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Thames Water

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Thames Water junior creditors accuse rivals of ‘predatory’ loan conditions

    Class B bondholders have filed their own restructuring plan for the troubled utility

    A Thames Water van on a road, near staff carrying out repairs and maintenance in London, England in December 2024
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    ExplainerUtilities
    Why UK water regulator’s decision on bills is set to stoke turmoil

    Ofwat has not given heavily indebted Thames Water the increase in customer payments it was seeking

    Campaigners against Thames Water outside the High Court on December 17, 2024 in London
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Water bills in England and Wales to rise 36% after Ofwat review

    Customer charges to increase by an average of £31 a year before inflation between now and 2030

    Water flows from a tap into cupped hands
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Thames Water rival bondholders face off in court hearing

    Troubled utility seeks approval for ‘urgent’ £3bn loan from its top-ranking lenders

    Campaigners against Thames Water outside the High Court
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    LexRoyal Mail
    Golden shares may be tarnished but a comeback beckons Premium content

    It’s back to the 1980s in the UK with the Royal Mail sale

    A logo at Royal Mail’s Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in London
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Thames Water warns that rival bondholders’ plan risks nationalisation

    Junior bondholders are planning to challenge emergency £3bn loan in court next week

    A tanker is pictured at Thames Water’s Mogden sewage treatment works in Isleworth, west London
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    UK politics
    Reform UK calls for Thames Water to be renationalised

    Populist party’s deputy leader says heavily indebted utility should ‘be put out of its misery’

    Thames Water vans parked on a road in London, England
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Thames Water creditors head for courtroom showdown over £3bn emergency loan

    Junior bondholders to mount a rival plan as utility asks judge to sign off on restructuring

    People near a Thames Water van
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Lex
    Thames Water is nearing a market-led solution — but at what cost?

    Ministers and the regulator might be close to victory in this first round of chicken

    Thames Water vans parked on a road in London
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Infrastructure investment
    Thames Water boss says break-up would be a distraction

    Chief executive Chris Weston says utility focused on raising debt and equity to help avert cash crunch

    A picture of Thames Water’s logo on a manhole cover
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK should temporarily take over Thames Water, says ex-government adviser

    Dieter Helm warns biggest water utility risks a ‘slow death’ that could spread to other companies

    A Thames Water van
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Thames Water receives bid from Covalis and France’s Suez

    UK investor is teaming up with French group as part of a bid for control of troubled utility

    A sign displaying the Thames Water Ltd. company logo on protective barriers surrounding water supply works in London
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Thames Water creditors veto use of £3bn loan to pay fines

    Troubled utility faces fines of £400mn by March 2027 as it tries to avoid renationalisation

    A woman passes a Thames Water construction site in London,
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Who takes charge when Thames Water has no shareholders?

    Not literally, but effectively

    A ship lost at sea
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Thames Water faced with £100mn bill from creditors’ advisers

    Fees represent an additional drain on finances of troubled UK utility as customer bills are set to rise

    Thames Water vans are parked on a road
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Ofwat says 9 water companies must not pay bonuses out of customer bills

    UK regulator to block executive bonuses at companies including Thames Water because of performance issues

    Thames Water’s Deephams sewage treatment works in London
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    Thames Water’s emergency loan could cost £800mn in interest and fees

    Mooted £3bn loan will hit customers and drain troubled utility’s resources, warn experts

    A Thames Water van
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Thames Water wins bondholder approval for £3bn emergency loan

    Three-quarters of top ranking lenders approve expensive plan to avert cash crunch

    Thames Water vans parked in London
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
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  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    How Thames Water became a battleground for hedge funds

    Rival groups of bondholders are vying to extend loans to the troubled UK utility

    Thames Water’s Deephams sewage treatment works in London
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Thames Water receives rival £3bn loan offer from bondholders

    Junior creditors say their financing would come with cheaper and more flexible terms

    A pedestrian walks past a Thames Water vehicle in London, with the company's logo prominently displayed on the side. The person is looking at their phone.
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Southern Water Ltd
    Southern Water at risk of debt default in event of further credit downgrades

    Bond issue documentation shows UK utility under pressure over high financing costs

    Southern water logo and a glass of water
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Rival creditor group offers Thames Water emergency loan at lower rate

    The UK’s largest water and sewerage provider is struggling with a £19bn debt load

    The Beckton sewage treatment works, operated by Thames Water, in London
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    S&P downgrades Thames Water debt further into ‘junk’ territory

    Decision comes after troubled UK utility reached tentative deal on £3bn of emergency financing

    Thames Water employees work at a water pipe burst in Brixton Hill, London
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Green bonds
    When green debt turns brown

    Thames Water stinks out the sector

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