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Centralisation, competitiveness and cyber-risk will be political flashpoints
Société Générale and Standard Chartered provided euro and yen tranches respectively in first World Bank-backed transaction involving the Japanese currency
HSBC, Mizuho and Standard Chartered coordinated deal which drew 10 lenders
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Chinese automobile financing retail transaction platform Yixin Group is tapping the loan market for a $150m borrowing, six months after listing through a HK$6.8bn ($867.2m) IPO in Hong Kong. -
Turkey’s Isbank has signed a $1.48bn-equivalent syndicated loan in line with the existing pricing benchmark for its compatriot peers, again showing that rating downgrades have little effect on loan borrowing rates for the country’s banking sector.
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Morocco has landed a €200m loan from the African Development Bank that will go towards the country’s agriculture industry, a sector that Standard & Poor’s recently said was part of the reason the sovereign’s credit rating remains “constrained”.
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Hermes has launched a European direct lending fund, as the investment manager looks to carve out part of a market that has recently reached record highs by volume.
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Speculative grade investors are being tempted by higher total returns in the leveraged loan market, but lack of supply and growing demand is favoring a loosening of default protection covenants.
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Egypt’s Banque Misr is looking to raise dollar funding from the loan market, according to lenders, continuing the trend of financial institutions in the country raising international bank debt.
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