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  • Credit Suisse Asset Management priced its first euro CLO at the end of last week, placing the triple-A bonds at 108bps over three month Euribor as CLO investors remain largely undeterred by regulatory concerns. This week, GSO is expected to price its Crosthwaite Park CLO by Friday, with the manager floating initial price thoughts at the start of the week.
  • Australian lender Pepper Money this week started marketing an RMBS that will offer investors a euro-denominated tranche and a short-dated dollar tranche, as the issuer looks ready to be the first to jump into the European securitization market this year.
  • The path from M&A rainmaker to CEO is a perilous one, as John Cryan and Andrea Orcel have proved. Will Christian Meissner be the next senior banker to try it, asks David Rothnie.
  • GSO has entered the market with a euro CLO alongside Credit Suisse Asset Management's Cadogan Square XIII deal, which is looking at initial price thoughts of 105bp-110bp.
  • Metro Bank’s update to the market on Wednesday has led to speculation it will need to raise capital once more. It revealed slowing loan and deposit growth, weaker than expected profits, and a greater than expected rise in risk-weighted assets chewing up its capital ratio. The update came at a time when UK banks are pessimistic about raising capital.
  • 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.