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Deutsche Bank increased the size of a Blackstone/GSO European CLO from €294.81m to €343.922m. The bank also added preliminary ratings from Kroll Bond Rating Agency to the deal hours before pricing. -
As the CLO market enters the end of the summer, managers are getting ready to restart activity after Labor Day. But they are concerned about a potential wave of negative actions from rating agencies.
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Palmer Square Capital Management has announced its debut CLO in Europe, mandating JP Morgan for a rare static CLO, a deal structure not commonly seen in Europe.
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US CLO managers are working through a backlog of warehouses opened before the Covid-19 pandemic by splitting the facilities in half to buy back some equity and issue new deals. While in Europe, managers are tweaking deal documentation in preparation for new transactions.
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European CLO secondary trading activity has surpassed 2019’s full-year volumes, following a spurt of CLO tranche trading when spreads widened out in March.
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has hired Charles Pesant as partner in the securitization practice group and in the corporate department in New York.
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Triple-A spreads on new CLO issues hit 130bp last week — their tightest level since the beginning of the pandemic — as GSO priced a $300.15m static CLO arranged by Barclays.
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The period since March has been a turbulent time for financial markets, and the CLO sector in Europe dealt with a complex set of disruptions when the pandemic arrived this spring. From sudden and acute stress at the corporate level, to an unprecedented shift in working conditions, CLO players in Europe experienced uncertainty not seen since the last crisis. Yet, the market has adapted, and while the shape and size of deals may be different, CLOs in Europe are pushing ahead. BNY Mellon and GlobalCapital gathered market experts to discuss the present state of the European CLO market and its prospects.
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Many saw the US Federal Reserve’s decision to lend hundreds of billions of dollars to certain central banks at the height of the coronavirus crisis as pivotal in preventing further calamity in global markets. Brad Setser, senior fellow for international economics at the Council of Foreign Relations, gives a great deal of credit to the Fed for its forceful intervention. But if markets begin to see the US central bank as a global lender of last resort, there may be a greater risk of imprudent behaviour and more political tumult in the US.
