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Jardine Matheson, one of Hong Kong’s oldest business giants, is planning to fund a $5.5bn acquisition of a minority stake in its subsidiary through a combination of loan and internal cash.
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Met Group, the Swiss energy trading company, has signed a €120m term loan, increasing the size of its term debt and using some of the same banks that provided revolving credit facilities last month.
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The secondary Schuldschein market, typically something of a backwater, has become a torrent of activity and is now busier than the product’s primary market, according to several sources, as banks rush to buy assets ahead of an ECB deadline for cheap funding on March 31. However, there are fewer banks deleveraging from their risk-weighted assets, and many more buyers than sellers.
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Enel, the Italian energy company, has signed a €10bn sustainability-linked revolving credit facility, taking the title for the largest such deal that was held by Anheuser-Busch InBev for less than a month.
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German semi-conductor company Infineon Technologies has launched a US private placement, according to market sources.
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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has set an expiration date for 35 Libor benchmarks to be December 31 — which loan market participants hope will force some corporates to engage more fully with the transition to risk-free rates.