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Taiwanese company Inventec has become a rare example of a company in Asia that has tweaked its loan structure to prepare for the discontinuation of Libor. Progress is still slow, but banks are slowly coming to grips with the big task ahead of them, as the market moves to a new lending benchmark. Pan Yue reports. -
Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), the central organisation for Ghana’s cocoa industry, is in the process of raising its annual syndicated loan, but bankers say the borrower is running into difficulty as lenders’ risk appetite weakens.
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Indomobil Finance Indonesia has launched a $240m borrowing into general syndication, changing its approach to the fundraising after market sentiment improved.
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Healthy financial systems should not rely on short sellers and journalists to expose accounting scandals at large, publicly listed companies. Regulators and auditors should have been the heroes of the Wirecard story but their inability to see what others saw plainly paints them as the villains in this edition of German corporate noir.
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Irish insurer Ardonagh has refinanced its whole capital structure and funded the acquisitions of insurance brokers Arachas and Bravo with the largest ever unitranche loan from a group of direct lending funds, plus a $500m syndicated dollar PIK toggle note.
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Cavotec, the Swiss maritime engineering group, has refinanced its €95m revolving credit facility with a new bank line, a month after reporting a more than 20% hit to its revenues from the coronavirus pandemic.
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