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Credit Rendezvous: the outlook in 2020 across a dozen segments of the credit market
4 years ago
Welcome to the Credit Rendezvous, the first instalment of a regular feature published by Creditflux that tracks credit market dynamics in a dozen segments from investment grade, liquid loans, CLOs and CSOs all the way through to distressed debt. We view this as the meeting point for credit specialists across strategies to share their perspectives -
Hedge against coronavirus, says JP Morgan, naming 40 most exposed credits
4 years ago
With novel coronavirus cases rising at what looks to be an exponential rate, JP Morgan strategists have proposed a high yield hedge to address the rising threat to European credit spreads and listed 40 borrowers they think are most exposed to impact -
European financials outperform corporates as coronavirus spreads
4 years ago
Financial CDS is outperforming corporate credit today, and Europe outperforming the US, as the market jumps wider on rising alarm at the spread of China’s novel coronavirus -
Credit event protocol goes into force with 60 extra sign-ups
4 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association is going live today with a protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from the CDS market, having signed up 1,358 entities -
Four days left to join narrowly tailored credit event protocol
4 years ago
Those market participants yet to sign up to the International Swaps & Derivatives Association’s protocol on narrowly tailored credit events have until Friday to do so -
Rude awakening for credit as US airstrike sends global shockwaves
4 years ago
It only took a day for the positive mood greeting financial markets in 2020 to turn nervous, with credit and equities faltering in early trading today after the US killed a top Iranian military official -
Investors increasingly see ESG as fiduciary duty, State Street survey reveals
4 years ago
North American investors are most likely to view ESG as a fiduciary duty, while European investors are driven by regulation, performance and reputational risk, according to results from a survey conducted by State Street Global Advisors -
Over 1,200 sign up to CDS protocol
4 years ago
Plans to improve CDS market integrity have received a boost, with the International Swaps & Derivatives Association drawing a stronger than expected response to its protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events (NTCEs). -
CDS traders get second extension on narrowly tailored credit event protocol
4 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association has extended for a second time the deadline for market participants to adhere to a protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from the CDS market -
Reality bites after credit traders abandon Brexit hedges
4 years ago
Rediscovered faith in the ability of the UK and European Union to reach an agreement before the 31 October Brexit deadline has helped fuel a surge tighter of credit spreads, led by UK financial names. But that break with caution faces an immediate reality check today, following admissions a lot more work is needed -
Credit traders' kickstand: trade troubles threaten volatility "sooner than you think"
4 years ago
Most of the credit market goes into the coming week in a more nervous mood than it began this week, with hopes for the resuming US-China trade talks tempered by the US’s opening of a new front with Europe on trade -
China ambitions checked in final roll lists for iTraxx and CDX indices
4 years ago
The index roll lists for iTraxx Europe, iTraxx ex-Japan and CDX EM, have all undergone a rethink since IHS Markit published provisional lists earlier this week, with final lists showing name changes -
iTraxx and CDX roll provisional lists reveal effects of index overhauls
4 years ago
Eagerly awaited provisional lists are out for this month’s index CDS rolls, with big changes signalled across iTraxx and CDX products -
CDS data snapshot: central bank positioning and index rolls drive flows
4 years ago
Welcome to the inaugural run of what will become a weekly insight into credit derivatives trading. Each week, Creditflux will highlight trends and dynamics from most recently available market data. We welcome feedback on measures of the market readers would like to see here in future -
US credit managers make ESG breakthrough after taking a first step via UNPRI
4 years ago
Incorporating a framework for investing in companies based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors is a challenge that US credit managers are accepting in growing numbers -
LCH's French unit adds first Japanese clearing member
4 years ago
Mizuho has signed up as the first Japanese clearing member of LCH SA, the French clearing unit of London Stock Exchange-owned LCH Group -
Buy iTraxx Europe equity tranche risk but sell Crossover mezz, says JP Morgan
4 years ago
Investors should stick with ‘search for yield’ ideas in investment grade credit, say JP Morgan credit strategists, including selling iTraxx Europe 0-3% equity tranches delta hedged, going long the 10-year Europe index, and selling credit volatility through index options while buying equity market volatility -
Investor requirements rather than performance is driving ESG push: Creditflux survey
4 years ago
Only 14% of respondents to Creditflux's global credit ESG survey said performance was the main reason they were adopting envoronmental, social and governance-themed strategies -
Isda tables plans to rid CDS market of narrowly tailored credit events
5 years ago
After lengthy deliberation, a working group of major firms is today set to publish proposals aimed at ridding the market of ‘narrowly tailored credit events’, whereby borrowers are persuaded to default on debt payments in order to trigger pay-outs for CDS holders -
Astaldi triggers first credit event in iTraxx on-the-run indices for nine years
5 years ago
Astaldi has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, the Isda-hosted EMEA Credit Determinations Committee has ruled -
Astaldi credit event question posed as its distress weighs on iTraxx Crossover
5 years ago
Astaldi, a constituent of iTraxx Crossover, has been referred to ISDA-hosted Credit Determinations Committees as a possible bankruptcy credit event – less than two weeks after the index rolled into a new series -
BlackRock becomes latest manager to explore interval fund structure for credit
5 years ago
Several managers have hit the market with the interval fund structure, as investors look to invest in illiquid strategies through an illiquid fund structure -
BlackRock seeks $1 billion for new multi-strat opportunities fund
5 years ago
The new trust will invest at least 80% of its assets in fixed income securities and up to 40% in special situations, SEC filings reveal -
Countdown begins to Creditflux Manager Awards 2018
6 years ago
The highlight of the awards season - Creditflux's Manager Awards ceremony - will take place on 9 May and submissions process is now open -
Institutional investors - does Europe still provide the best opportunities in credit?
6 years ago
Cash or synthetics, CLOs versus CMBS, senior or junior debt? Institutional investors have a variety of ways to approach credit investing and Creditflux's biannual survey of credit allocators aims to determine which market they view as offering compelling returns
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