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US loan volume nears record levels
17 days ago
In Q1 2024 quarterly institutional loan issuance reached its second highest level on record. The period also saw the lowest quarterly share of new money issuance, at just 13% of total activity -
Global Loan Highlights 1Q24: Don’t call it a comeback
1 month ago
Loan refinancing share hits historic high, but IG issuance stymies YoY global growth -
February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights
1 month ago
Debtwire today releases the February 2024 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets. -
Schroders Capital adds new global head of business development and product
1 month ago
Schroders Capital turned to ICG to source its newly-created role of global head of business development and product -
European companies reprice EUR 16bn of loans in 2024 as window opens
1 month ago
When the European loan market started to talk about rates peaking late in 2023, repricing rehearsed a comeback, but did so effectively in January this year -
US borrowers try again with high-water mark provisions
1 month ago
In the US, high-water marking of EBITDA was rebuffed back in 2022. But the concept has been used regularly in Europe and US borrowers are once again slipping it into credit agreements -
European Union rolls out ELTIF 2.0 structure
2 months ago
The European Union’s latest regulations for its long-term investment funds — known as ELTIF 2.0 — went into effect on 10 January, ousting the old model to make it easier for both alternative investment managers and retail investors alike to tap into the market -
New report finds 2023 a record year for alternative credit M&A
3 months ago
A new report on “Acquisitions of Alternative Credit Managers” by credit specialist Gapstow forecasts that more M&A activity lies ahead for credit firms as they struggle with the challenges facing the broader investment management industry -
DebtDynamics EMEA: Size matters
3 months ago
Direct lending margins widen on small deals, with an enlarging gap to other deals in the latest DebtDynamics EMEA research -
Credit PMs remain gloomy in latest IACPM survey
3 months ago
Survey participants in the latest IACPM Credit Outlook Survey believe the euphoria seen in global financial markets during the last few months of 2023 was overdone -
Voya Investment brings in new CIO, fixed income from Morgan Stanley
3 months ago
Voya Investment Management has made some changes to its leadership team. The company is bringing in a new chief investment officer, fixed income, from Morgan Stanley as part of a wider reshuffle. -
Palmer Square liquidates 2022 CLO through BWIC
3 months ago
Palmer Square is the seller of a mammoth EUR 350m loan and bond BWIC portfolio that was auctioned last Thursday (4 January) as it has been winding down Palmer Square European Loan Funding 2022-3 -
Full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
4 months ago
Debtwire has released the full-year 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
End on a high: institutional loan and HY bond issuance rises 44% YoY
4 months ago
Leveraged finance (LevFin) issuance across the US institutional loan and high-yield (HY) bond markets totalled USD 529bn in 2023, representing a 44% year-on-year (YoY) increase -
Low margins and scarcity of LBOs hurt term loan revenues
4 months ago
Despite a resurgence in global term loan B (TLB) volume, which grew by 30% to reach $416.6bn as of December 2023, revenue earned by arranging banks on these facilities only totalled $3.0bn -
2023: a bumper year for CLO funds
4 months ago
It looks like 2023 will finish as a solid year for most credit funds, and an outstanding one for CLO funds. But funds pursuing corporate distressed strategies continued to struggle -
November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
4 months ago
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
4 months ago
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets -
Blackstone to close multi-strategy fund after assets fell nearly 90%
5 months ago
Blackstone plans to shut down its Blackstone Diversified Multi-strategy Fund by the end of the year after assets within the fund declined by nearly 90% in the last four years -
DebtDynamics EMEA | Right on time
5 months ago
Leveraged loan borrowers favouring shorter tenors pile maturities for 2028 -
ESG initiatives should avoid unfavourable reactions by pursuing substance over form
5 months ago
By any financial measure, the collaboration of trans activist Dylan Mulvaney with Bud Light hurt the brand. What was formerly America’s best-selling beer saw its market share collapse — from over 35% in May 2023 to around 9% in June — because of a boycott by US conservatives after a 60-second TikTok video aired of Mulvaney drinking it. -
M&G launches first European private credit fund
5 months ago
M&G Investments is the latest firm looking to individual investors as an avenue for fundraising with the launch of a new ELTIF, dubbed the M&G Corporate Credit Opportunities Fund -
Hayfin appoints new US CLO head
6 months ago
Hayfin Capital Management has announced it has recruited Peter Swanson to head its High-Yield and Syndicated Loans team in New York -
US CLO credit Air Methods Corporation files for bankruptcy
6 months ago
Air Methods Corporation, a widely held name in the US CLO market, filed for Chapter 11 this morning reporting USD 1bn to USD 10bn in liabilities. -
Aquarian buys minority stake in Obra
6 months ago
Obra Capital revealed in Monday that it had sold a minority equity ownership stake to Aquarian Holdings
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