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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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Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, is due to close a $2bn loan refinancing in coming weeks, according to bankers familiar with the deal. -
The market for green loans has blossomed in the year since the publication of the Green Loan Principles (GLP). Bank of Communications this week was the latest borrower to add to this burgeoning market, as bankers predict rising supply, more syndicated deals and greater sophistication in the way the GLPs and other lending principles are used for financing. Pan Yue reports.
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Nomura has put at risk a number of senior bankers in its Americas investment banking operation and refurbished its management team as part of a $1bn plan to cut costs. Senior names in M&A, leveraged finance, Latin America and risk solutions are leaving.
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Conglomerate Alicorp sold the second global nuevo sol bond to emerge from Peru in a week on Wednesday, copying the execution pattern that worked well for Telefónica del Perú last week and pricing inside its lower-rated compatriot.
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A study presented to the European Commission on competition in European loan syndication found no evidence of collusion and no need for further investigations. Indeed, for most bankers, the balance of power seems so tilted to borrowers that it has helped erode deal documents and yields in recent years.
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Thames Water’s latest crop of holding company private placement debt issues contains language to protect investors from the effect of a Labour government — and particularly leader Jeremy Corbyn's vow to renationalise the water companies. Debt issued under the new documents features a ‘nationalisation event’ that would make it repayable immediately. Owen Sanderson and Silas Brown report.
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