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Dealers gear up to settle Sears CDS and rule on Ziggo successor
5 years ago
The long wait to settle the final price of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps will end today with a credit event auction, while investors could also learn whether there is successor to contracts referencing deregistered Ziggo Bond Finance -
Credit spread improvement is calm before the storm, warn strategists
5 years ago
European and US credit markets have begun 2019 with a more buoyant tone than they ended 2018, but strategists warn that bearish factors still outweigh and suggest the overall direction of spreads this year is likely to be wider -
Sears CDS auction to proceed this week as dealers reject delay request
5 years ago
Dealers on the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee have rejected a call to delay this week’s auction to settle Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps, although it was a split decision rather than unanimous vote -
Delay sought on Sears credit event auction to free up deliverables
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee will meet today to consider whether or not to delay a forthcoming auction to settle Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps, after a market participant requested more time to allow a wider pool of deliverable obligations to become available -
CDS committee faces another question on Sears as it outlines auction terms
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees has published the auction settlement terms related to Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp (SRAC), but faces one more general interest question attempting to amend the auction terms -
Parker Drilling CDS auction deliverables trade in low 50s
5 years ago
There will be two deliverable obligations into an auction to settle credit default swaps referencing Parker Drilling, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has decided -
Sears CDS squeeze is different to Hovnanian manipulation, say Cyrus' lawyers
5 years ago
Matters at the heart of an industry tussle over Sear Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps are entirely different in nature to the “narrowly tailored credit event” concerns that arose with Hovnanian, lawyers speaking on behalf of Cyrus Capital Partners have claimed -
CDS auction rules fight looms as Determinations Committee meets on Sears
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee will meet tomorrow (3 January) to make what could be a landmark decision on credit event auction rules, amid a heated industry battle over bankrupt US retailer Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp -
Europe/US relative value play opens up in battle of the bears
5 years ago
All indications point to 2019 being a tough slog for credit on both sides of the Atlantic, but a consensus is forming that US high yield has the most to worry about. That, say strategists, could present opportunities for those looking to trade one region against the other -
Sears leaves mark as credit event scrap hits deadlock
5 years ago
Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp (SRAC) has prompted the first external review of a credit event since Novo Banco in 2016, after the Americas Determinations Committee (DC) failed to reach agreement on deliverables into an auction to settle the US retailer’s credit default swaps -
Sears CDS battle lines set out in market-defining legal fight
5 years ago
Legal sides have set out their arguments in the high-stakes Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit event external review, in what an industry group of asset managers claims is a “unique opportunity to provide clarity on one of the most important definitions for the credit default swap product” -
Sears CDS settlement extends to 2019 as external review teams line up
5 years ago
Holders of Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp credit default swaps will have to wait until at least 7 January to resolve the contracts, with an external review decision on deliverables into the defaulted borrower’s credit event auction slated for 21 December -
Creditex obtains CFTC swap execution facility exemption
5 years ago
Creditex, the electronic brokerage for corporate bonds and credit default swaps, has been granted an exemption from a requirement to register with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a swap execution facility -
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 -
Crossover converges on CDX HY as Fed, earnings and heavy technicals take hold
5 years ago
Big moves of single name credits continue to hold sway over the iTraxx Europe Crossover credit default swap index, whose underperformance of US counterpart CDX HY has extended during the past week amid a big technical repositioning of flows -
Market favours retrospective over forward-looking approach to Ibor benchmark fallbacks, says Isda
5 years ago
New benchmark fallbacks for derivatives contracts that reference interbank offered rates are likely to be based on the “compounded setting in arrears rate” and the “historical mean/median approach to the spread adjustment”, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has said -
Credit sell-off has room to run and pricing is out of whack, says BNP Paribas
5 years ago
The credit market sell-off could have further to go despite recent widening and is “in the process of a late-stage business cycle unwind”, according to a strategist note seen by Creditflux -
European CDS index tightens inside US even as bonds languish
5 years ago
Credit derivatives markets have hit a key point of trend reversal this week, with the iTraxx Europe five-year CDS index trading inside its US counterpart CDX IG for the first time since May -
Sears CDS auction deliverables rejected due to lack of docs and identifiers, says DC
5 years ago
An auction to settle credit default swaps referencing Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp did not include several obligations on its initial list of deliverables due to lack of documentation or isin/cusip identifiers, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has said -
Seven deliverables valid for Sears CDS auction, as seven others split DC panel
5 years ago
There will be seven obligations deliverable into an auction on 14 November to settle credit default swaps referencing Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp, the Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has decided. But members of the 15-strong DC were split over whether to include another seven potential deliverables that did not make the cut -
Weatherford CDS routed as quarterly loss adds to ratings woes
5 years ago
Five-year credit default swaps referencing CDX HY constituent Weatherford International have weathered a battering over recent days -
Supermarket scramble as SuperValu CDS surges wider on UNFI buy-out
5 years ago
The spread of five-year credit default swaps referencing SuperValu, a CDX HY index constituent, more than doubled yesterday, according to IHS Markit data -
Sears CDS deliverables to be decided Friday ahead of 14 November credit event auction
5 years ago
The Americas Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee will meet this Friday (26 October) to decide auction terms and deliverable obligations for credit default swaps referencing Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp -
CLO baskets empty as Sears declares bankruptcy
5 years ago
Although Sears has been a prevalent name in loan trading over the years, it had been cleared from most CLO portfolios well before the event -
Isda transfers credit determinations secretary role to subsidiary
5 years ago
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has relinquished its role as secretary to the credit derivatives determinations committees (DCs) with the appointment of a new unit, DC Administration Services (DCAS), to manage this function
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