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US loan volume nears record levels
26 days ago
In Q1 2024 quarterly institutional loan issuance reached its second highest level on record. The period also saw the lowest quarterly share of new money issuance, at just 13% of total activity -
Relative to Airbus, Boeing was long accountants but short engineers
26 days ago
A qualitative approach can help investors spot boards that are too focused on short-term returns -
February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights
1 month ago
Debtwire today releases the February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets. -
European companies reprice EUR 16bn of loans in 2024 as window opens
2 months ago
When the European loan market started to talk about rates peaking late in 2023, repricing rehearsed a comeback, but did so effectively in January this year -
US borrowers try again with high-water mark provisions
2 months ago
In the US, high-water marking of EBITDA was rebuffed back in 2022. But the concept has been used regularly in Europe and US borrowers are once again slipping it into credit agreements -
DebtDynamics EMEA: Size matters
3 months ago
Direct lending margins widen on small deals, with an enlarging gap to other deals in the latest DebtDynamics EMEA research -
Palmer Square liquidates 2022 CLO through BWIC
4 months ago
Palmer Square is the seller of a mammoth EUR 350m loan and bond BWIC portfolio that was auctioned last Thursday (4 January) as it has been winding down Palmer Square European Loan Funding 2022-3 -
Full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
4 months ago
Debtwire has released the full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
End on a high: institutional loan and HY bond issuance rises 44% YoY
4 months ago
Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 529bn in 2023, representing a 44% year-on-year (YoY) increase -
Low margins and scarcity of LBOs hurt term loan revenues
4 months ago
Despite a resurgence in global term loan B (TLB) volume, which grew by 30% to reach $416.6bn as of December 2023, revenue earned by arranging banks on these facilities only totalled $3.0bn -
2023: a bumper year for CLO funds
4 months ago
It looks like 2023 will finish as a solid year for most credit funds, and an outstanding one for CLO funds. But funds pursuing corporate distressed strategies continued to struggle -
November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
5 months ago
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
5 months ago
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
DebtDynamics EMEA | Right on time
5 months ago
Leveraged loan borrowers favouring shorter tenors pile maturities for 2028 -
M&G launches first European private credit fund
6 months ago
M&G Investments is the latest firm looking to individual investors as an avenue for fundraising with the launch of a new ELTIF, dubbed the M&G Corporate Credit Opportunities Fund -
US CLO credit Air Methods Corporation files for bankruptcy
6 months ago
Air Methods Corporation, a widely held name in the US CLO market, filed for Chapter 11 this morning reporting USD 1bn to USD 10bn in liabilities. -
September 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
7 months ago
Refinancing continues to amplify leveraged debt volume in Debtwire's latest report featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond market -
Loan Highlights 3Q23: Loan volumes remain significantly lower than historical averages
7 months ago
Capital markets loan activity continued to struggle in the third quarter of 2023, as issuers in the Americas and Europe held off from tapping markets -
Fund performance
7 months ago
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again -
ICG taps Apollo partner as head of US liquid credit
7 months ago
The new head of US liquid credit has been tasked with helping grow ICG's US credit business -
Fed members need to restore their credibility, which could translate into excessive tightening
8 months ago
Rising wages have boosted spending and GDP — but the party can’t last forever -
DebtDynamics North America: de-risking remains key focus for loan issuers and investors alike
8 months ago
Syndicated leveraged loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets have endured a challenging time during the past eight months but sentiment is far from rock-bottom -
Arini's hiring spree continues as it builds out CLO platform
9 months ago
Arini continues to beef up its loan team with the hire of a senior member of the credit team at Rothschild -
US leveraged loan issuance drops 35% year on year
9 months ago
Debtwire 's new July 2023 US Leveraged Highlights report sees a striking 70% year-on-year decrease in new money institutional activity as lack of supply from the M&A market weighs on issuance -
Snooze - you’re extended! Can lenders in European SFAs sleep-walk into extended tranches? - Xtract Special Report
9 months ago
This Xtract Research special report asks whether lenders under European SFAs could find themselves re-designated into a later-maturing facility or tranche than originally documented without their explicit consent
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