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Market stress so far confined to consumer credit and SMEs across region
Utilities metering company could refinance Schuldschein in coming months
Tight spreads keep Middle East borrowers in bond market, and away from loans
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Conditions are changing so fast with the coronavirus epidemic that each day could bring a change in sentiment, but for the time being leveraged finance is staying calm and continuing to function. There is more activity in this high risk corner of Europe’s capital markets than in any other, apart from sovereign, supranational and agency bonds.
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Siemens Gamesa, the Spanish wind turbine maker and servicer, has signed the first sustainability-linked factoring agreement in the country, bringing the hottest trend in lending to the usually staid world of niche trade finance. -
Europe's high grade loan bankers are expecting better things from the second quarter of the year, citing the resolution of a handful of macro events. But the rise of the Covid-19 coronavirus is hammering markets again on Wednesday, which has the potential to put companies off raising loan debt until the second half of the year.
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MUFG has put one of its co-heads of debt capital markets at risk of redundancy.
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Omani gas transportation company, Oman Gas Co, a branch of state-owned Oman Oil Co, has sold an $800m credit facility to local lenders.
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The Bank of England has said it intends to publish compounded Sonia averages and a Sonia index using a ‘shift’ calculation method by the end of July, subject to feedback on a series of questions it has asked sterling market participants. This follows the first deal using that method from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank last week.
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