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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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The Schuldschein market attracts a diverse mix of investors, with different tastes and needs. Amid the push and pull of a burgeoning market, the burning question is whether each of these differing characters will remain content — or whether some may get pushed out, as the market develops and changes shape. Silas Brown reports.
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The Schuldschein market attracted a record number of international issuers last year, and swept aside other forms of European private debt in the process. Now it must confront a bigger beast — a credit-hungry unrated public bond market — while simultaneously absorbing the impact of the European Central Bank winding down its bond purchasing programme. Silas Brown reports.
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The thriving modern private debt market has germinated and grown in a greenhouse — the post-crisis shrivelling of banks and central bank stimulus of debt markets. But already, the banks are coming back. Next, central bank support will disappear — and sooner or later there will be a recession. Will private debt markets cope? Jon Hay reports.
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London-listed Ophir Energy has agreed a bridge loan to back its $205m acquisition of southeast Asian assets from Australian oil and gas company Santos. -
India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm has launched the biggest Samurai loan from an Asian company into general syndication, as it looks to leverage on Japanese onshore liquidity.
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China’s Kingboard Chemical Holdings has returned to the offshore loan market for a HK$6bn ($764m) borrowing, less than six months after signing its last syndicated transaction.
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