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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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Kartesia, the European direct lender based in London, has provided unitranche funding to Latvian glass coatings company GroGlass. As larger direct lenders are not active in the region, Kartesia and other smaller institutions see an opportunity in their absence.
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Vodafone, the UK-based telecoms group, is planning a raft of capital market activity to finance its €18.4bn acquisition of Liberty Global’s cable assets in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, including a second try of the ground-breaking mandatorily convertible bonds it issued in 2016. -
The European leveraged finance primary market has been idling this week, with less than €1bn of paper on offer. Backstage, however, things have been buzzing.
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The volatility and widening of corporate bond spreads in Europe since February has led many bankers to comment that the balance of power has shifted from issuers to investors. Investors, however, suggest otherwise.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is in the midst of its first annual meeting in the Middle East, and its president has again floated the idea of another big expansion of the bank’s remit to include sub-Saharan Africa.
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The riskiest end of the US leveraged loan market has outperformed the wider loan market in the year to date, although investors are starting to push back on pricing in some instances.
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