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Management at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley used second quarter earnings calls to reassure investors about their exposure to leveraged loans, under questioning from RBC Capital Markets’ Gerard Cassidy, as fears grow about leverage levels and weak covenants. -
CIFC Asset Management, one of the largest CLO managers in the world, has recently turned its attention to Europe, with the hire of Joshua Hughes to start marketing and fundraising for European loan investments. It is planning to build out the business in the coming months with more London-based hires, including a senior investment professional to lead that side of the business — but it’s not diving headfirst into the increasingly crowded European CLO market.
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The Bank of England this week laid out its plan to build reliable term rates from the sterling overnight interbank average rate (Sonia) that it has chosen to replace Libor, recommending that overnight index swaps on the rate be traded on venue.
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A move is under way to broaden the idea of Science-Based Targets — one of the most ambitious wings of the business world’s fight against climate change — to take in other ‘planetary boundaries’ such as fresh water and land.
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Natixis will soon embark on an experiment that may be the first of its kind — introducing a green weighting factor to its internal economic capital model, to tilt incentives for its bankers in favour of green loans and away from ‘brown’ ones.
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Are professional codes of conduct shining lodestars for how to behave in financial markets — or dusty screeds of boilerplate that no one can remember? That is what a group of enthusiasts are trying to discover, in the hope that such codes, if used in the best way, could genuinely improve behaviour.
