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Non-bank lenders seem more confident than banks in the short term
New facility smaller than the original but 20% larger than the launch amount
In Europe loans are the key to opening ancillary business while in the Middle East relationships should cap premiums
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Ed Welsh will join HSBC in November as global head of business services, although his work is expected to be heavily centred around the UK, as the bank ramps up efforts to gain market share among the country’s biggest listed firms. -
Macquarie’s Green Investment Group has secured debt financing to back its acquisition of a 40% stake in East Anglia One, in a deal that values the Iberdrola-owned wind farm at an enterprise value of £4.1bn.
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Highgate School in north London has closed a £60m US private placement, joining a clutch of private schools using the instrument for long term financing.
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China unveiled a new benchmark rate, the loan prime rate (LPR), for loans this week. While hailed as a groundbreaking step towards making its benchmark lending rate more market-driven, the mechanism for determining the LPR in fact grants the central bank more control over the country’s interest rates.
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Alastair Blackman, formerly a top media investment banker at Deutsche Bank, will be developing relationships with the heads of UK firms on behalf of Barclays from next month.
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Far East Consortium International (FEC) is in talks with banks to raise a bridge facility of around HK$1bn ($127m) to support its acquisition of a land plot in Kai Tak, this site of Hong Kong's old airport, from the government.
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