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Conflict marks inflection point for investment banks as syndicated loan exposure and crushed bond fees come under scrutiny
Investors eye 2028, 2031, 2032 as big years for loan maturities
Even leveraged deals still being underwritten, though banks are selective
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Banks are going to play an outsized role in softening the economic impact of Covid-19 in the euro area. -
With the Schuldschein having grown into one of Europe’s foremost private debt markets, Asian and European banks have swarmed to it on the hunt for implied investment grade companies to lend to. But at the corners of the market, new characters are edging into the picture. According to several market sources, hedge funds and US investment banks have started to work their way into a still rare element of the centuries-old German market — distressed debt. Silas Brown investigates.
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The leveraged loan market has taken a leg wider as coronavirus fears sweep the capital markets. But the primary markets are sucking up the larger discounts and fatter margins and forging ahead, with Polynt-Reichold, Genesis Care, and Inspired Education pressing on and printing deals this week.
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Pollen Street Capital and the board of an investment trust it advises are locked in a fight over the potential sale of the investment trust to Waterfall Asset Management, with the board describing Pollen Street’s data room as “of no meaningful use whatsoever and a complete waste of time”.
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Some European high grade borrowers are postponing their loan plans, as the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on financial markets.
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British American Tobacco is considering switching its existing revolving credit facility from Libor to Sonia, following Royal Dutch Shell’s trail-blazing Sofr-linked syndicated loan last year. The move would demonstrate a more galvanised move away from Libor in the loan market.
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