On March 17, HM Treasury announced a number of measures designed to support businesses. The Chancellor set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by Covid. This page is designed for businesses who wish to use one of the major measures announced: the joint HM Treasury and Bank of England lending facility, named the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). The facility is designed to support liquidity among larger firms, helping them to bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through the purchase of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper.
At a summary level, to be eligible for the scheme, applicants currently need to:
Make a material UK contribution
Be investment grade rated (or equivalent) as at 1 March 2020 (as supplemented by the ongoing credit quality review described below)
Not be PRA- or FCA-regulated
Not be a public undertaking
Not be a leveraged investment vehicle
(NB: there is additional guidance for some specific types of entities – please see below for more details).
There is no requirement to have previously issued Commercial Paper (CP).
Not that I agree with the fundamental economic system/state of wealth inequality that underpins headlines like this, but... it makes sense, in the situation. Kroenke doesn't just have £120m in liquid cash floating around, easy to access on hand. The reality is that most of his wealth/worth is tied up in property or equity etc, so the actual cold hard cash that's probably needed right now is better off taken in the form of a loan now, and then repaid once Kroenke moves assets around or whatever.
All that said, it is obscene that one person can do this, and that we live in a world where multi-billion pound sports entities can take out loans for £120m.
Its a loan, not a handout and interest is being paid, allbeit at a more preferential rate than what would be commercially available.
AFAIK, Spurs refinanced some of their debt from commercial loans and switched to what was available through the government and have saved a significant sum in interest in doing so. Exactly like we all do when we remortgage our houses.
But if you remortgage your home you dont then spend the money on a boat or a car(well most people dont anyway) they do it because they need the money
But you can guarantee Arsenal spend money this January maybe not loads but they will spend money.
And thats probably why they havent gone to the Premier League as CT suggested above there was probably some clause about if u take the premier league loan you cant sign players.
Last time I remortgaged was because could get better rate. Same as what they are doing here
Not sure it is. Are CCFF Papers allowed to be used to refinance existing commercial loans?
I don't know but suspect there are rules governing their use.
Govt money unlikely to be allowed to be used for risk transferance / cheaper debt costs or at least that would be limited I would imagine.
Clients have been using the CCFF scheme in addition to their existing bank debt and not instead of. There would be costs for exiting a bank facility and no guarantee they would get it back again and probably not at the same rate if they were able to (cost of capital is easing, but still more expensive than pre-pandemic).
What they could do is draw on the CCFF scheme instead of their bank lines as the former will be cheaper. They’ll then have to pay non-utilisation fees on any term debt they have with the bank.
This isn’t an easy scheme to qualify for and there are a lot of restrictions and considerations that have to be considered. No issue with any business taking advantage of it as they are paying for it and there are security guarantees for the Treasury.
Not that I agree with the fundamental economic system/state of wealth inequality that underpins headlines like this, but... it makes sense, in the situation. Kroenke doesn't just have £120m in liquid cash floating around, easy to access on hand. The reality is that most of his wealth/worth is tied up in property or equity etc, so the actual cold hard cash that's probably needed right now is better off taken in the form of a loan now, and then repaid once Kroenke moves assets around or whatever.
All that said, it is obscene that one person can do this, and that we live in a world where multi-billion pound sports entities can take out loans for £120m.
Not sure what Kroenke is worth but it’s several billions I think. I find it hard to believe he doesn’t have £120 million in liquid funds. It sounds (and is) a lot of money but an average 4 bedroom house in Deptford is going to cost you £900k. For someone like Kroenke I would think it’s quite small change. Having to shift assets around to lay his hands on that much seems unlikely to me.
Not that I agree with the fundamental economic system/state of wealth inequality that underpins headlines like this, but... it makes sense, in the situation. Kroenke doesn't just have £120m in liquid cash floating around, easy to access on hand. The reality is that most of his wealth/worth is tied up in property or equity etc, so the actual cold hard cash that's probably needed right now is better off taken in the form of a loan now, and then repaid once Kroenke moves assets around or whatever.
All that said, it is obscene that one person can do this, and that we live in a world where multi-billion pound sports entities can take out loans for £120m.
Not sure what Kroenke is worth but it’s several billions I think. I find it hard to believe he doesn’t have £120 million in liquid funds. It sounds (and is) a lot of money but an average 4 bedroom house in Deptford is going to cost you £900k. For someone like Kroenke I would think it’s quite small change. Having to shift assets around to lay his hands on that much seems unlikely to me.
The likelihood is that any bank debt is guaranteed, which means that the CCFF benefits from the same. Kroenke will be on the hook one way or another & there will be restrictions on dividends/bonuses, for example, while they are in the scheme.
120m is roughly matchday revenue. Going forward 120m is not a lot, agree to disagree on that one
What a sad indictment of the game and the state that it is in, that we now think that a figure or £120m is a relative small one, and certainly shows that the premier league is in a world of it's own, while the rest of the game just withers and in some cases sadly dies. As long as the fans are prepared to pay these inflated costs of season tickets to these clubs, then i can not see a change in the status quo.
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The Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF)
On March 17, HM Treasury announced a number of measures designed to support businesses. The Chancellor set out a package of temporary, timely and targeted measures to support public services, people and businesses through this period of disruption caused by Covid. This page is designed for businesses who wish to use one of the major measures announced: the joint HM Treasury and Bank of England lending facility, named the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). The facility is designed to support liquidity among larger firms, helping them to bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through the purchase of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper.
At a summary level, to be eligible for the scheme, applicants currently need to:
All that said, it is obscene that one person can do this, and that we live in a world where multi-billion pound sports entities can take out loans for £120m.
As long as the fans are prepared to pay these inflated costs of season tickets to these clubs, then i can not see a change in the status quo.