Banking

Our Banking section analyses deal structures within project finance and Islamic finance as well as changing terms in the loan market. For instance, exclusive coverage of the LMA’s intercreditor agreement in Europe, cov-lites’ changing structures in the US, and innovative project financing in Brazil.  Subscribers receive a regular email alert.

Lending

  • Eurozone: tips for establishing repayment currency

    14 Feb 2012

    An analysis of a loan’s jurisdiction, governing law, currency of payment and place of payment can give clues to the likely currency in which a loan must be repaid in a redenomination

  • How lenders are protecting eurozone periphery loans

    14 Feb 2012

    Lenders to peripheral eurozone countries are including euro definitions and tightening up the currency wording in their facility agreements to offset the risks of a redenomination

  • Bankers lobbying CBRC for secondary loans rule change

    31 Jan 2012

    Syndicated loan market participants in Hong Kong and China are lobbying the China Banking Regulatory Commission to change “onerous” secondary loans trading guidelines

  • Colfax financing first sets UK Takeover Code precedent

    31 Jan 2012

    A market first secured credit facility for Colfax has revealed that the UK Takeover Panel will require disclosure of flex rates for future leveraged financings

  • How European loan docs will change for NY market

    31 Jan 2012

    As the European loan market continues to stall, borrowers are turning to the US market to for LBO financings. But IFLR can reveal large discrepancies between European and NY loan documentation

  • APLMA: CNH loans need more than Hibor

    19 Jan 2012

    Currency instability and a lack of transparency in domestic bank deal reports is more of an impediment to growth in the offshore RMB loan market than the lack of a reference rate for pricing, APLMA's vice chairman and China committee chair has said

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Project finance

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