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Liquidity event at American manager comes at fraught time for industry
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
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ION Analytics has returned to the market with a $1.9bn-equivalent loan package to fund the combination of Dealogic with Acuris. It tried to sell this deal before the US presidential election but pulled it in the face of weakening sentiment and concerns over political stability.
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Hong Kong-listed Sun Hung Kai Properties has returned to the loan market for a HK$5bn ($645m) club deal. It is testing lender appetite at a time of growing selectiveness around the sector. -
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International has cut pricing on a new $560m-equivalent multi-currency loan, as it counts on banks’ hunger to lend amid slow deal flow to push its transaction past the finish line.
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BlackRock wants to move a long way towards catching up with leading investors in its response to climate change, its CEO Larry Fink indicated in his annual letter to chief executives on Tuesday. BlackRock stopped short of setting a net zero carbon emissions target for its $8.7tr of assets under management, or committing to swift decarbonisation. But it did publish a ‘net zero commitment’ saying it would “support the goal of net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner”.
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Direct lenders and debt funds have always pitched themselves as being more suitable partners for businesses than banks, bondholders, or other institutional lenders. When the going gets tough, they can be quicker to waive covenants and offer new money than a less concentrated creditor group. But this also puts them in pole position to take the keys from a business should things go wrong — which we may see happen this year.
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Some small UK housing associations are preparing to launch private placements, breathing life into the product after a month of next to no deal flow.
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