COFACE SA announces the renewal of its €700m syndicated loan agreement
Paris, 6 August 2021 – 17:45
COFACE SA announces the renewal of its €700m syndicated loan agreement
On 4 August 2021, as part of the refinancing of its factoring activities, COFACE SA signed with a group of banking partner the early renewal of its €700 million syndicated euro loan. It is part of the Build to Lead plan, which aims to leverage Coface assets in specialty businesses and therefore continues to support the development of factoring.
This transaction was initially concluded in 2017 to replace existing bilateral credit lines. Coface is supported by a panel of seven banking partners: BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Natixis, Société Générale, acting as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners, BRED, HSBC and La Banque Postale acting as Mandated Lead Arrangers. Société Générale is acting as Documentation and Facility Agent.
The loan is renewed for a period of three years with two one-year extension options at the lenders’ discretion. This transaction enables the Group to improve its financial flexibility and extend the maturity of its refinancing, while taking advantage of favourable market conditions and strengthening relations with its senior banks, which thus confirm their medium-term commitment to Coface.
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Saphia GAOUAOUI
Corentin HENRY | ANALYSTS / INVESTORS
Thomas JACQUET
Benoit CHASTEL |
FINANCIAL CALENDAR 2020/2021 (subject to change)
9M-2021 results: 28 October 2021 (after market close)
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
This press release, as well as COFACE SA’s integral regulatory information, can be found on the Group’s website:
http://www.coface.com/Investors
For regulated information on Alternative Performance Measures (APM),
please refer to our Interim Financial Report for S1-2021 and our 2020 Universal Registration Document.
| Coface: for trade With 75 years of experience and the most extensive international network, Coface is a leader in trade credit insurance and adjacent specialty services, including Factoring, Single Risk insurance, Bonding and Information services. Coface’s experts work to the beat of the global economy, helping ~50,000 clients build successful, growing, and dynamic businesses across the world. Coface helps companies in their credit decisions. The Group’s services and solutions strengthen their ability to sell by protecting them against the risks of non-payment in their domestic and export markets. In 2020, Coface employed ~4,450 people and registered a turnover of €1.45 billion. COFACE SA is quoted in Compartment A of Euronext Paris
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