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Helaba to launch EUR 500m infrastructure debt fund
7 months ago
Helaba Group is looking to launch its first comingled infrastructure debt fund, as the bank looks to expand its investment management capabilities in the sector -
Curve steepeners gain ground with inflation in focus
3 years ago
Credit performance this week has done little for market-directional trading strategies, but one area gaining traction beneath headline numbers is the steepening of curves -
Credit returns to year-opening levels as bulls score five out five
3 years ago
Credit markets are on course for their fifth straight day of improvement, with CDS index spreads not only undoing last week's volatile move wider but regaining the tight levels at which they began the year -
Rally puts credit back on even footing but single name volatility persists
3 years ago
A sizeable rally today is putting credit indices back on a flattish footing with where they began the week, adding to the sense the market is finely poised with only six trading days to go before the US presidential election -
Small businesses dominate sixth round of talf funding requests
3 years ago
Borrowers requested $282.7 million loans in the sixth round of the US Federal Reserve’s term asset loan programme, which began yesterday -
Ares fined $1 million by SEC over 'misuse of non-public information'
3 years ago
Ares Management has been fined $1 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a settlement surrounding compliance failure relating to a portfolio company -
Germany's €600 billion aid package and amended insolvency rules line road to recovery
4 years ago
Germany has launched two major initiatives, relevant for direct lenders, to help companies weather the negative financial impact of the covid-19 pandemic, according to Hans Stamm and Angelo Lercara, Munich-based partners at Dechert -
KKR deploys 10% of $2 billion coronavirus dislocation credit fund
4 years ago
KKR Credit has plans to launch a $2 billion dislocated corporate and asset backed credit fund to take advantage of coronavirus-induced volatility. And the New York-based manager has wasted no time swooping on opportunities after deploying $212 million by 9 April -
Frontier bankruptcy dials up pressure for 90 CLOs
4 years ago
Nine CLO managers hold $217 million of Frontier Communications’ debt across 90 CLOs, as the telecommunications company filed for Chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York -
Sun Life merges asset management business to create $159 billion division
4 years ago
Sun Life will merge its fixed income businesses - including Prime Advisors, Ryan Labs and Sun Life Institutional Investors - under a new umbrella named SLC Management -
Spanish €2.3 billion SRT referencing project finance loans suffers downgrade
5 years ago
A junior debt tranche in a €2.3 billion significant risk transfer originated by Banco Santander has suffered a downgrade less than a year after its launch -
Tikehau pairs with Groupama for French and European SME debt fund
5 years ago
The new vehicle is anchored by European Investment Fund -
Ranger direct lending fund set to wind-up as Ares withdraws candidacy
5 years ago
A new development in the Ranger Direct Lending Fund saga: Ares withdraws its proposal to assume managerial responsibilities for the fund -
Credit boutiques shine bright in Morningstar’s list
6 years ago
Morningstar’s five-star rating has recently been bestowed on a number of boutique credit managers -
Ares emerges as favourite to take over troubled direct lending fund
6 years ago
Following Oaktree’s wind-down request, the board of the Ranger Direct Lending Fund has chosen Ares as replacement manager - moves which could see the fund change its focus from peer-to-peer loan investments to asset-backed loans -
Tikehau raises over €200 million for French loan fund
6 years ago
Paris-based Tikehau has launched its latest Novo fund, which is endorsed by the French Insurance Federation -
Middle-market lender LBC promotes seven
6 years ago
Middle-market direct lender LBC Credit Partners has announced the promotions of seven team members -
European high yield inflows hit record
9 years ago
Inflows into European sub-investment grade funds hit a record high last week, according to JP Morgan -
Credit market snapshot: spreads widen on political fears
10 years ago
Credit spreads widen as political threats resurface in US and Europe, while US high yield rolls in to wider index -
Credit market snapshot: European financials have least weak week
10 years ago
European financials outperformed the market by moving out the least in a week of slow trading. The US underperformed. -
Credit market snapshot: Spreads shift wider as trading spikes
10 years ago
A tripling of trading activity on the major indices saw a widening of spreads across the market -
Credit market snapshot: crossover outperforms on tiny moves
10 years ago
Credit markets remined largely unmoved with European crossover outperforming but financials suffering losses -
Credit market snapshot: European investment grade outperforms market
10 years ago
Credit markets nudge wider with US high yield underperforming and European investment grade coming in -
Credit market snapshot: European crossover underperforms on flat day
10 years ago
Crossover names underperform, while senior financials outperform on flat day and low volumes -
Credit market snapshot: credit replays Tuesday's move wider
10 years ago
Spreads largely repeat Tuesday's moves, but subordinated financials fare worse
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