Europe’s refinancing wave
GPs struggled to refinance portco debt in last year’s choppy markets. But with interest rates expected to come down, fortunes could be improving, as Xhulio Ismalaj reports
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Europe’s refinancing wave
GPs struggled to refinance portco debt in last year’s choppy markets. But with interest rates expected to come down, fortunes could be improving, as Xhulio Ismalaj reports
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