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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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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has sent off invitations to its annual financing for its cocoa harvest amid concerns it may struggle to repay its previous loan. -
Romanian supermarket chain Profi is in talks with banks to add to its €305m loan, signed in March last year.
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European leveraged finance investors are expecting lower deal volumes and wider spreads in the primary market after an exceptionally busy and expensive 2017.
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A pair of gatecrashers have burst into Temenos’ £1.4bn bid for UK trading technology firm Fidessa, with one party offering a 5% premium to the existing deal from the Swiss banking software company.
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Commodity trader Glencore has ramped up the size of its short term revolver by almost $4bn between syndication launch and signing, with dozens of banks piling into the refinancing exercise in the latest example of deal starved lenders scrabbling for places to put money to work.
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Schuldschein market participants expect an uninspiring pipeline for the next few months as the hangover of 2017's pre-funding spree is felt in the first half of this year. But traditional arrangers hope the itch to win mandates is satisfied by a search for borrowers from new regions, and not a scurry down the credit spectrum.
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