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  • The poll to decide the winners of GlobalCapital's 14th Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards 2017 will close on Friday November 18.
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  • Finnish construction company YIT has completed a €200m deal with six core banks. The company saw one original lender replaced in an otherwise unchanged syndicate.
  • There has been a relentless downward pressure on the pricing of investment grade loans this year, as lenders choose to preserve the size and quality of their balance sheets even in the face of diminishing returns. Unfortunately, respite from margin compression is not coming any time soon, as volumes remain low and banks’ liquidity and hunger for assets show no signs of abating. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
  • Bayer may conduct the refinancing of its $56.9bn credit facility ahead of the closing of its acquisition of Monsanto, which is expected by the end of 2017, the firm said on Wednesday.
  • After weeks of caution and defensive trades, with tentative order books to match, the euro corporate bond market has swung back to notch a jumbo trade among its deal count. Meanwhile the loan market continues to search for a sane medium between leveraged loans' buying hysteria and investment grade’s catatonic summer.