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BNP Paribas is combining its primary and secondary activities in US credit markets under a new Global Credit Markets Americas division, with a new head of leveraged finance joining from Deutsche Bank to bolster the firm’s offering. -
Houlihan Lokey has formed a new US leveraged loan syndication platform, HL Finance, with HPS Investment Partners working alongside the firm to underwrite and syndicate deals of up to $1bn.
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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.
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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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Deutsche Bank has seen the biggest fall among large investment banks of in employee approval of its CEO, according to analysis from UBS’s banks research team. The news comes as the German bank’s new boss, Christian Sewing, rolls out extensive cuts to international trading operations and a refocusing of efforts on Germany.
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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.
