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Points up front: Making a meal of the arb
1 year ago
Credit market participants are always looking at the best arbitrage opportunity and right now that seems to be at McDonald’s -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Think of the arb, say US CLO panelists after big loan drop
1 year ago
Far from being a cause for alarm, falling loan prices have brought a welcome opportunity in new CLO issuance for managers and investors, according to speakers at the Creditflux Symposium in London today -
Macro woes have dented CLO and loan outlook: Barclays
1 year ago
Rising interest rates and elevated macro volatility have negatively impacted the performance outlook for both loans and CLOs, according to Barclays credit strategists -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
1 year ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
1 year ago
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value -
US loans recover but CLOs lag and issuance stutters
1 year ago
The US leveraged loan market spent the latter half of March recovering losses from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with prices now above where they were when the war started -
European CLO pipeline thins as investors wait for stability
1 year ago
The European leveraged loan and CLO market has yet to regain momentum following the start of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, with investors pointing to a thin immediate CLO pipeline -
"Having tighter CLO debt costs will not be enough for brand names to outperform more agile competitors"
1 year ago
The drop in loan and CLO prices today is unlike any previous downturn — but again it will pay to be agile -
European loans stumble after bright start to 2022
2 years ago
Jitters around inflation, interest rate hike expectations and escalating geopolitical tensions in Russia/Ukraine have created softness in the European leveraged loan market -
Sofr spike boosts CLO debt as Europe and US go out of sync
2 years ago
The sharp rise in three-month term Sofr has caused CLO relative value to shift decisively towards primary US CLO debt tranches in January as the floating rate benchmark shot up from 9.11bp to 17.06bp (from 1-20 January) -
Migration into floating rate kicks off with record loan inflows
2 years ago
The leveraged loan market received record-breaking inflows from retail funds in January as investors pivoted into floating rate products in advance of interest rate rises -
Banks and loans to benefit in 2022 as safe havens dwindle
2 years ago
Safe havens and sector pitfalls are among some of the top considerations for portfolio managers this year, as a consensus forms that credit could suffer versus other asset classes -
CLOs prove resistant to omicron in boost for new issue market
2 years ago
The CLO market has withstood the impact of the omicron coronavirus variant with barely a dent on CLO liability pricing -
Market ponders Sofr spread adjustment amid investor lag
2 years ago
The CLO market is waving goodbye to Libor as a benchmark rate and transitioning to alternatives for the first time in the history of the asset class. But there is no consensus as to what the Sofr spread adjustment should be, and some of the largest buyers are said to be slow to consider the impact of a benchmark transition -
Lev loan index rule change proposed to meet Sofr switch
2 years ago
Leveraged loan index stakeholders are being asked for feedback on a proposal that would allow the inclusion of loans linked to Sofr and scrap a minimum spread rule -
Firm claims to cut loan settlement times with blockchain based securitisation
2 years ago
Cadeia, a German technology firm, claims to have undertaken the first ever fully blockchain based corporate loan securitisation transaction -
CLO lower cap stack will outperform with $175bn new issuance in 2022: JP Morgan
2 years ago
Equity and lower rated tranche investors will do best as $175 billion of global new CLO issuance arrives in 2022, predict JP Morgan strategists in their annual outlook, taking market size to $1.2 trillion -
Nomura closes in on Sofr CLO milestone with 15bp emerging as standard for spread adjustment
2 years ago
Nomura is close to a major breakthrough by arranging the first CLO transaction with a Sofr pricing component -
CLO Census latest: voting crosses 200 as range of dealers lead in CLO origination
2 years ago
CLO market participants are placing value on the specialist service that dealers are providing, according to Creditflux’s CLO Census, with three different banks leading the way for US CLO execution, structuring and syndication. A silimar trend is in play in Europe -
Spread adjustment curve emerges for ground-breaking Walker & Dunlop Sofr loan
2 years ago
Walker & Dunlop has changed the credit spread adjustment (CSA) on its fully-Sofr $600 million loan, Debtwire reports, with a varied structure depending on the benchmark tenor -
The Creditflux CLO Symposium was back as an in-person event for the first time in two years and participants were delighted to socialise and bask in an amazing year for the credit industry2 years ago
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Nine CLOs each — and every one of them is different
2 years ago
CLO giants Blackstone and Carlyle Group have printed nine new US CLOs apiece this year, but CLO market participants say managers are creating distinct portfolios -
Landmark Sofr loan nears with spread adjustment giving taste of things to come
2 years ago
The first fully-Sofr US loan is getting closer -
Credit investors seek alpha as delta variant creates volatility
2 years ago
The leveraged loan and private debt markets have been on a tear for the first half of the year, but analysts are forecasting a more volatile six months ahead
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