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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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UPC, part of Liberty Global’s European telecoms empire, is marketing dollar and euro term loan ‘B’s to pay off a $1.14bn issue of 5.375% senior secured notes. The refinancing comes only a few months after Sunrise cancelled its takeover of UPC’s Swiss business — to the disappointed of Liberty.
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Loans bankers pride themselves on not succumbing to the knee-jerk reactions of their colleagues on the bonds desk. But the Libor transition is highlighting serious flaws in this approach and it is causing alarm among corporate treasurers.
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Jens Lindqvist and Brough Ransom have moved from N+1 Singer to Investec to cover healthcare. -
Olaf Diaz-Pintado has been named head of Goldman Sachs’s cross markets group for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while the bank has appointed new regional heads for its financial and strategic investors group.
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Ghana Cocoa Board, the central organisation for Ghana’s cocoa industry, will close a $600m syndicated loan this week, according to bankers. This loan is the borrower’s third outing in 12 months.
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Corporate debt advisers have joined the call for lenders to make clear their plans for the transition away from Libor, as frustration takes hold among some bank clients that a solution still seems far away.
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