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Margins widen as lenders weigh up AI disruption to portfolio companies
Market still open to strategic mergers, but deal execution more selective
Borrower's sustainability credentials made a green lending a better fit, says ING
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Finnish chemical company Kemira has signed a €400m revolving credit facility, becoming the latest firm to switch its bank debt to sustainability-linked margins. -
HNA Group’s Hong Kong subsidiary, CWT International, appeared to default on a secured Hong Kong dollar loan on Wednesday. Although the company has had debt problems in the past year, many bankers were still surprised by the default and said more thorough background checks will be carried out on Chinese borrowers in future. Pan Yue reports.
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Two subsidiaries of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp are in the syndicated loan market raising a China onshore facility and an offshore deal respectively.
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Trading of Saudi Aramco’s $12bn bond has slowed considerably since it was priced on Tuesday last week, but all five tranches have failed to rebound to reoffer, and the longer ones were 1.5 points down by Wednesday afternoon this week.
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UBS has reorganised its debt capital markets business, following the decision of global head Amir Hoveyda to step down from his role. It will merge leveraged finance and DCM, with David Slade heading the combined group in EMEA.
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Sustainable finance is bubbling with exciting new initiatives. But making people feel good is not enough. Activity needs to produce results, and so far there is more noise than movement. The tone is far too sedate — it needs some hard core activism to break the torpor.
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