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The October 2022 ‘mini’ budget threw pension scheme liquidity into the mainstream news, with reports that schemes were on the verge of collapse and the Bank of England...more
In May 2022 we reported that where Term SOFR was being used widely in U.S. loans; its use in other markets was more limited. Six months on, how has the picture changed?...more
How is the loan market reacting to the economic environment, and how should borrowers respond?
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Term SOFR, the forward-looking term rate based on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), has become an established benchmark rate for new US Dollar lending in the US syndicated loan market....more
In the race to remediate, the moment has come for lenders to lighten up on corporate authorisations and legal opinions....more
As regulators, shareholders, investors and wider society increasingly focus their attention on ESG matters, they have crept up the boardroom agenda of large companies and financial institutions and are now firmly in the...more
The CCFF is one of the two major support measures announced by HM Treasury and the Bank of England. The other is the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme....more
The UK government has announced a number of measures designed to respond to the economic shock arising from Covid-19 coronavirus – these include providing businesses of all sizes with access to a £330 billion package of...more
On 27 June, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a policy statement setting out the final form of its proposed ban on right of first refusal and right to act provisions relating to the supply of certain future...more