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"If anything is to be salvaged from the rest of 2022, the economy needs a hero — and quickly"
1 year ago
Something has gotta give as a recession looms in the US. Might it be energy? -
Can someone call the triple A? We’ve stalled
1 year ago
CLO issuers are in need of AAA roadside assistance. Despite the emergence of new buyers, a lack of senior CLO investors — particularly US banks — has brought the primary market to a halt -
They said it: "We are proud to be moving our industry in a direction that will bring greater liquidity..."
1 year ago
Brian Carosielli, co-head of global credit trading at Bank of America, on a new CLO trading platform -
Points up front: BofA takes both sides
1 year ago
As dealers joined forces for the Octaura electronic trading platform, KopenTech announced a rival... -
CLOs aim to pick up pieces as fear drives dip in loans
1 year ago
Leveraged loan investors grew skittish in June, with prices slipping as the likelihood of a US recession increased, according to market sources. -
Loan traders eagerly await electronic trading solution
1 year ago
The announcement of Octaura’s electronic loan and CLO trading platform last month has been met with positivity by market participants, who laud the unified approach taken by large investment banks in supporting the initiative -
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 -
CLO spreads are not pricing in recession: JP Morgan
1 year ago
CLOs are priced fairly for a growth slowdown but not a recession, according to JP Morgan credit strategists, who warn spreads are at risk if US growth contracts -
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 -
Oaktree identifies CLOs among top picks in credit
1 year ago
Oaktree Capital Management’s head of performing credit Armen Panossian has outlined CLO tranches among his three favoured investments in this market -
Octaura's real-time trading solution paves way for loans and CLOs to drop illiquid tag
1 year ago
The unprecedented cooperation between CLO trading desks that culminated last week in the launch of Octaura could change the way credit investors judge the relative value merits of loans and CLOs versus liquid alternatives such as high yield bonds -
US loan market drops to record low for 2022
1 year ago
The loan market reached a new record low for the year on Thursday with the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index trading at an average bid of just 93.66 cents on the dollar -
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 -
Let's play the Great CLO B-wic Price Drop
1 year ago
When CLO liquidity is weak, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. That's what happened last week as part of a novel auction set up by a CLO investor -
SMBC brings in experienced CLO trader after departure
1 year ago
SMBC Nikko has filled a gap on its CLO trading desk -
Loan dip brings longest CLO primary pause since January
1 year ago
CLO primary business has been put on pause as the market grapples with a selloff in loans, meaning no new transactions have been issued so far this week -
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... -
High yield / loan slowdown affects year-end projections and pricing: Barclays
2 years ago
A sharp decline in primary market activity means expectations for high yield bond and even leveraged loan issuance need to be lowered, say Barclays credit strategists. And that in turn has implications for relative value -
"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 -
"Having tighter CLO debt costs will not be enough for brand names to outperform more agile competitors"
2 years ago
The drop in loan and CLO prices today is unlike any previous downturn — but again it will pay to be agile -
CLOs look attractive after corporate rally - but not all tranches: Barclays
2 years ago
Rallying corporate cash credit spreads over the past two weeks have widened the basis with CLOs and made these products look attractive again, according to Barclays strategists -
CLO prices drop under weight of massive secondary volumes while CDS rallies
2 years ago
CLO spreads have underperformed versus liquid credit instruments in the past week after a massive $2.3 billion of paper hit the secondary US CLO market. But that could create opportunities for investors. -
CLO sellers bide their time amid widening Ukraine crisis
2 years ago
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves across the world, and CLOs, despite limited exposure to either country, have felt its impact. Those signs are most visible in the secondary market -
Global CLO trading lab: Payments season prompts equity to surge but short-dated bonds trade low
2 years ago
Over the last two weeks, $2.8 billion of US CLOs and €640 million of European CLO paper have appeared on b-wics, with equity making up 33% and 40% of the respective markets -
CLOs and loans find footing as post-Sofr trends emerge
2 years ago
The US leveraged loan and CLO markets transitioned to a new base rate from 1 January without the lengthy issuance pause that was widely predicted in the months leading up to the switch
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