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Lloyds Bank has replaced Ian Baggott, its head of loan markets. -
The initial public offering for Axa’s US business raised less than targeted. This prompted market debate about whether the French insurer is on track in raising cash for its acquisition of XL Group and whether it would need to raise more debt, something denied by the insurer.
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Kartesia, the European direct lender based in London, has provided unitranche funding to Latvian glass coatings company GroGlass. As larger direct lenders are not active in the region, Kartesia and other smaller institutions see an opportunity in their absence.
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Vodafone, the UK-based telecoms group, is planning a raft of capital market activity to finance its €18.4bn acquisition of Liberty Global’s cable assets in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, including a second try of the ground-breaking mandatorily convertible bonds it issued in 2016.
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The board of Shire, the pharmaceuticals company, has given the thumbs-up to a £46bn takeover offer by Japanese rival Takeda, with $30.85bn of loans already lined up for the purchase.
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US firm International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) has agreed to buy rival Frutarom in a debt-backed $7.1bn transaction, in what will be the second largest ever acquisition of an Israeli company.
