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Credit investors find bright spots in gloomy outlook: Credit Rendezvous Q4 2022
1 year ago
Clouds are looming over financial markets as the fourth quarter begins — so investors are moving away from diversified approaches in favour of tailored investments and relative value plays -
CLO managers in the mix for first US credit event auction since 2020
1 year ago
CDS contracts referencing Talen Energy Supply will be settled by credit event auction next month. And Talen's recovery levels will have relevance for a number of CLO managers that have held onto the company's debt - in some cases having bought more very recently -
SEC's CDS proposals could impede market rather than help it: Barclays
1 year ago
New rules proposed by the US Securities & Exchange Commissions to tighten oversight of the CDS market could mean big changes for the market and have the effect of sapping activity, warn Barclays credit strategists in a note published on Thursday -
"Faltering oil supply is lamentable at a time of strategic and moral shortfall"
2 years ago
We need to accept the pain and cut dependence on Russian oil today -
Loans will be winners in bearish year for credit: BNP Paribas
2 years ago
Floating rate loans are best positioned for a year of widening credit spreads, but high yield bonds will outperform investment grade and EM credit is set for losses, says BNP Paribas in its 2022 outlook -
BNP Paribas bolsters credit business with European strategy head hire
2 years ago
BNP Paribas is looking to strategy to help drive growth in its credit business and has hired a head of European credit strategy from UBS -
There's still time to pick up pennies in credit before steamroller arrives: BNP Paribas
2 years ago
Declining dealer inventories, rising fund cash balances, and a greater prevalence of hedging have added up to produce a credit market that is positioned too short, according to BNP Paribas strategists -
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 -
Lingering covid vies with inflation as top credit threat, finds BofA
2 years ago
Covid-19 lingering is catching up with inflation as credit investors' number one worry, Bank of America's August survey has found. The picture for central bank purchases is bullish, but strategists see industrial and bank senior bonds as shorts for contrarians over the summer -
"Pain is on the way: spreads are too tight, while compression and carry are done. But what if it's not?"
2 years ago
Welshcake reminds us that mid-cycle portfolio management is a funny old game -
CLO demand drives loan outperformance versus bonds
2 years ago
Leveraged loans could be set for their strongest run of outperformance over high yield bonds since 2017, say investors and strategists — if the CLO engine and an influx of money to funds continues to drive flows -
Anti-CDS tactics enter European bond market as high yield pipeline builds
4 years ago
‘Anti-net short’, or ‘anti-CDS’, provisions are set to enter the European corporate bond market for the first time, as Merlin Entertainments and Kantar wrap up roadshows for deals financing their acquisitions by private equity firms -
Net short language could force lenders to sell at a loss
4 years ago
Signs are growing that ‘net short’ provisions in bonds and loans are getting closer to hitting CDS investors, with two instances in recent weeks of the language expanding both in geographical and functional remit. -
Rallye CDS auction date set with three initial deliverables
4 years ago
A credit event auction to settle CDS referencing Rallye, the parent of French supermarket chain Casino, will take place on 27 June, with the Determinations Committee having agreed an initial list of three deliverable obligations -
Deutsche Bank hires emerging market credit trader
4 years ago
Deutsche Bank has added to its credit team in London by hiring a trader of emerging market cash debt and CDS -
Welshcake: Sirius has made a strong move in CDS - if it hits the right targets
4 years ago
The most tragic of human traits is the proclivity for our inventions to come back and bite us -
DC accepts New Look failure-to-pay credit event question
4 years ago
The Europe, Middle East and Africa Determinations Committee has accepted a request to rule on whether New Look has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event -
Steinhoff CDS auction in limbo due to lock-up and CVA
4 years ago
A date to settle CDS referencing Steinhoff Europe had still to be agreed as Creditflux went to press — more than a month on from when the EMEA Determinations Committee (DC) ruled that the company had triggered a failure-to-pay credit event. -
Credit Suisse adds special situations trading head among raft of hires
4 years ago
Credit Suisse has continued to build momentum in its credit business with the hire of a managing director to head special situations and loan trading with its Europe, Middle East and Africa credit products business, following on from nine others across its London and New York credit business -
Demonised triple Bs could outshine angelic neighbours
5 years ago
There has been a stampede to denounce triple B corporate credit, but investors ditching this rating band may not only miss solid returns but find bigger problems up the spectrum, investors and analysts tell Creditflux. -
Windstream set for high CDS pay-out as DC picks initial deliverable obligations
5 years ago
Windstream Holdings CDS protection holders look set for a high pay-out, as the cheapest deliverable obligations into the defaulted company’s credit event auction are quoted in the mid-20s -
Don't worry about CDS, CLOs or excess leverage - it's a day of celebration
5 years ago
The market cycle is going to turn and something will go badly wrong. But guaranteed it won’t be any of the things in credit you keep reading about -
Crossover sell-off risks heightened after Brexit vote, says BNP Paribas
5 years ago
The risk of a bearish pullback in European crossover credits has increased as a result of yesterday’s UK parliament vote against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit approach, according to a BNP Paribas trading note -
First Data takeover foreshadows inflows for CLOs that hold the debt
5 years ago
CLO managers that hold portions of First Data Corporation’s $11.5 billion syndicated term debt could find themselves with lots of cash to redeploy later this year if Fiserv completes its acquisition of the financial services company -
Sears CDS external review panel named to solve Determinations Committee impasse
5 years ago
The North America Determinations Committee has selected an external review panel to decide whether two Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp debt obligations can be delivered into an auction to settle the US retailer’s credit default swaps, having failed to achieve a strong enough quorum among its own 15 members
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