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Innovation and ambition have been hallmarks of mergers and acquisitions activity this year, but there are some signs of weakness in private equity
Leveraged loans in stressed sectors like software carry refinancing risk
Ferrero International markets €300m deal
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Emerging market loans bankers have resigned themselves to an early summer lull, but hopes are rising for a trio of countries from the Middle East to help buoy volumes towards the back end of the year. -
Ithaca Energy and Imagina joined a recent spate of European leveraged finance issuers failing to price deals or amending documentation this week. Investors have said they are recalibrating their portfolios after bingeing on debt from certain sectors, despite generally strong appetite for speculative grade paper.
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Fosun Industrial Co has returned to the offshore market for a $550m three year senior term loan that will refinance debt taken on for an acquisition last year.
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Fiscal stimulus and economic growth should keep the credit cycle going for another two years, but the weakening of investor protections will damage loan recoveries when the market turns, said panellists at an IMN investors’ conference on CLOs and leveraged loans on Wednesday.
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The syndicated loan market could see the amount of Know Your Customer (KYC) checks cut down “drastically” in some areas of the deal process, after the UK money laundering prevention trade body published a Loan Market Association-drafted update to its guidance on the topic.
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The Schuldschein market has been left with more questions than answers after a Moody’s report claimed IFRS 9 rules, which force liable assets to be marked-to-market, could implicate "liquid" Schuldschein loans.
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