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Absa, FirstRand and Standard Bank were MLAs in first deal after private equity exit
Global warming is coming for portfolios everywhere. Good luck finding any escape
The transaction attracted five lenders and is the first data centre infrastructure project backed by the UK's National Wealth Fund
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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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FACC, the Austrian aerospace components company, has amended the financial covenants on its syndicated loan, as large chunks of the EMEA airline sector continue to renegotiate debt tests.
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Credit Suisse has hired the former head of Bank of America’s European leveraged finance capital markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital.
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The polite world of sustainable finance has collided with the ugly reality of politics in the past week, as open strife has broken out over the European Union’s sustainable finance legislation, especially the Taxonomy. Conservative and progressive elements are battling over a host of issues, above all whether gas power should ever be classed as sustainable, and the validity and even legality of the Taxonomy is being called into question.
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Schuldschein investors are preparing for a debt restructuring cycle, with "more than a handful" of borrowers said by lenders to be in difficulty. As Germany changed its restructuring laws at the start of the year, some are confident the market can weather the storm.
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