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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 -
Funds round-up: Feb-2024 - managers turn to European wealth
2 months ago
European private credit managers turn to the wealthy in our roundup of notable fundraising in February 2024. -
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 -
Banks support triple As as insurers and asset managers step awa
4 months ago
While attention is focused on what the proposed risk-weighted asset (RWA) implementation of Basel 3 will mean for US banks, European banks have already become the dominate buyers of CLO triple A paper. -
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 -
Pensions pivot from vanilla private credit to focus on niche sectors
5 months ago
Retirement and pension funds continue to pump money into private credit, enticed by the prospect of higher returns. But as the market grows, more are turning their attention to niche sectors, such as ESG-oriented investments and specialised credit. -
Polls close tomorrow for the Creditflux CLO Census 2023
6 months ago
With two days of voting left the seventh instalment of Creditflux’s CLO Census is already the biggest ever with 397 participants -
Loan Highlights 3Q23: Loan volumes remain significantly lower than historical averages
7 months ago
Capital markets loan activity continued to struggle in the third quarter of 2023, as issuers in the Americas and Europe held off from tapping markets -
Fund performance
7 months ago
Positive August for credit sees CLO funds on top again -
Blackstone loses head of private credit in Europe and APAC
7 months ago
Senior managing director will stay until the end of the year before stepping back for personal reasons -
Securities regulators call for improvement in practices in CLO market
7 months ago
IOSCO, an international policy forum for securities regulators, has called for improvement in practices in both the leveraged loan and CLO markets. -
Barings strikes strategic partnership agreement with Lakemore to support CLO issuance
9 months ago
Barings has entered into a strategic partnership with Lakemore Partners to support the growth of the manager's CLO platform -
Loan Highlights 2Q23: Running aground
10 months ago
The global loan market endured a bleak first half of the year, with the overall 1H23 volume falling 28% year-on-year (YoY) to $1.9 trillion, the lowest showing since 2012. -
CLO market turns international as new investors land
1 year ago
The global CLO market attracted new investors over the first quarter of 2023, according to market sources, while others have moved across the capital stack or into different regions than those to which they have been accustomed -
Bain reveals $4bn of direct lending investments in 2023
1 year ago
Bain Capital Credit says it invested $4 billion in private equity-sponsored, middle-market companies last year. -
Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
1 year ago
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs), Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. -
Credit funds at a glance (February 2023)
1 year ago
A round up of people moves and fundraising -
Brighter start for credit in 2023 as investors return with bid for risk
1 year ago
Credit markets have opened the year on a positive footing, with Europe particularly buoyant as investors lift CDS hedges they placed at the end of 2022 and some bonds receive enthusiastic bids in the secondary market -
Credit belatedly gives up gains after flurry of central bank hikes
1 year ago
Credit markets barely flickered on Wednesday’s US Federal Reserve announcements, but successive central bank rate hikes on Thursday have caused spreads to widen as traders prepare for the festive season slowdown -
Credit hedge fund returns (December 2023)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns -
Credit funds at a glance (December 2023)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit -
Down in the hole: investors hedge their bets ahead of pivotal Powell
1 year ago
Credit spreads are shifting wider on Friday, after an initial improvement, as investors try to balance positions ahead of what could be a pivotal speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell -
Credit Rendezvous: Pass masters
2 years ago
Most often, a credit market downturn has its roots mired in one big, blatant obstacle that credit managers have to focus their attention to overcome. But right now, it’s not the dominant risk factor that has to be defeated, it’s the sheer number of them... -
German property co hits new wides as investors scrutinise investigation report
2 years ago
The bearish momentum that gripped financial markets on Friday has spilled over the weekend into Monday's session, with an especially big move in the debt of one German real estate borrower taking it to worrisome spread levels -
Russia extends rally as DC rules against repudiation / moratorium
2 years ago
Russian Federation CDS contracts rallied strongly for a second day on Thursday, after the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee ruled a repudiation / moratorium had not occurred on the country's sovereign debt
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