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21 May 2012
One of the most intriguing aspects of Residential Capital’s Chapter 11 reorganisation could be its Dip financing package
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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
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11 April 2012
A broader definition of ‘leveraged loan’ and stricter pipeline management are tipped to be the most eagerly watched aspects of the US’s new leveraged finance guidelines
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12 March 2012
New tax-equity structures being explored by renewable energy investors are expected to increase opportunities for smaller financiers to take advantage of the model
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31 January 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
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16 November 2011
Market volatility has increased wall-crossing practices among WKSIs. But US lawyers do not expect SEC plans to enable underwriters to offer wall-crossed securities prior to registration to come into effect
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27 September 2011
Political and regulatory uncertainty is the biggest impediment to the US’s fledgling P3 industry. What's needed before projects can begin under the newest state P3 regimes?
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27 September 2011
US government agencies should resist taking the traffic risk in road and bridge public-private-partnerships for political reasons. Here are the alternatives
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16 September 2011
Increasing bank regulation will impact on loan market behaviour within two months, according to a JPMorgan loan trader
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15 September 2011
Bank of America’s inclusion of tracking stocks in its contingency plan requested by the Fed is the first mention of the security in a long time. But it's not returning
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15 September 2011
Delays to US swaps rules, combined with a regulator’s disapproval of an industry-proposed clearing framework in anticipation of the proposed rule is upsetting the market
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13 September 2011
With the regulatory spotlight fixed on banks and their activities, the shadow banking industry is growing
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13 September 2011
The US government’s planned National Infrastructure Bank would offer a new form of finance for private and public-private partnership projects
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02 September 2011
Regulators are in dialogue with the US’s loan trading trade body on the potential exemption of open market CLOs from risk retention rules
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30 August 2011
Mandatory changes introduced this week will bring the US tri-party repo market more in line with the European market
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16 August 2011
Rule 13H-1 will drive up US broker-dealers’ diligence requirements and ultimately increase cost burdens, say attorneys
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28 July 2011
CFTC latest swaps proposal has attorneys puzzled as to its purpose
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28 July 2011
US Supreme Court’s decision could change the way banks choose swap counterparties. Here's why
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27 July 2011
European loan contracts should include explicit waivers that junior creditors have in a US bankruptcy scenario, according to lawyers