Debt-for-equity swaps (DES) are getting a reboot
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That’s what China’s state planning agency (NDRC) hopes. On Friday, it issued new rules that relax some of the previous restrictions on how the swaps can be structured and who can take part in the transactions. The two biggest changes:
Third-party companies can inject capital into banks’ private equ...