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Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts said on Monday that despite Japanese investors sitting on the sidelines in recent months as spreads slip wider, improving swap rates still mean US CLO debt is an attractive opportunity. -
The US CLO market has shrugged off the interruption of July 4th festivities, with five managers closing new deals so far in the shortened week and a raft of other issuers closing refinancing and reset transactions.
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Euro private placement (Euro PP) transactions can be structured as loans or as bonds, depending on the preferences of both parties. But some smaller investors have withdrawn from the bond format, concerned that it brings them into the scope of MiFID II and of MAR, though market participants are hatching plans to bring them back.
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A handful of deals from Bahrain and the CIS region is all there is to keep emerging markets loans bankers busy over the next six to eight weeks, with many already heading off for summer breaks as volumes and near term pipelines dwindle to almost zero.
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After a long wave of repricing activity, the amount of new money deals has increased in the US leveraged loan market and this is helping investors gain better terms and pricing.
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On top of a busy primary market CLO pipeline, a wave of expensively priced deals sold in 2016 are expected to be reset soon, but some analysts are confident the supply can be absorbed without too much disruption to spread levels.
