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Lagardère, the French book publisher and travel retail company, has signed a €465m short term government-backed loan and extended its revolving credit facility, as the company shuffles its loan liabilities amid a plunge in revenue. -
UK stationery retailer Paperchase has submitted a notice of intent to appoint administrators, as it struggles to cope with the effects of lockdowns and disruption to Christmas sales.
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Europe’s loans bankers are trying to persuade the few corporates that have not yet refinanced the emergency liquidity facilities they took out from the middle of last year, as the coronavirus pandemic hit, with revolving credit facilities. But there is widespread concern that the bond market is proving too alluring an alternative.
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Craig Meisner, the former head of loan markets for Lloyds Banking Group for North America, has landed a new job at ING Capital.
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Schuldschein bankers want to make sure last year’s drop in international borrowers was a temporary symptom of the coronavirus pandemic. But with restrictions on travel as well as government support programmes rolling into this year, there is little optimism that non-German issuers will return soon.
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With rising Covid-19 infection rates sparking new social restrictions, Europe’s high grade loans bankers say they are ready to once again provide the vast amounts of short term funding to corporates they did last March as lockdowns swept Europe for the first time. But many expect borrowers to lean more heavily on the bond markets this time.
