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Hayfin secures its largest private credit fundraise to date with €6 billion in commitments
8 months ago
Hayfin's latest private credit fundraise exceeds target goals, securing more than €6 billion in capital commitments -
Nuclear power plant seizure amps up commodity chaos
2 years ago
The high volatility driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine is taking financial markets to new extremes, with credit ending the week once again hitting new widest spreads since mid-2020 -
Credit awash with volatility in first week but investors load up
2 years ago
It has been a volatile opening week to the year for credit, but one in which investors have allocated bullishly to credit funds -
Brookfield hires industry veteran as public securities CIO
2 years ago
Brookfield Asset Management has hired a long-serving credit and equity market professional as chief investment officer for its public securities group -
Credit index tranche trading on the rise amid low dispersion
2 years ago
At its halfway point, 2021 is shaping up as another big year for credit index tranche trading, with new investors having entered the market and dealers projecting full-year volume could vie with 2020’s record of recent times. -
"Watch the IG credit curve — we may see steepening of IG 5s10s and flattening of 10s30s"
3 years ago
Stimulus measures are supporting short tenors, and pension demand for 30-year paper is strong, so 10-year IG credit may have few buyers -
Wirecard shows that in an era of ESG analysis, governance still gets relatively short shrift
3 years ago
Wirecard’s spectacular collapse raises questions for auditors, regulators and agencies -
LP round up: managers keep fundraising hopes high as GSO targets $7.5 billion for mezz offering
3 years ago
Institutional investors allocated $1.6 billion into credit this week, according to documents seen by Creditflux -
MidOcean Credit co-founder leaves to head PE firm's credit expansion
4 years ago
Multi-strategy private equity firm Siguler Guff has poached a co-founder of MidOcean Credit Partners to lead the expansion of its credit platform -
Astor and Armory team up for US mid-market credit interval fund
4 years ago
Astor Investment Management has teamed up with Armory Capital to launch a middle-market credit interval fund, according to US regulatory filings -
Boeing/Airbus dogfight widens spreads as WTO ruling exposes Europe's trade weaknesses
4 years ago
The World Trade Organisation’s go-ahead for the US to impose $7.5 billion of tariffs on imports from the EU has sent credit spreads sharply wider. And, according to latest credit research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it exposes Europe’s “Achilles heel” -
Mediobanca hires former credit derivatives trading head
4 years ago
Mediobanca has hired an experienced credit trader to its office in Milan -
If national income were a four-cylinder engine, the US economy is really only firing on one
4 years ago
The US economy’s reliance on consumers increases the likelihood of further rate cuts and diminishing returns for credit investors -
First Abu Dhabi Bank pushes into credit derivatives with trading head hire
4 years ago
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is making a foray into credit derivatives and has hired an experienced credit trader to lead the initiative -
Senior figure rejoins Credit Suisse to head European capital markets
4 years ago
The bank is looking to build out its key European platforms - and has hired an official who left just last summer -
Credit traders' kickstand: nervous equilibrium gives way to weakness as earnings and tariffs weigh
4 years ago
Healthy fund inflows, European and US holidays, and a thinning primary market helped sustain credit spreads this week, but a weaker turn today shows this is a fragile equilibrium and company earnings misses are starting to be punished more severely -
Mizuho appoints US and European credit trading heads in leadership shake-up
4 years ago
The hires include a newly created CLO role, head of credit trading, and head of special situations and illiquid trading -
SC Lowy hires Nomura trading head to drive European loan business
5 years ago
SC Lowy, the Hong Kong headquartered fixed income boutique, has hired Nomura's head loan trader in Europe -
New manager Resco lands ex-credit head to found advisory board
5 years ago
Resco Asset Management, a London based asset manager set up last year, has appointed the first of an anticipated three advisory board members -
Isda extends German CDS protocol deadline beyond March index roll
5 years ago
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association (Isda) has extended the deadline for market participants to adhere to its German bank CDS protocol after it became clear a number of affected parties would not be signed up in time -
Deutsche plots single name CDS return and index push with two senior hires
5 years ago
Deutsche Bank has made two senior credit trading hires to its London office, with sources saying these portend a revival of its CDS market-making business -
Ex-Citi CDO trading chief joins Jefferies as head of European fixed income
5 years ago
Jefferies has appointed a former Citi European credit and pre-crisis CDO trading head to lead its European fixed income business -
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 -
Talk of carbon dioxide reduction boosting credit returns is hot air
6 years ago
There are good reasons to adopt a carbon neutral investing philosophy – just don’t expect it to have a major effect on alpha generation -
Pension giant AP4’s Erlandsson joins Granit to raise green credit fund
6 years ago
Stockholm-based asset manager Granit Fund has made a big name hire in credit, taking on Ulf Erlandsson with a view to launching a new green bond hedge fund this year
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