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The US bank has emerged from its restructuring to record impressive market share gains following a reboot of its financial sponsor and leveraged finance businesses
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A brutal market for auto suppliers and a string of dividend deals have left Lumileds, a maker of LED lighting and an Apollo portfolio company, staring at a leverage level which could top 14 times by year-end, according to Moody’s. The company’s loan saw the largest price fall in Europe over the last quarter, according to IHS Markit, and is now bid around 47, compared with 70 in June. -
Leveraged credit investors are keen to put cash to work this week, and arrangers see a plausible window to execute deals. Opportunistic and strategic financings are both on offer. UK issuers are well represented, nipping through a window before political uncertainty grips the market over the Brexit deadline at the end of the month.
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The Ministry of Finance of the Lao PDR is inviting banks to join a €135m five year loan that Credit Suisse pre-funded in June.
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India’s PNB Housing Finance is breaking a five-year absence from the loan market, launching a new $75m deal into syndication.
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HSBC is reorganising its corporate finance coverage and sending the co-head of the business, Peter Enns, to Asia as part of a global revamp under Greg Guyett, the bank’s new global banking boss.
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Virgin Media launched a refinancing of its $3.4bn senior secured term loan B, with a combined offering across sterling bonds, and euro and dollar loans. The move comes two weeks after Swiss telco Salt proved that bonds could price meaningfully tighter than leveraged loans for the right issuer, and Virgin also saw a strong result.
