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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
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Aston Martin, the British luxury carmaker, has arranged a new financing package to strengthen its balance sheet and cash reserves as it embarks on an ambitious new partnership with German car giant Mercedes-Benz, to start producing electric cars. The bond leg, however, was launched into a difficult market, with the Crossover widening sharply during the first day of bookbuilding.
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Formosa Plastics Corp has shortlisted six banks to arrange a multi-tranche financing for its Vietnam business. -
Asian loans bankers are calling for relaxed restrictions on green and sustainability-linked loans, hoping for more business opportunities from the sector. But this approach could harm the development of the market in the long-term.
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The threat to biodiversity is moving up the agenda of financial markets, but banks are woefully unprepared, a new study has found — in fact, they are actively financing what scientists believe is a mass extinction of species.
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UK hospitality companies have been avid users of the US private placement market in the past, but since the coronavirus pandemic began, their businesses have been up-ended, with pubs subject to curfews, social distancing and closures. Fortunately, US PP investors have largely followed bank lenders in opting for leniency, waiving covenants or switching to monitoring minimum levels of liquidity. One firm even managed to raise new debt this summer.
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Loan syndicate desk heads at major European lenders are expecting to make budget this year, but the bulk of their desks’ profits will not be coming from the usual sources of loan income nor the torrent of bridge loans that hit the market in the Spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
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