Syndicated Loans

• John Kavanagh

Lender Metrics Credit Partners has taken a big step up in the corporate finance market, announcing that it will acquire Investec’s Australian corporate loan portfolio. read more

• John Kavanagh

After being in a standstill agreement with its lender for six months and missing two refinancing deadlines, debt buyer Pioneer Credit has finally found new lenders. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Syndicated lending in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) in the first half of 2020 plunged almost 17 per cent to an eight-year low of US$196 billion, while deal counts dropped 19 per cent year-on-year, according.. read more

• John Kavanagh

Finance company Axsesstoday has turned to the little-used simple corporate bond regime to raise A$55 million of funds. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Thomson Reuters reports Chinese and European lenders have grown their commitments to the Australasia loan market over the last five years. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

In a lean first quarter for syndicated bank loans in the Asia-Pacific region, volume (ex-Japan) dropped to US$80.5 billion from 176 deals, down by 17 per cent from the $96.9 billion raised through 359.. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

The syndicated and club loan market in Australia and New Zealand - and indeed much of the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) - has come to a grinding halt, based on Thomson Reuters year to date APAC stati.. read more

• Banking Day staff

Syndicated loan volume in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) for the 2017 calendar year continued to decline, along with the number of transactions, but there was a rise in both volume and numb.. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Monthly statistics from Thomson Reuters for the Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) loan market show the volume of syndicated and club loans to the end of August 2017 are at their lowest since 2012. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

The Thomson Reuters Asia Pacific loan market statistics for the first four months of this year show 240 deals closed - the lowest since April 2012. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

A business model for yet another fintech style operation, aimed at stealing a few more pieces of the banking sector's lunch, is being developed by an ex-Goldman Sachs banker. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

An early cut on the Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) loan market shows that between January and November 2016 the amount lent declined by 6.2 per cent, compared to the same time last year. read more

• John Kavanagh

Credit supply fell across 2016, in syndicated lending anyway. What's left is property heavy. read more

• Banking Day staff

Pepper Group has sold a A$200 million portfolio of mortgages - its third such sale this year. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

There has been a move to fewer but larger syndicated and club loans in Australia and New Zealand this year. read more

• Banking Day staff

Origin Energy has extended a A$4.5 billion syndicated bank debt facility, due to mature in December 2018, until 2021. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Delinquencies among the pools of Australian motor vehicle loans underlying asset-backed securities are heading towards the levels seen during the GFC, warns Moody's Investors Service. read more

• Banking Day staff

ING is under fire for a plan to cut 7,000 jobs in Europe and invest instead in online banking services, and Thomson Reuters reports the Asia Pacific syndicated loan market continued to shrink over the.. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

The Climate Bonds Initiative has presented its 5th annual State of the Market report, commissioned by HSBC. According to the notes introducing this year's report, it "discovers and quantifies bonds th.. read more

• Banking Day staff

The refinancing task is emerging as an unacceptable risk for real estate investment trusts in the Asian region, with banks across the region cutting their exposures to single name borrowers. read more