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Hayfin hires former Barings official to new head of fund finance role
3 years ago
The new job reflects the growing number of financings Hayfin handles, sources say -
Cautious open sets credit at odds with equity
3 years ago
A positive open to the week for European stock markets is not reflected in cautious credit trading, with spreads generally flat to slightly wider -
Pizza Express serves up credit event question after very long wait
3 years ago
Pizza Express has been proposed as a failure-to-pay credit event to the Emea Determinations Committee, following the UK food retailer's decision not to make interest payments on bonds -
Credit spreads see-saw as US tech slump puts market in reverse
3 years ago
A sharp about-face in sentiment, driven in part by US tech sector weakness, has put credit markets back to more or less where they began the week - having hit new post-covid tights in between -
Credit event auctions mount as European resistance breaks
3 years ago
Two constituent defaults in iTraxx Crossover — the first to hit the European on-the-run index in almost two years — have made 2020 the second busiest year ever for credit event auctions -
Alcentra appoints DeSimone as CEO
3 years ago
Alcentra has appointed Johnathan DeSimone as chief executive officer following David Forbes-Nixon’s decision to step down and take an investment role at the firm -
Hema and Matalan deliverable lists outline payouts for CDS
3 years ago
Only one bond looks to be deliverable into a credit event auction to settle Hema CDS contracts, while two notes will be deliverable into Matalan CDS contracts -
Ensco CDS leap wider on credit event trigger
3 years ago
CDS contracts referencing Ensco International, a Houston based subsidiary of offshore driller Valaris, have shot wider after the Americas Determinations Committee ruled the company has triggered a bankruptcy credit event -
HY rallies as curve steepening picks up
3 years ago
Credit spreads may have normalised since the March/April peaks of the coronavirus sell-off, but relative value investors are still finding a wide array of trading dislocations beneath the headline numbers -
Guernsey puts Highland wrangles out to pasture
3 years ago
A royal court’s dismissal of proceedings in Guernsey could spell the beginning of the end in Highland Capital Management’s legal action against former employee Josh Terry -
Credit hedge funds (September 2020)
3 years ago
Monthly credit hedge fund tables -
Ucits at a glance: Five funds lift YTD returns above 5%
3 years ago
Five funds have managed to pull their year to date figures above 5%; Loomis Sayles (7.50%), Algebris (5.82%), Pictet (5.53%), Amundi (5.36%) and Advent (5.11%) -
Credit funds at a glance (September 2020)
3 years ago
A round-up of fundraising and people moves -
Fund performance: Almost a third of credit funds reach positive YTD returns
3 years ago
July has been a successful month for many credit funds, despite the recovery peaking in May and June -
CLO funds top rankings, but still have ground to make up
3 years ago
CLOs may have taken a hammering in March but, for the fourth consecutive month, funds that invest in these assets dominate our ranking of the top performing credit funds -
They said it: "We’re going to change the world of finance"
3 years ago
Big ambitions in blockchain -
Past returns: Trying a different route to Balliol
3 years ago
Five years ago in Creditflux we reported on Numen Capital absorbing credit hedge fund manager Balliol Capital -
Hema and Matalan auctions set as DC ponders Ensco credit event
3 years ago
Dates have been set for credit event auctions to settle two constituent defaults in iTraxx Crossover — the first to hit the European on-the-run index in almost two years -
Push tighter takes credit indices back to pre-March levels
3 years ago
Credit markets are hitting new tights this week, with European spreads today following the example set by the US on Monday -
Valaris and Ensco posed to DC as bankruptcy credit events
3 years ago
Valaris and its subsidiary Ensco International Incorporated have been proposed to the Americas Determinations Committee as bankruptcy credit events after the group filed for chapter 11 protection in August -
Credit fundraising: distressed keeps in favour but CLO ETFs emerge
3 years ago
Five months into global lockdown and distressed debt funds are still proving popular, but several managers have found success pitching other types of credit strategies -
Europcar hits bumps on the road less travelled
3 years ago
A rough road for Europcar this week has taken its bond and CDS spreads back towards the outer reaches, setting the French car rental firm apart from a general improvement in fortunes for names at the wider end of the market -
Credit Suisse shakes up leveraged finance with origination and restructuring co-heads
3 years ago
Credit Suisse has made a number of senior promotions in its leveraged finance team, appointing two new global co-heads of leveraged finance origination and restructuring -
Credit hits new tights as US covid treatment fuels hope
3 years ago
Credit markets are starting the week on a strong tone much as they traded on Friday, as optimism for a US approved coronavirus treatment and the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole virtual meeting on Thursday outweighed concern about rising European covid-19 cases -
Hema triggers failure-to-pay credit event
3 years ago
Hema, the Dutch retailer, has triggered a failure to pay credit event, the EMEA Determinations Committee has ruled - making it the second default this month to dent the iTraxx Crossover index and its tranches
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