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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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  • Five high yield bond issues were launched in the US on Tuesday, and at least a couple more are expected on Wednesday and Thursday - fruit of the sharp turnround in sentiment in the past fortnight. This is lifting the spirits of bankers in London, who are finding it very hard to encourage issuers into the market.
  • Risk retention rules spelt out last week by Japan’s Financial Services Agency have become a key regulatory concern for CLO managers that sell triple-A debt to Japanese banks, although a consensus is building among US players that exemptions for open market CLOs will be approved by regulators.
  • Carlyle Group and BNPP are marketing a two-year non-conforming Euro CLO, at a time when CLO arbitrage is its worst level since 2013.
  • BNP Paribas has made a string of senior appointments to complete the reorganisation of its corporate and institutional bank that began at the end of last year.
  • Asia’s offshore bond market has had a strong start to the year, moving past the doom and gloom that ended 2018. But there are already signs that the difficult conditions that defined last year may only be around the corner.
  • Leveraged finance markets in Europe are looking up, and bankers expect they may even see some deals priced before long.
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