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BNP Paribas has hired a senior securitized product banker to work on ABS origination and structuring. -
WhiteStar Asset Management’s expansion into London could include the purchase of an existing CLO platform, according to chief executive Gibran Mahmud. The Texas-based firm, run by the former Highland Capital Management team, announced last week that it had opened a London office headed by executive chairman Gordon Neilly.
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Eagle Point Credit Management has added Sam Yoon to its CLO investment team to assist in CLO debt trading and portfolio management. Yoon will report to Dan Ko, principal and portfolio manager at Eagle Point.
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UK government is introducing a debt freeze for suffers from mental health problems, introducing a 60 day “breathing space” where lenders will be prevented from communicating with borrowers who are in arrears. Mental health has also come to the forefront of debate around how to help so-called ‘mortgage prisoners’ stuck on high interest rates after the financial crisis.
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Former Barclays structurer Fiona Nelson is joining SME lender Funding Circle's treasury operations, working in the structuring and execution team.
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York Capital's CLO business has struck a strategic deal with Kennedy Lewis, which will see the manager rebranding to become 'Generate Advisors', and Kennedy Lewis commit $200m of equity to the shelf.
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One of the corporate bond market’s most experienced funding officials is to leave the market next month.
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Market participants will embark in the coming weeks on the difficult task of working out how to use the European Union’s sustainable finance Taxonomy, after the first criteria were published this week. In doing so, they will be conscious that the smooth tide of green finance is now breaking against the hard reality of power politics and resistance by fossil fuel industries — a clash that is rocking the Taxonomy’s credibility, writes Jon Hay.
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Sources in the CLO market have expressed doubt over the CLO trading platform known as Project Octopus launched last week by Citi and Bank of America, questioning whether the platform will succeed in expanding to a critical mass with enough other banks involved. However, some active in the nascent electronic trading market, such as KopenTech, welcome the venture as an endorsement of their vision.
