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Software loan sell-offs and the Iran war have caused US and European loans to price differently
Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
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Russian borrowers are swarming the loan market despite a broader decline in emerging market loan volumes. Borrowers are pushing for tighter margins and longer tenors, as they grapple with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and fresh US sanction threats. -
German semi-conductor business Infineon, which is Europe’s largest chip maker, has sold $1.3bn of US private placements, according to several market sources, in the largest trade from Europe in almost five years.
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BNP Paribas has leapfrogged JP Morgan to become the top bookrunner in EMEA loans this quarter, with the French bank almost doubling its market share. But this increase has yet to play out in the bank’s bond bookrunning activities in the region.
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Philippine company SPi Global, an outsourcing services provider, is understood to be seeking a $300m to $400m loan, some of which will go towards funding a dividend recapitalisation.
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The financial markets’ stance on climate change has taken a stride forward as 43 asset managers with $23tr of assets including some of the biggest such as BlackRock and Vanguard have joined the Net Zero Asset Managers’ Initiative. A critical mass of investors is now committed to reducing carbon emissions in their portfolios to zero, meaning that companies can be in no doubt which way they have to go if they want to maximise their potential investor base.
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Zambia and the IMF will resume negotiations on an extended credit facility package, having missed the first deadline.
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