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Credit Suisse has been handed arranger duties on a new collateralised loan obligation from debut New York issuer York Capital Management, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Fitch Ratings has grown its structured credit ratings team in the US significantly over the past 18 months or so and is continuing to do so, with several more positions to fill as the market grows, especially in collateralised loan obligations.
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Loosening language around what types of assets collateralised loan obligations can hold could lead to more middle market loans making their way into broadly syndicated loan CLOs, market participants told GlobalCapital this week. -
Invesco has agreed to Volckerise one of its 2013 collateralised loan obligations, as well as modifying it to include changes to Standard & Poor’s recovery ratings that could benefit equity investors. The S&P changes could provide a crucial window for Volckerisations as refinancing activity winds down, say market participants.
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Leverage levels of the single-B rated issuers that dominate European CLO portfolios are back to 2007 levels, according to Moody’s. But despite Europe’s continued deterioration of loan covenant quality and weak economic growth, the ratings agency still expects the asset class to perform strongly in 2015.
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CLO managers could escape burdensome risk retention requirements following a law suit to block the rule on grounds it was an arbitrary and capricious overstep by financial regulators. That argument has proved successful in the past, but CLO managers are not yet changing course as a result of the news.
