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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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Bestway Global Holding this week became the latest Chinese debutante to find the offshore loan market tough going, falling short of its intended deal size. Debut names will face worse market access this year and will need to rely upon guarantees, onshore banking relationships and the reputation of their industry sector to have the best chance of securing international money, writes Pan Yue. -
Ghana Cocoa Board has signed its first sustainability-linked loan facility, kick-starting this year’s environmental, social and governance financing in emerging markets. The deal emerges as a trio of global trade bodies have launched a set of standards to codify this fast-growing market segment, which some financiers are still trying to come to terms with. Mariam Meskin and Mike Turner report.
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Continental launched a Schuldschein on Wednesday and, judging by the arranging banks, market participants believe the German tyres and car parts group has its eye on German co-operative and savings bank investors.
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A trio of global loan trade bodies has launched the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles, intended to codify the rapidly growing market of bank facilities with margins tied to how the borrower performs under sustainability metrics.
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Bankers and investors are running out of superlatives to describe investor demand in Europe’s corporate bond market, as each deal seems to push further than the last into extreme territory.
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Some investors are beginning to fear that the rally in emerging markets is running out of rope. Threats to Chinese growth could carry over and damage the prospects of emerging markets economies, according to Jupiter Asset Management.
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