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  • Loans bankers are having a tough time at the moment, forced to reflect on a difficult year and struggling for new deals as bonus season looms. They are spending the last few weeks of December tweaking pitches — but most admit they have little confidence about a boom in 2020. Pan Yue reports.
  • BRI Multifinance Indonesia (BRI Finance) is tapping the offshore loan market for an up to $100m borrowing.
  • US private placement investors, who have long held firm on covenant structures, have started to notice early signs that their ranks may be breaking, and that 2020 may be a year when weaker covenant packages become more commonplace. But arrangers have resolutely dismissed this claim.
  • Commercial banks are in the driving seat for the highly levered financing of Cinven and Astorg’s purchase of testing business LGC Group. Regulatory issues are said to have kept some US banks away from the deal, but others question whether a large revolver commitment had more of an impact.
  • The syndicated loan market’s shift from Libor to risk-free rates has come under further scrutiny. Law firm Dentons released a report on Wednesday that highlights significant parts of the changeover that remain unresolved.
  • Company managements are becoming more alert to climate change and developing policies on it, new research on the transport sector shows. But the range is huge, and having a board that recognises the climate problem does not necessarily mean the company is decarbonising fast enough.