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Dealers power up as tranche trading hits new heights
3 years ago
A big year for index tranche trading has taken volume within grasping distance of full-year 2019, a post-financial crisis record, with a deepening pool of dealers adding support -
Morgan Stanley expands index tranche trading with London hire
3 years ago
Morgan Stanley has added to its index tranche trading prowess by hiring a London-based market maker for the asset class as well as credit options -
Swedish fund nears public listing after big gains on CLO and tranche trades
3 years ago
Stockholm-based Ymer SC is moving forward with plans to list its structured credit fund on the Nordic Growth Market exchange in Sweden -
Index tranche volumes go into overdrive as CSOs stall
3 years ago
CDS index tranche trading has gathered pace during the coronavirus pandemic, putting the asset class on course for a post-2008 crisis record. -
KKR takes covid-19 hit on flagship credit funds and lev fin
4 years ago
KKR took a 16% hit to returns on its alternative credit flagship funds amid the first quarter coronavirus downturn and a 13% loss on leveraged credit, taking these into negative territory for the last 12 months. The firm's private equity portfolio also slumped by 12% -
Coronavirus volatility drives CDS clearing surge at LCH
4 years ago
CDS volume at LCH, the central clearing house of the London Stock Exchange, blew previous records out of the water in this year's first quarter, underscoring how the asset class served as a leading signal in the onset of the coronavirus pandemic -
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 -
Credit reels back to January 2019 levels as coronavirus impact spreads
4 years ago
A more positive opening for European credit today proved short-lived, as coronavirus developments caused the market to reverse its modest improvement early on to careen back to some of the widest levels in over a year -
Credit traders’ kickstand: a year comes undone in a week as world faces coronavirus moment of truth
4 years ago
As the coronavirus outbreak reaches a 'decisive point', according to the World Health Organisation, one of most volatile weeks in recent memory has hauled credit spreads from their post-financial crisis tights to much wider levels last seen in the first half of 2019 and, in the case of emerging markets, more than a year ago. -
Axa terminates $14 billion fixed income mandate with AB as it takes assets in-house
4 years ago
Axa has terminated a $14 billion taxable-fixed income investment mandate with AB -
Elfa partners with LMA to develop standardised ESG disclosure topics
4 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association, in partnership with the Loan Market Association, has launched an engagement programme to develop a standard set of material ESG disclosure topics on which issuers and borrowers can be expected to report publicly -
Credit traders' kickstand: full reversal for Crossover as coronavirus spreads
4 years ago
European high yield CDS index iTraxx Crossver is ending the week back at around 230bp, in effect undoing all its improvement since the start of December -
Pimco launches listed multi-sector global credit fund
4 years ago
Known as Pimco Tactical Income Fund, the fund will invest in a range of global credit strategies and will list on the New York Stock Exchange -
Credit traders' kickstand: convergence trades rewarded as financials outperform
4 years ago
Compression is the watchword in credit at the start of the year, with the market’s navigation of post-crisis tight prints bringing an outperformance of financial names over corporate borrowers and US over European indices -
Tabula launches ETF of iTraxx Europe bond issuers
4 years ago
Tabula Investment Management, a European fixed income exchange traded fund provider, has launched a product that aims to enable liquid hedging by tracking bonds of companies comprising the iTraxx Europe investment grade CDS index -
This is not just wider: M&S stands apart as CDS picks new tights
4 years ago
As credit spreads head back into post-crisis record tight territory amid a softening of tone between the US and Iran, retailer Marks & Spencer is bucking the rally having issued a profit warning today -
Oil supply concerns grease CDS relative value trade
4 years ago
With credit spreads having begun 2020 circling post-crisis tight prints, there is not much room across the market for improvement and plenty of susceptibility to jitters. But at least one CDS index shows scope to narrow further and could form part of a relative value trade -
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 -
Credit traders enter 2020 a world away from 2019's opening blues
4 years ago
CDS markets are showing what a difference a year makes, with indices beginning 2020 at post-crisis record or near record tights. And concerns such as Brexit or US-China (and lately UK-China) tensions are doing little to dampen the mood in today's buoyant trading session -
Traders face Monday deadline for manufactured credit event protocol
4 years ago
Interested parties have until Monday to sign up to a protocol aimed at stamping out narrowly tailored credit events from the CDS market, with the International Swaps & Derivatives Association having given extensions on the original deadline -
Diverging views emerge over performance of ESG investing, RBC survey reveals
4 years ago
Investors which incorporate ESG principles are convinced it adds value, but those who do not are more uncertain, according to a survey by RBC Global Asset Management -
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 -
LCH and Ice prepare to battle it out over options clearing
4 years ago
A fully cleared market for CDS options is getting closer, with the two largest central clearing counterparties (CCPs) set to expand their services. -
BlueBay launches global leveraged finance fund
4 years ago
BlueBay Asset Management has launched a global leveraged finance fund that is able to allocate towards high yield bonds, leveraged loans, structured credit and investment grade assets -
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
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