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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 -
Investors shrug at new Evergrande bond deadline a week on from roll havoc
2 years ago
Chinese real estate giant Evergrande looks unlikely to meet a $45 million bond payment due on Wednesday despite reports it plans to sell a $1.5 billion commercial bank stake. But credit markets are showing very little reaction despite initial default concerns having up-ended CDS index rolls only last week -
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. -
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 -
Tabula launches ETF to short US high yield credit
3 years ago
Tabula Investment Management, a fixed income exchange traded fund (ETF) provider, has added a product that offers short position exposure to North American high yield corporate credit -
Texas pension appoints CIO
4 years ago
Teacher Retirement System of Texas has appointed a new chief investment officer, effective from January 2020 -
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 -
Credit traders' kickstand: nervous equilibrium gives way to weakness as earnings and tariffs weigh
5 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
5 years ago
The hires include a newly created CLO role, head of credit trading, and head of special situations and illiquid trading -
Permira adds hire to start credit opportunities business
5 years ago
Permira Debt Managers is building out a unit in London to invest in special situations and credit opportunities and has hired a distressed and high yield specialist to help establish the business -
I still love to sit in front of computer screens to try and understand markets
5 years ago
Jochen Felsenheimer of Xaia Investment takes our credit quiz -
Oak Hill reshuffles leadership in Europe
5 years ago
Oak Hill Advisors has appointed three long-serving members of its investment and business development teams to lead the European office -
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 -
Former BlackRock portfolio manager lands at start-up credit firm Tresidor
5 years ago
Tresidor Investment Management – the new credit manager led by BlackRock’s former head of European credit Michael Phelps and ex-Goldman Sachs synthetic CDO head Edgar Senior – has added a credit portfolio manager to its team ahead of its maiden fund launch -
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 -
Pacific Gas & Electric credit event posed following Chapter 11 filing
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has been asked to rule on whether Pacific Gas and Electric has triggered a credit event, after the San Francisco headquartered firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in its history -
Former London Stock Exchange CEO joins CQS
5 years ago
CQS has moved into 2019 under a new leadership structure with Xavier Rolet being appointed chief executive officer. -
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 -
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 hangs in balance as EMEA DC meets
5 years ago
The fate of credit default swap contracts referencing Astaldi could be decided today, with the Isda-hosted EMEA Credit Determinations Committee meeting to decide if the Italian builder has triggered a bankruptcy credit event -
Barclays hires another senior EM trader as Turkey continues to roil markets
5 years ago
Barclays has made an experienced hire to its EM credit trading team in London -
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
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