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Team led by Jenny Edwards hires more than 20 professionals for its April launch
Commerzbank arranges $1.1bn deal for supply of vital raw materials
Demand to invest in the low carbon transition is growing fast, but strategies are very diverse
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Jumbo, a privately owned supermarket chain with stores in Belgium and the Netherlands, has closed a debut Schuldschein at €200m, according to market sources. New deals are proving popular, as low levels of deal flow cannot slake investors' thirst for assets. -
Indian agrochemical company UPL Corp has received strong response for its sustainability-linked loan during general syndication, allowing it to increase the size to $750m.
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, and Clarion Housing, the UK housing association, became the latest companies to sign loans using risk-free rates instead of Libor, as more deals are signing that ditch the scandal-ridden benchmark from day one.
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Investors appeared happy to tolerate soaring leverage in favoured sectors, such as tech or pharma, on Thursday, while Covid-19 recovery candidates are beginning to look expensive, as much of the rally that began in November has played out.
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Iberdrola, the Spanish utility, has signed a €2.5bn sustainability-linked loan, becoming the first Spanish company to use risk-free rates as a benchmark instead of Libor.
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