Banking - United States archive

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Deal analysis

  • The deal that tests efficacy of US PPPs

    16 April 2013

    An availability-based toll road project in the US reveals that municipal bond investors are willing to accept increasing risks in public-private partnerships

  • US private placement market opens to Latam projects

    08 November 2012

    A first-of-its-kind private placement has linked US institutional investors with Brazil’s project market – and revealed them to be a perfect a match

  • ResCap’s complex Dip financing

    21 May 2012

    One of the most intriguing aspects of Residential Capital’s Chapter 11 reorganisation could be its Dip financing package

  • Puerto Rico sets P3 example for US

    30 November 2011

    The first transaction under Puerto Rico’s public-private-partnership authority (PRPPPA) has set some valuable lessons for budding P3 programmes throughout the US

  • Regulatory reform pushes UK corporate sukuk

    06 September 2010

    Following amendments to UK laws on alternative bonds, Millennium PE has used a musharaka structure to buy into the UK’s debut corporate sukuk

News analysis

  • Iosco advice unwelcome and costly

    10 Sep 2009

    Recommendations to increase scrutiny of verification and risk assurance practices on securitisation deals will meet opposition from practitioners, and could lead to big increases in deal costs

  • Securitisation is back

    01 Sep 2009

    And structuring is key to new deals - whether it's to placate investors, create a new market or make the best of regulation

  • Breaking convertibles

    01 Sep 2009

    Convertible bond investors will simply leave the US if a circuit-breaker rule makes short selling harder. Just when companies need that funding most

  • GM offer sets Europe precedent

    01 Sep 2009

    The $27 billion GM exchange offer was the first retail offer approved by the UKLA and persuaded Italy to reform its onerous bond restructuring rules

  • The perils of underwriting-lite

    01 Sep 2009

    Dealer managers should seek proper legal protections in liability management, argues Tom Pauk of Citigroup

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