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            <title><![CDATA[Banks Launch $2 Billion BASF Coatings Loan Sale for Buyout]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:03:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI to Transform How Credit Market Works, JPMorgan Banker Says]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Private Credit Fears Deepen With UBS Warning of 15% Defaults]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ares Prices Second European CLO Backed by Private Credit Loans]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:36:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Software Slump Sees Another Leveraged Loan Deal Put on Hold]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boots Increases Dollar Loan Offering, Further Cuts Bond Size]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Douglas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:17:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Adler Creditors to Take Control as Its Fire Sale Fizzles]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Libby Cherry]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:34:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Brutal Week for Private Lenders Ends With Big Banks Scoring Wins]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Europe’s Safest Firms Record Biggest Jump in Bond Coupons in Decade]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Third of the UK’s Safest Bonds Are Giving Off Distress Signals]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:25:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Bond Payment Is in Limbo as Countdown to Default Begins]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Exit from Bond Indexes to Trigger Portfolio Rebalancing]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Finbarr Flynn]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:07:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gyms Are the Unlikely Winners of U.K. Post-Covid Reopening]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Benitez]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vice Is a Hard Habit to Kick as ESG Seeps Into Credit Markets]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Douglas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Europe Corporate Bonds Sink Amid Widespread Market Sell-Off]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:59:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bolsonaro Calls Greta Thunberg a Brat in Latest Celebrity Insult]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bolsonaro Dismisses Chances of Protests Breaking Out in Brazil]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Douglas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Forest Surges Most in a Decade]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Douglas]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:20:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bolivia’s Morales Headed for Run-Off Vote as Rival Outperforms]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Roeder]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:27:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bolivia Heads to Polls in Test of Evo Morales’ Popularity]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Roeder]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:04:36 GMT</pubDate>
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