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Tightening trend in private credit pricing has reversed since April 2, but reliability is funds' trump card
The asset manager sees higher demand than ever as direct lending proves solid during a crisis
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Indian company Tata Steel has returned to the loan market. It is in talks with banks for a £200m ($276m) financing to support its UK business. -
Only HSBC and RBC Capital Markets are underwriting Fortress’s £9.5bn bid to take UK supermarket chain Morrisons private, while only Morgan Stanley is advising Apollo on its potential rival bid. This leaves plenty of scope for other banks to team up with sponsors to make rival offers.
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The European Commission is on the verge of launching its new sustainable finance strategy — the first major fresh initiative since the Sustainable Finance Action Plan of 2018. GlobalCapital has seen a leaked draft, which reveals that the EU will explore whether to create official labels for transition bonds and sustainability-linked bonds, whether to regulate green mortgages, and how to reinforce investors’ responsibility for the effects of their investments.
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In a report on the state of UK private credit, Pemberton predicts further concentration in direct lending, as borrowers opt for established players over upstart funds.
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Natasha Harrison, the heir apparent to fabled law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, told GlobalCapital that while she was not expecting a collapse in corporate credit coming out of the coronavirus, there will be big opportunities for sophisticated distressed debt investors.
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BNP Paribas has retained its place at the top of the EMEA loan league table for the first half of 2021, but its market share is much smaller than for the same period last year.
