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  • ArcelorMittal, the steel company headquartered in Luxembourg, has amended and extended a $1bn revolving credit facility via its US business.
  • US online booking company Booking Holdings has signed a $2bn revolving credit facility, with a slew of domestic and global banks joining the trade.
  • Asset manager Pemberton has raised €3.2bn for a direct lending fund focusing on Europe’s mid-market. This is a few months after it raised €1bn for another European direct lending platform, Strategic Credit Opportunities Strategy (SCOS), which has higher expectations on returns.
  • Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) (USI), a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, is making its debut in the offshore market for a $300m-equivalent loan.
  • Agents active in private debt markets in the UK are growing increasingly frustrated by a crop of advisory firms muscling in on their market share, often arranging deals without the need an investment bank. Some bankers allege that advisory firms don’t have the capacity to price deals effectively, and also that some do not have appropriate regulatory cover from the US regulators to pitch investors there legally.
  • Banks like Goldman Sachs have positioned corporate broking as part of a wider, integrated offering to clients — a strategy that appears to be the future of this traditional UK line of business, writes David Rothnie.