Refine Search
Article Categories
Strategy Tags
- Direct lending (6)
- Emerging markets (5)
- High yield bonds (29)
- Investment grade credit (remove)
- Structured credit (10)
- CLO (9)
- Distressed debt (10)
- Leveraged loans (7)
- Synthetic/SRT (27)
- ABL Financing (5)
Geography Tags
-
Fed unveils IG bond buying programme and direct lending plans
4 years ago
The US Federal Reserve has unveiled further measures to support the US economy alongside plans to establish a direct lending initiative - Main Street Business Lending Programme – to support lending to small-and-medium sized businesses -
Credit traders' kickstand: rolling with the pain, as relative value trades come unstuck
4 years ago
What a difference a month - and a pandemic - make. This time in February, no-one could have imagined a global financial crisis would be unfolding, that credit performance would be a battle between a virus and some of the biggest government and central bank interventions on record, that today's iTraxx Europe and CDX index rolls would traverse unprecedented ranges, that option expiry strikes would be blown beyond recognition, or that cash and CDS differentials would be whipsawing with such violence -
CDS index rolls to proceed on time despite record volatility and lockdowns
4 years ago
This Friday's move into new CDS index series will go ahead as scheduled, administrator IHS Markit has said, having sought advice on whether to postpone the roll date due to coronavirus-led market volatility -
Credit traders' kickstand: this is not a drill
4 years ago
Freefall in financial markets has brought one of the credit market’s most volatile sessions on record, as coronavirus cases globally near 100,000 and the WHO has warned governments are not doing nearly enough. iTraxx Crossover one-day volatility is up with the 2008 global financial crisis and 2011 European sovereign crisis -
Portfolio manager returns to BlueCrest after four years
4 years ago
The former head of BlueCrest Capital Management's US multi-strategy credit group has returned four years after his departure from the firm -
Arizona pension to deploy up to $700 million a year in private credit
4 years ago
Arizona Public Safety Employee System is looking to deploy $600-700 million in private credit strategies per year in order to meet its target allocation, according to board documents seen by Creditflux. -
Creditex obtains CFTC swap execution facility exemption
5 years ago
Creditex, the electronic brokerage for corporate bonds and credit default swaps, has been granted an exemption from a requirement to register with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a swap execution facility -
The perception of liquidity is often not the same as the reality
6 years ago
Investec Asset Management's Jeff Boswell takes our credit quiz and discusses liquidity in Europe, the former "darling of the European debt market" Vivarte and the Matrix -
Join the debate: most memorable moment in credit
6 years ago
At Creditflux we’ve now produced 200 monthly magazines since Fishknife first came up with the idea of tracking the global credit markets in 2001). We asked several key credit industry officials about their most memorable moment in credit -
Fund manager with UHNWI following raises $25 million for long-short credit
6 years ago
An asset manager based in Florida, which has successfully sold credit funds to ultra high-net-worth individuals, has rased $25 million for a long-short credit fund -
Manager plans first post-crisis CLO backed by infrastructure assets
7 years ago
Barclays is marketing the first 2.0 infrastructure CLO, according to market sources -
Past returns: drawing crowds is not easy for bond trading platforms
7 years ago
.
Want all the latest news, comment, analysis and data?