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Weatherford faces credit event auction with 50% area recoveries implied
4 years ago
The Americas Credit Determinations Committee has agreed to hold an auction to settle CDS referencing Weatherford International, having ruled last week the Houston headquartered oilfield services provider had triggered a bankruptcy credit event -
Net short CDS provisions reach Europe as Legoland owner aims to block activist investors
4 years ago
A buy-out financing package for Merlin Entertainment will provide what looks to be the first instance in the European market of provisions aimed at deterring lenders from being net short borrowers’ debt through CDS -
Rallye CDS auction price drops to 12.5 cents on unmatched sell requests
4 years ago
Rallye's credit event auction to settle CDS contracts produced a final price of 12.5 cents today, lower than the initial price set in the first round this morning of 14.975 -
Rallye CDS set for high pay-out with credit event auction underway
4 years ago
Rallye CDS looks set for a high pay-out to protection buyers after a credit event auction today to settle the contracts produced an inside market midpoint of 14.875 cents, slightly below where the retailer’s bonds have been quoted -
Rallye CDS auction to have 10 dealers and six deliverables
4 years ago
10 dealers will take part in an auction next week to settle CDS contracts referencing Rallye, after the Determinations Committee voted to add Morgan Stanley as a participating bidder -
Rallye CDS auction date set with three initial deliverables
4 years ago
A credit event auction to settle CDS referencing Rallye, the parent of French supermarket chain Casino, will take place on 27 June, with the Determinations Committee having agreed an initial list of three deliverable obligations -
Credit traders' kickstand: rally makes good on relative value plays, but high yield pitfalls abound
4 years ago
Credit markets are ending the week on a stronger tone overall than they did last Friday, following supportive comments this week from both the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank meeting. But big drops in some individual company bonds shows there are still plenty of pitfalls to catch out the unwary -
100% pay-out on New Look CDS as physical bids fail to materialise
4 years ago
A credit event auction to settle CDS referencing New Look today resulted in a zero cent final price, meaning contracts paid out to protection buyers in full - the first time this has happened other than by a 'deemed auction' decision since 2012 -
New Look CDS auction sets 1.5 cents as initial market mid-point
4 years ago
A credit event auction to settle CDS referencing New Look today has produced an initial market midpoint of just 1.5 cents, in line with the low price at which bonds have been quoted -
New Look CDS auction to have only one deliverable, says DC
4 years ago
An credit event auction tomorrow to settle CDS referencing UK retailer New Look will have only one deliverable obligation, following no challenges to the initial list -
Supermarket owner Rallye triggers credit event and joins queue for settlement checkout
4 years ago
Rallye, the parent of French supermarket chain Casino, has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Determinations Committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has determined -
New Look triggers credit event with big pay-out likely for CDS
4 years ago
The Europe, Middle East & Africa Determinations Committee has ruled that New Look has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event -
Steinhoff CDS auction in limbo due to lock-up and CVA
5 years ago
A date to settle CDS referencing Steinhoff Europe had still to be agreed as Creditflux went to press — more than a month on from when the EMEA Determinations Committee (DC) ruled that the company had triggered a failure-to-pay credit event. -
Credit Suisse adds special situations trading head among raft of hires
5 years ago
Credit Suisse has continued to build momentum in its credit business with the hire of a managing director to head special situations and loan trading with its Europe, Middle East and Africa credit products business, following on from nine others across its London and New York credit business -
New Look bankruptcy credit event question put before Determinations Committee
5 years ago
The Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee for the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region has been asked to rule on whether New Look, the UK based clothes retailer, has triggered a bankruptcy credit event -
Steinhoff has triggered failure-to-pay credit event, rules DC
5 years ago
Steinhoff Europe has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, the EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled unanimously -
Steinhoff Europe failure-to-pay credit event question posed to DC
5 years ago
The EMEA Determinations Committee has been asked to rule on whether Steinhoff Europe has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, following the retailer’s lock-up period request -
Isda tables plans to rid CDS market of narrowly tailored credit events
5 years ago
After lengthy deliberation, a working group of major firms is today set to publish proposals aimed at ridding the market of ‘narrowly tailored credit events’, whereby borrowers are persuaded to default on debt payments in order to trigger pay-outs for CDS holders -
Dealers gear up to settle Sears CDS and rule on Ziggo successor
5 years ago
The long wait to settle the final price of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps will end today with a credit event auction, while investors could also learn whether there is successor to contracts referencing deregistered Ziggo Bond Finance -
Astaldi CDS auction sets 30.875 final price as physical settlement boosts recovery
5 years ago
An auction today to settle credit default swaps referencing Astaldi has determined the final price to be 30.875 cents on the euro, meaning a 69.125 cents pay-out per euro for protection buyers -
Crossover converges on CDX HY as Fed, earnings and heavy technicals take hold
5 years ago
Big moves of single name credits continue to hold sway over the iTraxx Europe Crossover credit default swap index, whose underperformance of US counterpart CDX HY has extended during the past week amid a big technical repositioning of flows -
CLO managers on alert as five credits drive Crossover index rout
5 years ago
Five constituents of iTraxx Crossover have hit big bumps this week, fuelling a noticeable underperformance of the European credit default swap index against its US counterpart yesterday in a reversal of the recent trend -
10 bidders line up for Astaldi CDS auction as Morgan Stanley swaps in for Mizuho
5 years ago
There will be 10 participating bidders to an auction to settle Astaldi credit default swaps, with the Determinations Committee unanimously approving Morgan Stanley’s involvement as Mizuho dropped out -
Astaldi credit event auction deadline looms for participating bidders
5 years ago
Firms wishing to take part next week in a credit event auction to settle Astaldi credit default swaps have until 5pm London time today (23 November) to submit participating bidder letters to the Determinations Committee -
Astaldi credit event question posed as its distress weighs on iTraxx Crossover
5 years ago
Astaldi, a constituent of iTraxx Crossover, has been referred to ISDA-hosted Credit Determinations Committees as a possible bankruptcy credit event – less than two weeks after the index rolled into a new series
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