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Having to rate money-guzzling Anthropic and OpenAI will test the agencies’ nerve
Banks back increase of the offer's cash component for Tim by almost a fifth as uptake lags
Centralisation, competitiveness and cyber-risk will be political flashpoints
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Qatar’s Doha Bank extended a $575m loan that was scheduled to mature at the end of last year but it did not extend the whole amount as the deal's Chinese lenders pulled out. -
Asia’s leveraged finance bankers started the year hopeful that volumes would pick up. However, US regulators have already undermined those hopes, blocking Ant Financial’s high-profile acquisition of local firm MoneyGram, calling into question the chances of further outbound deals from China. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
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Activity in the Hong Kong loan market has made a robust start to the year, with a big loan for Chow Tai Fook entering syndication.
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Economic conditions are ripe for the mergers and acquisitions that drive capital markets. Into this mix comes a potential US tax reform more radical than any for decades. This is bound to tilt boardroom decisions about strategy — if nothing else, US CEOs could suddenly have more cash back at HQ than they know what to do with. Jon Hay and Sam Kerr report.
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Refresco’s $1.25bn acquisition of Cott’s drinks bottling business raises monopoly concerns, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said this week. But market sources see a quick fix ahead.
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Citi finished 2017 in its highest ever position in the EMEA league tables, leading from the front in ECM. David Rothnie asks whether it can topple JP Morgan.
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