Governments are ‘increasingly anxious’ to encourage alternative sources of funding, say the authors of the law firm’s report ‘Funding European business: What’s the alternative?’ in which they survey over 200 finance executives across western Europe. The authors also point to ‘recent regulatory changes in Italy, for example’ which open the market to non-bank lenders such as insurance companies. And the firm says: ‘It’s looking increasingly likely that a pan-European private placement market will join the mainstream of corporate finance in 2015.’ Source: A&O
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