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  • Some of Europe’s largest banks have taken large chunks of syndicated loan market share in EMEA this year, as the pandemic has prompted some institutions to flex their muscles and others to retreat.
  • It was a busy first quarter at Commerzbank’s corporate clients division, as companies rushed to secure liquidity and access Germany’s support programmes. But that division and the group as a whole made a loss in the quarter, results released on Wednesday showed, as cost of risk rose and valuations of derivative positions fell.
  • Europe’s high-grade corporate bond market this week proved that even the sectors hit the hardest by the pandemic can access funding. But investors are demanding compensation for the extra risk, and that premium is only expected to grow as motorcycle firm Harley-Davidson discovered when it tested the new wides, writes Mike Turner.
  • The coronavirus pandemic will test the complex relationship between bank loans and the fabled ancillary business supposed to make it all worthwhile. Some banks have provided heaps of extra cash for European clients to keep them alive and it has changed the shape of the loan market, with some banks ramping up market share. But will companies return the love when the time comes?
  • UK corporates leaned heavily on the loan market and the Bank of England's Covid Corporate Financing Facility this week, but lenders say they are seeing demand for crisis loans tailing off, as the initial rush of borrowers securing crisis funding has begun to die down.
  • Huge amounts of state aid for European airlines still might not be enough to stave off defaults and insolvencies after a European Commission guideline suggested the industry needs to stump up more than €9bn in short order to refund customers forced to miss flights.