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Divisions deepen over multilateral development banks’ climate commitments
Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
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The City of London Corporation, via its endowment fund The City’s Cash, has launched first US private placements (PP), roadshowing the prospective notes this week and next. The funds will be partly used to finance the consolidation of the Billingsgate, Smithfield and Spitalfields wholesale food markets at a new site in Dagenham, Essex. -
Hexion, an Ohio-based speciality chemicals company, has raised $1.65bn in financing across loans and bonds, giving it a new capital structure and allowing it to repay its debtor-in-possession loan as it emerges from Chapter 11 protection. Dollar investors proved stronger supporters than euro buyers for the firm, as it cut down the planned euro tranche.
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Luxembourg’s SES has refinanced its revolving credit facility, trimming at the margin of the €1.2bn deal as banks piled into the satellite operator’s transaction.
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Phil Lipton, a veteran banker who is a well-known figure in Asia’s syndicated loans market, has left HSBC, bringing an end to a 15-year career at the firm. Pan Yue and Rashmi Kumar report.
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Country Garden seeks second borrowing in six months – UAF taps two banks for HK$1.6bn – Deutsche arranges $190m for Shangshi – Pakistan sovereign deal open – Malakoff woos banks to refi – IRFC pulls into Samurai market
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Buzzi Unicem has returned to the Schuldschein market, looking for at least €100m of debt in four maturities. The pricing levels are tighter than on the Italian cement and concrete group’s debut Schuldschein in 2017. Bankers thought this was thanks to investors' growing familiarity with the borrower, as well as a rating upgrade from Standard & Poor's.
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