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Powell outlook brings risk buyers out in droves, but reality check looks soon to follow
1 year ago
Comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday on the pace of future rate hikes have prompted a sharp rally across global financial markets, including credit. But dissenting voices have already begun to point out the enthusiasm is likely overdone -
Soft mood music abruptly dashed as Fed and BoE rile markets
1 year ago
The credit market’s strong run of improvement has come to an end this week, with the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England delivering a reality check to hopes of a more dovish path forward on interest rates -
Credit faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
1 year ago
With short term rates outstripping nominal GDP growth, the credit cycle is entering its next and final stage – one in which corporate defaults will pick up but high quality borrowers should outperform -
Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
1 year ago
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service -
UK credit spreads rally for Rishi
1 year ago
UK credit spreads have rallied sharply on Monday with the victory of Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country’s third prime minister of the year -
Deutsche hires credit strategy head from rival bank
1 year ago
Deutsche Bank has hired a new head to oversee European and US credit strategy -
Mid market CLO league tables: Golub gains ground on Blackstone with rare euro-tranche deal
1 year ago
Four managers - Blue Owl, Golub, Monroe and PennantPark - priced new issue mid market CLOs in September -
PGIM goes short with new three-year reinvestment CLO
1 year ago
PGIM priced a new CLO on Friday, opting for a shorter-dated structure with a one-year call-lock and three-year reinvestment period -
Monroe prints second middle market CLO of the year
1 year ago
Monroe Capital Partners priced its first middle market CLO since February on Tuesday, and the largest middle market CLO in four months -
AGL stands alone with 190bp CLO triple As attaching at 37% in new issue
1 year ago
AGL Credit Management priced a new US CLO on Friday via BNP Paribas, scoring a market-tight triple A print of 190 basis points over Sofr - without the benefit of a junior triple A tranche -
US-led sell off shifts index roll technicals with key rates decisions looming
1 year ago
Further deterioration in global economic outlook is causing credit spreads to move back to the midpoint or wide end of their recent range, after a week of reversal from the previously more optimistic September trading run -
Spreads gap wider with UK inflation adding to cocktail of concerns
1 year ago
Evidence of financial markets hitting a resistance point after three weeks of improvement is growing, with Monday’s bearish shift extending over into early trading Tuesday -
Relief rally extends despite US and EU sending mixed signals on recession
1 year ago
Growth and inflation data on Friday has added impetus for the European Central Bank to maintain a hawkish stance at its September meeting, despite US signals suggesting that economy is in recession -
Redding Ridge prices fourth US new issue CLO of 2022
1 year ago
Redding Ridge Asset Management, the CLO manager arm of Apollo Global Management, returned to the primary CLO market on Friday -
Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
1 year ago
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions -
Euro double As and US triple As offer best value in CLOs: BNP Paribas
1 year ago
Secondary market double A rated tranches offer the best relative value in European CLOs’ capital structures, while US triple As in primary starting to look attractive, according to BNP Paribas credit strategists -
Weekly US CLO volume tops $3 billion as AGL prices
1 year ago
AGL Credit Management brought weekly US CLO issuance over $3 billion on Thursday by printing a new issue deal via BNP Paribas -
KopenTech launches digital peer-to-peer CLO trading platform
1 year ago
Los Angeles-based FinTech platform Kopentech has launched a digital peer-to-peer trading platform for CLOs -
PGIM scores tightest CLO triple A print in two weeks
1 year ago
PGIM priced a new CLO named Dryden 108 on Thursday, scoring the market's tightest triple A print in over two weeks -
Points up front: Who is going into the Creditflux interview room?
1 year ago
The Creditflux CLO Symposium brought together 620 market participants from across the globe, and they had one question on their lips: what’s going on in the Creditflux interview room? -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Wide yields mean high times again for corporate hybrids
1 year ago
Prolonged disruption in financial markets has painted an ever-bleaker picture for credit fund returns and flows in 2022 -
Think of the arb, say US CLO panelists after big loan drop
1 year ago
Far from being a cause for alarm, falling loan prices have brought a welcome opportunity in new CLO issuance for managers and investors, according to speakers at the Creditflux Symposium in London today -
Macro drivers set to give lift to CDS tranche trading
1 year ago
Credit index tranches look to be on course for a busy year, with volumes robust so far in 2022, despite key relative value trading themes having not delivered so far -
Nuveen new CLO brings triple As at market tights of 142bp
2 years ago
Nuveen Asset Management priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing its triple A notes at the market tights of 142 basis points over Sofr
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