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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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Europe’s leveraged finance market is forecast to be hit by the biggest wave of defaults since 2009 next year, yet there is a disconnect with market sentiment. As Standard & Poor’s predicts the default rate to reach 8.5%, bullish investors continue to pile in. Silas Brown and Mike Turner report.
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As the CLO market enters the end of the summer, managers are getting ready to restart activity after Labor Day. But they are concerned about a potential wave of negative actions from rating agencies.
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Palmer Square Capital Management has announced its debut CLO in Europe, mandating JP Morgan for a rare static CLO, a deal structure not commonly seen in Europe.
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US CLO managers are working through a backlog of warehouses opened before the Covid-19 pandemic by splitting the facilities in half to buy back some equity and issue new deals. While in Europe, managers are tweaking deal documentation in preparation for new transactions.
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Casino developer Wynn Macau has made a rapid return to the bond market for an $850m deal, riding on an uplift in sentiment following the slow easing of travel restrictions to the Asian gambling hub.
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Standard & Poor’s expects the European default rate to climb to the highest level seen since the fallout from the last financial crisis.
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