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IFR Japan ESG 2021

IFR Japan ESG Roundtable 2021

Welcome to the Refinitiv LPC/IFR Japan ESG Roundtable. The event, held online on October 27, drew strong interest with more than 700 market participants registering to view and listen to the webcast. Representatives from the three Japanese mega banks – Mizuho Bank, MUFG and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp – a couple of borrowers and a ratings agency made up the panel to discuss the trends and outlook for environmental, social and governance financings, with a particular focus on loans.

IFR Japan ESG Roundtables 2021: Participants
IFR Japan ESG Roundtable 2021: Part 1
IFR Japan ESG Roundtable 2021: Part 2
IFR Japan ESG Roundtable 2021: Part 3
IFR German Mittelstand Financing Roundtable 2020

IFR German Mittelstand Financing Roundtable 2020

IFR convened a call in October with a quartet of seasoned banking professionals on the outlook for Mittelstand financing in Germany, where we defined our corporate demographic as companies with turnover between €125m and €1bn. The focus of the discussion was on conditions and driving themes in the loan market.

IFR German Mittelstand Financing RT 2020: Participants
IFR German Mittelstand Financing RT 2020: Part 1
IFR German Mittelstand Financing RT 2020: Part 2
IFR Asia Australia Debt Capital Markets Roundtable 2020

IFR Asia Australia Debt Capital Markets Roundtable 2020

The first IFR DCM roundtable to be held in Australia provided a timely assessment of the country’s monetary and fiscal policy responses and outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic.

IFR Asia Australia Debt Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Roundtable participants
IFR Asia Australia Debt Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Summary
IFR Asia High-Yield Roundtable 2020

IFR Asia High-Yield Bonds Roundtable 2020

The IFR Asia High-Yield Roundtable took place on October 6, 2020 amid a period of intense scrutiny on the region’s sub-investment-grade debt market.

IFR Asia High-Yield Roundtable 2020: Roundtable participants
IFR Asia High-Yield Roundtable 2020: Summary
Red lines and risk management
Webcast: Replay on demand
IFR US ECM Roundtable Webcast II

SPACs boom as an alternative to traditional IPOs

The second in our series of IFR US ECM Roundtable webcasts was held on Tuesday October 13 2020 and is now available on-demand.

IFR US ECM Roundtable Webcast I

Equity recapitalisation in a post-Covid funding environment

The first in a series of two IFR US ECM Roundtable webcasts took place on Tuesday October 6 2020. The webcast is now available to view on-demand.

IFR Asia Green and Sustainable Financing Roundtable 2020

IFR Asia Green and Sustainable Financing Roundtable 2020

IFR Asia’s 6th annual Green and Sustainable Financing Roundtable took place on August 20, 2020, amid a period of unprecedented change in the capital markets.

IFR Asia Green and Sustainable Financing Roundtable 2020: Roundtable participants
IFR Asia Green and Sustainable Financing Roundtable 2020: Summary
IFR Asia Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable 2020

IFR Asia Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses everywhere to change the way they operate, and IFR is no different. Originally scheduled as a face-to-face discussion, this year’s Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable brought together a cross-section of market participants for a live webcast – a first for this publication.

IFR Asia Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable 2020: Roundtable participants
IFR Asia Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable 2020: Part 1
IFR Asia Outlook for Asian Credit Roundtable 2020: Part 2
IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020

IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020

IFR’s ESG webinar took place on June 23, days after the European Parliament had passed the EU Taxonomy Regulation, and soon after the Green and Social Bond Principles Annual General Meeting had unveiled Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles for ESG targets-based general purpose bonds. (Not to be confused with use-of-proceeds sustainability bonds, ICMA was careful to point out).

IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Participants
IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Part 1
IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Part 2
IFR ESG Capital Markets Roundtable 2020: Part 3
IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020

IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020

IFR has conducted its German Corporate Funding Roundtable for around a dozen years now. The conversation that took place in early June as a closed video conference call was clearly and easily the most extraordinary, given what had happened in the previous quarter.The impacts and effects of Covid-19 as a public health issue first and a second-order economic issue need no repeating here. Yet despite the dire macroeconomic data and forecasts, the capital markets have experienced one of the best periods in their recent history. Since the severe collapse in equity and bond prices towards the end of March, markets have staged a remarkable comeback. Bond issuance volumes have hit records and while credit pricing may not have recovered its – arguably overbought – pre-Covid levels, the market is offering issuers tremendous opportunities to lock in keen costs of funds at a highly uncertain time. Both of the issuers on the session – BMW and E.ON – have taken full advantage of the opportunities the market has afforded them. While deals are being executed at a rapid clip, the market isn’t exactly euphoric although it has to be said the central bank and government support packages are acting as a robust backstop and creating a broadly comfortable if nervy tone. Discussion on the IFR call did question whether the government and monetary support generally was perhaps going too far and whether governments had over-reacted, creating into the bargain a strange juxtaposition of rampant inflation in financial asset prices set against a backdrop of dire economic impacts. What came up in discussion was an interesting notion that public authorities have created a series of temporary fixes to an economic problem using financial tools that are not necessarily appropriate. And, in the haste to get something out, not all of the monetary tools and programmes may necessarily have been well thought out. The bigger issue, of course, is how governments and monetary authorities exit their bazooka programmes.Panellists questioned the extent to which fundamentals justify current spreads, but by the same token investors do not have the luxury of putting liquidity aside and waiting for better levels. Neither of the investors on the call have really altered their approach to the bond market. Nor have DCM originators. While the impacts of Covid-19 have been grave and called for caution, the bond market has been through crises before. All of that said, the there was a sense on the call that capital markets participants have been acting at the same time as wondering if it made sense in the long run.In light of developments from March, IFR’s panellists – two issuers, two investors (Union Investment and Ampega Asset Management), and two bankers (HSBC and Commerzbank) – followed similar paths of operationalising risk-mitigation processes, conducting internal stress tests and scenario analyses to try and make sense of emerging developments with a view to keeping the capital markets functioning.

IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020: Participants
IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020: Part 1
IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020: Part 2
IFR German Corporate Funding Roundtable 2020: Part 3
IFR Asia High Yield Bonds Roundtable 2019

IFR Asia High Yield Bonds Roundtable 2019

Whenever an asset class sets a new record, people inevitably start to wonder whether a bubble is about to burst. Asian high-yield issuance had its best year on record in 2019, fuelled by the global low interest rate environment and a hunt for yield. So far, however, there are no signs of overheating. One of the main drivers of this year’s huge issuance volume was the massive refinancing requirement for Chinese property companies, and the amount of maturities next year is even higher.

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