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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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A CLO structurer has left Morgan Stanley to join HPS Investment Partners as a vice-president. -
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has launched a series of surveys ‘to understand the potential conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives among participants in the leveraged loan and CLO markets’, inviting bank lenders, CLO investors, loan sponsors, and CLO managers to give them feedback.
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Deutsche Bank held a three hour “deepdive” into its sustainability actions for clients, investors, the press and NGOs last week, with its CEO Christian Sewing and all its business heads. It coincided with an array of announcements, which even earned a favourable comment from Moody’s, including that Deutsche is accelerating its €200bn sustainable financing target. But those hoping for more detail on how Deutsche will decarbonise its financing were disappointed.
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Polish synthetic rubber group Synthos announced a €500m high yield bond on Tuesday, following its recent agreement to buy two specialist rubber businesses from Trinseo for $449m. It will fund the acquisition through cash but it launched the new bond to pay down its existing term loan and put in place a more flexible capital structure, including an increased €500m revolving credit facility.
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Debut Chinese borrowers are steadily returning to the dollar loan market, taking advantage of economic recovery in the country to raise money to finance their capital expenditure.
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Three Chinese borrowers and one Hong Kong issuer hit the international bond market on Monday, getting ahead of a pick-up in deal flow expected in the rest of the week.
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