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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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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. -
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.
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WhiteStar Asset Management, the Texas-based credit manager which sponsors the Trinitas CLO shelf, has opened a London office, appointing Gordon Neilly to run it as executive chairman of WhiteStar Asset Management Europe.
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Investors appeared happy to tolerate soaring leverage in favoured sectors, such as tech or pharma, on Thursday, while Covid-19 recovery candidates are beginning to look expensive, as much of the rally that began in November has played out.
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Commodity trader Trafigura has sold US private placements, according to market sources, in its sixth issuance in the market.
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The CLO market is expected to take a pause after the oversupply of the first months of the year, allowing investors to digest the unprecedented volume of new issue, refi and reset, and giving much needed breathing space to market participants. Managers, sources say, are in less of a rush to lock in tight spreads, as the market is considered healthy and more stable in the medium term.
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