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Investment bank, like the group, wants to diversify outside France, and will lead with its strongest suit, real assets
Swiss power company issues only five and seven year floaters
Europe gets first large, general corporate revolving credit facility labelled green
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  • Syndicated lending volumes, particularly across emerging markets, have tumbled since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year. Though some had hopes that 2021 would yield more activity for lending desks, that optimism has been postponed to next year, as lenders say they simply cannot compete with other asset classes for business.
  • Trafigura, one of the world’s largest commodity traders, has closed a Schuldschein issue in a debut that surprised many in the market. The deal shows there is an appetite for unusual credits among some of the market’s investors. Trafigura’s group treasurer told GlobalCapital that this SSD is only the first from his company.
  • Mercuria has launched a US private placement deal, according to market sources. The privately-owned Swiss commodity trader is the third company to enter the PP market from Europe this year.
  • GlobalCapital spoke to Andre Hakkak, chief executive of White Oak Global Advisors, a fund specialising in SME, asset-based and direct loan origination, about the Covid crisis in the SME world, the coming end of government support, the end of Ebitda and the challenges of fundraising in a pandemic.
  • Greencoat Renewables, the Irish wind farm fund, has made an acquisition of around €60m acquisition in Finland, a few months after the company sold equity to free up debt for purchases.
  • One of Europe’s largest self-storage companies Shurgard has priced a new €300m US private placement, according to market sources.