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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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Plenty of CLO managers are still failing their weighted average rating factor (WARF) tests on both sides of the Atlantic, limiting their capacity to buy new lower-rated deals, even as banks bring some of their most challenging offerings to market as the quarter closes.
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Vaibhav Piplapure, widely known as VP, has signed on for a second stint in KKR’s credit business, returning to the firm as a London-based managing director sourcing asset-based finance and speciality lending opportunities.
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Asian sponsor-backed firms are following their Western peers in tapping the loan market for dividend recapitalisations, encouraged by a buoyant stock price and low debt levels. Rashmi Kumar reports. -
Extra large deals continue to flood into the market, with Elmwood Asset Management resetting its $930m 2019 deal Elmwood CLO II.
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The fact that a large US insurance company could offer the English Football League better lending terms than UK banks or other investors is revealing. UK lenders are shying away from deals, which has opened the doors to institutional investors. The speed with which a tailor-made EFL deal was done shows how quickly they can replace traditional creditors.
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US institutional investor MetLife has offered a more attractive loan package to the English Football League — England's second, third and fourth professional football divisions — than the UK government and bank lenders.
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