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Deal refinances €1.5bn transaction from 2022 while providing new money and is sustainability-linked
Volumes and deals similar to last year, when the market grew by 13% year-on-year to an annual record
The German toy production company doubled the size of its RCF but maintained its banking consortium
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International banks should stand their ground and continue lending to Russian borrowers. The weak, ineffective sanctions that the US rolled out last week have not affected Russia’s creditworthiness and some even argue that investors in the country face fewer risks than they did two weeks ago. -
Bankers and investors have expressed their irritation at the US's new set of sanctions on Russia. The latest punitive actions stop US financial institutions from extending debt financing in the primary market to the sovereign.
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More borrowers are eschewing underwritten loans, causing frustration and concern among banks as their usually quiet corner of the market faces huge structural changes.
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With emerging market loan bankers puzzling over what the latest round of US sanctions against Russia mean for syndicated lending in the country — an activity already well muzzled by proscriptions — Moscow bankers were defiant that they would be ineffective.
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The volume of smaller investment grade syndicated loans in the UK has shrunk sharply as a proportion of overall deals in the region, though some lenders are still pinning their hopes on sub-£250m trades being a P&L sheet saviour.
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Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) has thrown open a €2.2bn-equivalent loan to support its acquisition of a minority stake in German automaker Daimler.
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