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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.
  • King’s College London has launched a private placement debt deal, according to market sources: the first UK university transaction for more than a year.
  • Europe’s ESG debt market boomed last year with a record portion of the bond and syndicated loan market financing socially responsible deals, according to new research. But despite the growing supply, pricing still has further to tighten.
  • Indian agrochemical firm UPL Corp has opened the country’s first sustainability-linked loan into syndication.
  • International Public Partnerships, a UK listed infrastructure investment company, has refinanced a £400m loan to extend the maturity and switch the margin from the Libor benchmark, as lenders hope that other borrowers do the same rather than cram into the second half of the year.
  • German commercial real estate company DIC Asset has launched its second Schuldschein, for an initial target of €100m, according to a term sheet distributed to investors. The debt’s margins will be tied to the proportion of green assets the borrower has on its balance sheet. Most notably, there is a ‘fast track’ settlement date for banks needing to secure assets before an ECB funding deadline that falls at the end of this month.