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The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), the chosen alternative to dollar Libor rates, has shown more volatility, spiking to an all-time high toward the end of last week before moving back down this week. -
CLO market sources tell GlobalCapital that Natixis has been unable to successfully market a CLO reset on behalf of Trinitas Capital Management and will delay the offering until early 2019 as investors balk at tight spreads in a highly volatile market.
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Defaults among borrowers with speculative grade ratings are set to dive at the start of next year, but only for a while, Moody’s said in an outlook report for non-financial corporates this week.
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Investors in European leveraged debt seem to be giving up for the year. Funds and financial vehicles that buy high yield bonds and leveraged loans have seen large volumes of cash outflows, leaving borrowers with no other option but to step back this week.
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Senior credit analysts at Moody’s are warning that the private equity-led proliferation of weak creditor protections in the leveraged loan market may mean a more protracted and challenging default cycle in coming years.
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Nomura has hired Florian Bita as the head of CLO origination and syndication for the Americas.
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Moody's expects the supply of euro CLOs in 2019 to match 2018 levels, constrained by leveraged loan issuance, with no near term performance worries. However, the rating agency expects that collateral quality and transaction structures will weaken and notes that the European Central Bank’s guidelines to limit excessive leverage have had little impact.
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The €400m CLO deal, managed by Barings (UK) Limited, is set to price on Friday with spread talk on lower rated tranches indicative of a widening in CLO liability costs potentially pinching equity returns. Meanwhile, Magnetar Capital’s First Citizen Finance is marketing its second auto ABS deal backed by Irish loans.
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Wells Fargo analysts said that the biggest risk for CLOs next year is loan rating downgrades straining the structures, although the bank does not expect an increase in loan defaults despite the rise of late cycle lending behaviour.
