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Crédit Agricole appoints head of corporate and leveraged finance
11 months ago
Crédit Agricole CIB has appointed a head of corporate and leveraged finance, effective Thursday -
Former Ares partner resurfaces at US multi-strategy asset manager
1 year ago
An experienced credit portfolio manager who worked at Ares and BlueBay has returned to the credit industry -
Fund performance: Rocky May piles on the misery for credit hedge funds
1 year ago
Negative fund performance soared in May -
Russian credit event auction plans put on hold after US sanctions update
1 year ago
Settlement of Russian Federation sovereign CDS has hit a delay, with the US having published updated advice on sanctions that could jeopardise the ability to conduct a credit event auction -
Fund performance: Wasserstein's early 2021 performance drives it to the top
2 years ago
The final top 10 of 2021 featured a variety of funds as five different strategies were ranked among the best. US high yield was the most highly represented with two BlackRock funds and an Angel Oak in the top 10 -
Citadel promotes credit head to co-CIO
2 years ago
Citadel has promoted its global credit head to co-chief investment officer -
Bennett Goodman's Hunter Point buys stake in MidOcean
2 years ago
Hunter Point, which was launched by Blackstone Credit’s co-founder Bennett Goodman alongside Avi Kalichstein in 2020, has made its first investment and bought a minority stake in mid-market specialist MidOcean -
Big name family business lines up corp hybrids fund
2 years ago
Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management (Edram) plans to launch a corporate hybrid fund and has hired Alex Eventon to lead the effort -
Co-head of Blackstone's GP stake-buying business to join Angelo Gordon
2 years ago
Angelo Gordon has snapped up a big name from Blackstone -
GIB brings in ESG expert for fixed income expansion
2 years ago
GIB Asset Management has hired from Abrdn as it looks to grow beyond emerging market credit and index strategies -
Deutsche Bank adds credit trading head to US build out
2 years ago
Deutsche Bank is looking at the next phase of its US development with the hire of a credit trading head from another bank -
Squarepoint draws big name options market maker to buy side
2 years ago
An experienced credit options trader has decided to join the systematic and quant strategies manager in a change of career from working on the sell side -
Natixis IM hires CEO with incumbent Raby set to depart
3 years ago
Natixis Investment Managers has hired Generali's chief investment officer to lead the firm from 12 April -
Squarepoint adds former bank credit trading head in London
3 years ago
Squarepoint Capital, a cross-asset fund manager that uses systematic and quantitative strategies, has hired a former global credit trading head at Societe Generale to lead fixed income, currencies and commodities alpha capture -
Pizza Express auction leaves protection sellers with just pineapple
3 years ago
An auction to settle Pizza Express CDS looks set to leave protection sellers with little solace, after the first round of bidding indicated a high pay-out on contracts referencing the UK-based restaurant chain -
Pizza Express auction date set with two bonds on initial list
3 years ago
Pizza Express 2014-version CDS contracts will be settled at auction on 1 October, following the UK food retailer’s triggering of a failure-to-pay credit event this month -
Matalan credit event ruling draws heavily on precedents, says DC
3 years ago
A bankruptcy credit event ruling on Matalan - the first this year in a European index - was a close call and relied heavily on several precedent credit events, the EMEA Determinations Committee has said -
DC sets Wirecard CDS auction date, obligations and settlement terms
3 years ago
The Determinations Committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa has set a date to settle CDS contracts referencing German digital payments company Wirecard -
Longview Power turns to coal for handful of CLOs
4 years ago
CLOs hold $43.9 million of the debt of US power company LongView Power, which filed for Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware yesterday -
Thomas Cook CDS buyers face bond squeeze as DC ejects 2023 notes from auction
4 years ago
The likelihood of a squeeze on Thomas Cook Group obligations has increased for market participants looking to physically settle their CDS contracts, after the Determinations Committee ruled that the collapsed UK travel firm’s €400 million 3.875% senior notes due 2023 were inadmissible into a credit event auction -
Thomas Cook ruling puts 2014 format CDS contracts back in the money
4 years ago
Thomas Cook Group triggered a failure-to-pay credit event when it filed for chapter 15 protection last month, the Determinations Committee has ruled – a decision that has big implications for holders of newer format CDS contracts on the name -
Roll week leaves CDS in strange places
4 years ago
CDS traders navigate a much-changed landscape in October, after one of the most impactful index rolls in recent times. -
Thomas Cook puts older and newer version CDS on separate planes
4 years ago
Thomas Cook’s filing for chapter 15 protection in New York last week means older version CDS contracts with a 20 September maturity triggered pay-outs, the Determinations Committee has ruled. But the worth of newer format CDS with the same maturity remains unclear ahead of a further DC meeting on Friday -
Top Gun triggers credit event, but there's no debt in the barrel
4 years ago
Top Gun Realisations 61, a New Look retail group private limited company that was previously named New Look Bondco I, has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the EMEA Determinations Committee has ruled. But no CDS auction will follow since the reference entity has no debt outstanding -
BlueMountain lands senior credit trader in New York
4 years ago
BlueMountain has hired an experienced trader in New York to cover credit and special situations
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