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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
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Interserve, one of the largest outsourcing companies in the UK, plans to file for administration after shareholders rejected a proposed debt for equity swap at a general meeting on Friday. -
Taishin Financial Leasing (China) is about to close its debut offshore loan at $100m. It is now just waiting for one of the lenders to get approval.
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Lufthansa, the German airline, entered the Schuldschein market on Tuesday, only accepting orders from lenders bidding via online marketplace VC Trade. Participants are watching closely, to see whether investors will be persuaded to move into a digital world.
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The lacklustre EMEA high grade loan market saw a ray of hope on Thursday, when president of the European Council Donald Tusk called for a “long extension” to the UK’s Brexit deadline.
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The leveraged finance market is feasting on the $10.2bn financing for the buyout of Johnson Controls’ batteries business by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. Levfin players believe its success is in part due to a lack of jumbo supply in the US prior to the trade.
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Both the nature and timing of the European Union’s planned Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities are in doubt. Conservative members of the European Parliament this week voted down an ambitious draft of the bill, and some nation states appear reluctant to push the Taxonomy bill through to the statute book before the European elections in May, writes Jon Hay.
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