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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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  • The Nordic region’s credit markets are experiencing something of a lockdown as the spread of Covid-19 lead to dozens of fund providers halting withdrawals last week and the effective closure of the primary market due to a shortage of liquidity.
  • Sunac China Holdings made an opportunistic buyback of some of its outstanding dollar bonds on Thursday, in a move that bankers said can add some liquidity into the debt market while instilling confidence in the real estate company’s cash reserves.
  • Corporate funding markets have been thrown into turmoil faster than anyone can remember by the aggressive onslaught of the coronavirus and government measures to put society in emergency shutdown. Borrowing costs have soared for all firms, but markets are not closed. As Jon Hay, David Rothnie and Silas Brown report, the coming weeks will sort those that can still raise cash from those that need rescuing.
  • CLO managers and investors are facing a nearly unprecedented crisis in corporate credit, but sources say that while defaults loom, they are hopeful recovery rates will deliver the market from disaster.
  • After the 2008 financial crisis, JP Morgan’s chief investment office restored the European securitization markets, buying billions of UK and Dutch RMBS. Now, market players are looking to JP Morgan and Citigroup’s CIO units again to scoop up senior securitization bonds and backstop the market.
  • Banks financing KKR’s £4.2bn purchase of waste management firm Viridor from Pennon were able to demonstrate certainty and deliverability of the financing for the deal to the Pennon board, despite chaotic markets which have seen rapid plunges in the prices of leveraged loans and high yield bonds.
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