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State of New Hampshire's innovative bond gets Ba2 rating
Falling leveraged loan prices promise tantalising returns, but the risk of defaults is rising
Some managers are choosing loans conservatively to avoid losses, but they will struggle to improve returns
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The European Banking Authority’s plans to level the playing field for synthetic securitization could raise the cost of such deals for banks supervised by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), slowing down a market which has boomed in the last two years, and forcing banks to look elsewhere for capital relief. -
Dagmar Kent Kershaw, a veteran leveraged finance investor, has joined the advisory council at Strategic Value Partners
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A pair of CLOs that were priced in the last week have hit 101bp over Libor for the senior class, a post-crisis record for a market that observers say still has room to run.
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CVC Credit Partners has appointed Gretchen Bergstresser to a new role as global head of performing credit, while Jonathan Bowers is to step back from the European business to pursue other opportunities.
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The European Investment Fund has completed a programme of synthetic securitizations in Italy, offering capital relief to five of the country’s lenders in return for cheaper lending in southern Italy.
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Looser documentation is emerging in the hot US CLO market, with debt investors in some instances now allowing managers to include terms that permit trading gains to be funnelled straight through to the pockets of equity investors, which is sometimes the CLO manager themselves.
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A burst of new CLOs has emerged in the primary market, with six new deals being marketed this week. Managers have been rushing to close refinancing and reset deals in the first weeks of the year, as JP Morgan analysts warn of a resurgence of loan repricing activity ahead.
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US credit manager CIFC has hired Citi’s former global head of CLO trading as a senior portfolio manager in structured products.
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US retailer Sears announced its intention on Tuesday to swap unsecured and senior secured debt into new payment-in-kind notes that could be converted into common stock. Seeing this as a distressed debt exchange, Fitch Ratings quickly downgraded the retailer to C.
