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Terna, the Italian transmission company, has signed a €100m sustainability-linked facility, marking the borrower’s third outing into the socially-conscious debt markets in recent weeks. -
The Vietnam subsidiary of Taiwanese leasing and financing firm Chailease Finance Co has boosted its loan size to $60m.
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Loan market bankers disagree about the impact that the new social revolving credit facility structure will have on the European market — though the first-of-its-kind Covid-19 facility for Suez will likely remain a rarity, after the Loan Market Association said it is not looking at producing documentation for the structure.
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Institutional investors in private placements (PPs) have signalled their appetite for borrowers beyond their typical stables throughout the coronavirus pandemic. But this week’s transaction from Vanguard Group — the largest in the market’s history — showed the size of funding available, as buyers demand bigger deals. Silas Brown reports.
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Companies across Europe are shifting their aspirations from surviving the coronavirus pandemic to making the most of the economic opportunities it may present. Both loan and bond bankers are seeing more requests to help clients fund M&A. In the last few weeks, multiple companies have signed loans linked to acquisitions and more are expected after the summer.
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A glut of syndicated loans has been signed among European high grade borrowers that are for general corporate and refinancing purposes — a sign, said loans bankers, that the market is returning to business as usual for the rest of the year, marking what will at least be a change from the frantic emergency capital raising which began in spring.
