To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. The lack of willingness by banks to engage in lending, which is how the story is broadly articulated, is only part of the story, though. Banks in some countries in peripheral Europe in particular are not in a position to be able to fund their corporate clients. Elsewhere, it’s as much the flip side: clients lack the confidence to unle

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: Moving on, where are we in the realm of acquisition finance? Reinhard Haas, Commerzbank: From our discussion over the last hour, you would think that acquisition finance should be relatively easy to obtain, including for mid-caps and it’s true that it is not that hard to find liquidity to finance yourself. The problem I could see

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: Marion, can I ask you to comment on this issue of institutional lending? It’s very hard to track the volumes that are going through but one of the issues that comes up in conversation with banks around this is that whereas banks have an ancillary driver around how they approach corporates, institutional investors don’t have that

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: Welcome to this IFR Roundtable on SME Funding, a very topical theme today. To enable us to focus our discussion, let’s define SMEs as companies with turnover around the €500m mark, which are those that perhaps have multiple options around funding. Most of the conversation around mid-cap funding has been focused around the bank de

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Willi Doerges LBBW Willi Doerges is a director in the corporate capital markets team at LBBW covering issuers mainly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland and across various industry sectors. Doerges focuses on the origination of corporate Schuldscheine, private placements and corporate bonds. He joined LBBW in 2002; prior to his curr