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All change, please
10 months ago
This year has not only seen the fall of Credit Suisse, but also the arrival of two fresh faces — Scotiabank and CIBC — triggering a wave of hiring that has some way to run. -
Credit Suisse/UBS deal to create $5 trillion asset manager
1 year ago
The emphasis is set be on wealth and asset management, according to a statement released by UBS in conjunction with its move to acquire Credit Suisse -
Credit and commodities diverge after China abandons zero-covid approach
1 year ago
Markets present a mixed picture at the start of the week, with Europe – still processing Friday’s US jobs numbers – opening cautiously after China’s retreat from strict zero-covid policies boosts commodity prices but raises fears of an infection wave -
Powell outlook brings risk buyers out in droves, but reality check looks soon to follow
1 year ago
Comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday on the pace of future rate hikes have prompted a sharp rally across global financial markets, including credit. But dissenting voices have already begun to point out the enthusiasm is likely overdone -
Credit Suisse spreads hit year's new wides
1 year ago
Protection buying against a Credit Suisse default has taken the bank’s five-year CDS to the widest levels of the year, with the front end of the curve increasingly inverted -
Europe regains momentum versus US despite bank concerns
1 year ago
European outperformance is extending this week, taking investment grade and high yield spreads alike to their tightest prints since June relative to their US peers. But Credit Suisse remains a blot on Europe’s record as the bank’s short term risk levels continue a worrying trend -
Credit Suisse slumps in bleak Monday, but high yield name sharply bucks trend
1 year ago
Financial markets are beginning the week on an uncertain footing, with anti-covid lockdown protests in China hitting commodity prices hard. But one European high yield company has bucked credit’s widening push with a massive rally -
Credit Suisse tests investor nerves as market preps for Fed-focused week
1 year ago
Credit Suisse, which has been subjected to another week of intense scrutiny, is heading into the weekend with its credit spreads extending wider, after warning on losses and undertaking a capital hike -
Swiss bank looks to plug holes but investors are hun-gruyere for risk
1 year ago
Credit Suisse is a rare, worrisome cloud in an otherwise brightening sky this week, as Europe extends its tightening trend in credit with the US standing at ease for the Thanksgiving holiday -
Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
1 year ago
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service -
Apollo and Pimco buy ‘significant portion’ of Credit Suisse's securitised products group
1 year ago
The move has prompted a rally for Credit Suisse, which on Thursday unveiled a strategic review “designed to reduce risk-weighted assets and leverage exposure” -
US and Europe divide honours between HY and IG as market rally extends
1 year ago
A second straight day of improvement is adding to this week’s gathering rally, but while US high yield is outperforming European the reverse is true in investment grade -
Credit Suisse and UK names lead charge as European IG outperforms
1 year ago
European investment grade credit is rallying strongly at the start of this week, in contrast to a sluggish start by its US counterpart market, with Credit Suisse and UK companies among the outperformers -
Credit structuring head lands at Deutsche Bank in expanded role
1 year ago
Deutsche Bank has hired former Credit Suisse global credit structuring head Paul Bajer in a broader remit as global co-head of cross asset structuring -
Loan traders eagerly await electronic trading solution
1 year ago
The announcement of Octaura’s electronic loan and CLO trading platform last month has been met with positivity by market participants, who laud the unified approach taken by large investment banks in supporting the initiative -
Octaura's real-time trading solution paves way for loans and CLOs to drop illiquid tag
1 year ago
The unprecedented cooperation between CLO trading desks that culminated last week in the launch of Octaura could change the way credit investors judge the relative value merits of loans and CLOs versus liquid alternatives such as high yield bonds -
Points up front: Who is going into the Creditflux interview room?
1 year ago
The Creditflux CLO Symposium brought together 620 market participants from across the globe, and they had one question on their lips: what’s going on in the Creditflux interview room? -
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 -
Credit funds at a glance (March 2022)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Points up front: Definitely not an ex-parrot
2 years ago
One of the biggest credit fund launches last month was Arini, led by star credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer -
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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Credit funds at a glance (October 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Barclays fills gap by hiring global macro credit trading head in New York
2 years ago
Banks are moving quickly to make sure they are staffed up in credit trading with Barclays bringing in an experienced trader in New York -
Credit funds at a glance (August 2021)
2 years ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
3 years ago
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion
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