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Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
Deal could include $950m of bonds
Upper mid-market firms eschew ‘exciting’ stories as cracks emerge in European private credit
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Positive momentum on liability spreads and attractive equity arbitrage are driving a boom in new CLO warehouse formation, with banks competing to offer better conditions. With perhaps 200 facilities active, the blistering pace of CLO formation is set to continue later in the year. -
SoftBank returned to euro and dollar bond markets after a three year absence to issue an eight tranche deal, raising more than $7bn-equivalent from total demand of more than $16bn, and hitting every empty spot in its funding curve at once.
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The European Commission is on the verge of launching its new sustainable finance strategy — the first major fresh initiative since the Sustainable Finance Action Plan of 2018. GlobalCapital has seen a leaked draft, which reveals that the EU will explore whether to create official labels for transition bonds and sustainability-linked bonds, whether to regulate green mortgages, and how to reinforce investors’ responsibility for the effects of their investments.
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Diameter Capital Partners has priced its debut CLO after $250m seed funding from alternative asset managers Apollo Global Management and Corbin Capital, and the pension fund of renewable energy company Babcock & Wilcox. Despite being active in the bond-loan deals, this is the first traditional CLO priced by Diameter, making the firm a new entrance in the regular broadly syndicated loan CLO market.
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In a report on the state of UK private credit, Pemberton predicts further concentration in direct lending, as borrowers opt for established players over upstart funds.
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Natasha Harrison, the heir apparent to fabled law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, told GlobalCapital that while she was not expecting a collapse in corporate credit coming out of the coronavirus, there will be big opportunities for sophisticated distressed debt investors.
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