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• Forth Ports docks into US PP market

  

  Forth Ports, the port operator with headquarters in Edinburgh, is marketing prospective US private placements this week.

  • 03:15 PM

• Acquisition hungry Better Collective ups bank line

  

  Denmark’s Better Collective has increased the size of its bank funding, as the sports betting and gambling software developer looks to spend on acquisitions.

  • 02:15 PM

• Ameropa grows bigger revolver

  

  Switzerland’s Ameropa has signed a $600m revolving credit facility, with the privately owned agricultural business bumping up the size of its syndicated bank line and bank group.

  • 02:00 PM

• Loans in brief 2: June 21, 2019

  BNP Paribas to lead buyout debt for Drahi’s purchase of Sotheby’s - Schuldschein rarity as Agrana markets fixed, floating notes at different margins - Rail Cargo Austria rolls into Schuldschein market - Citi preps refinancing for Befesa after Triton’s exit

  • 20 Jun 2019

• Loans in brief: June 21, 2019

  Rodenstock gets loan support after business turnaround — ICBC London mandates for Chinese green loan first — Nokia dials in ESG-linked loan — SVR Group builds on existing loan maturity — SCA goes local for bank loans

  • 20 Jun 2019

• Barren loan market faces staffing reckoning

  

  Five senior members of ING's emerging markets and loans teams in London have left the bank, as loans desks across London feel the strain of a 43% fall in business after an already tough year.

  • 20 Jun 2019

• SCA goes local for bank loans

  

  Sweden’s Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) has signed credit lines totalling Skr6bn ($638m), though the bulk of facility for the timber, pulp and paper company will remain undrawn.

  • 20 Jun 2019

• SVR Group builds on existing loan maturity

  

  Finland’s SRV Group has extended its €100m revolving credit facility, as full refinancing operations remain elusive in what is proving to be a tough loans market in EMEA this year.

  • 20 Jun 2019

• Schuldschein rarity as Agrana markets fixed, floating notes at different margins

  Agrana, a food producer headquartered in Vienna, is marketing a Schuldschein where its floating notes are some 20bp inside the fixed note offering. Two market participants said they had never seen this before.

  • 20 Jun 2019

• Nokia dials in ESG-linked loan

  

  Crossover credit Nokia is the latest borrower to switch its bank debt to a sustainability-linked margin, with the Finnish phone company also lengthening the tenor of its revolving credit lines.

  • 19 Jun 2019

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