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Borrowers take advantage of robust CLO demand to tighten leveraged loan pricing
New realm for ex-Natixis banker, as HSBC Innovation Bank hires
Manager reset the deal for the second time as the end of its reinvestment period approached
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The synthetic risk transfer market helped some of Europe’s biggest banks dodge loan losses last year, with Barclays saving more than £300m and Deutsche at least €150m. But the backdrop last year led to investors taking a tougher line on writing new credit protection, steering clear of pools with limited disclosure and hoping to dodge the most damaged sectors. -
The complexity of CLO documentation, and the need for easy access to deal info is encouraging tech providers to step into the breach and offer solutions to simplify the time-consuming processes of CLO investing. As managers adapt their deals to handle the fallout of the pandemic, good tools to handle documentary complexity have become all the more important.
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Investors in search of extra yield are pushing CLO managers to once again add single-B tranches to deal structures, now that the volatile market conditions of 2020 have subsided.
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PGIM has pushed the market to a new tight by resetting a deal with senior notes at 104bp over three month Libor.
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CLO liability spreads are tightening faster than leveraged loans can reprice, boosting the arbitrage available for managers hitting this window and encouraging others to rush into the market where possible.
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Tikehau Capital has appointed Christoph Zens from Commerzbank as head of the firm’s CLO business, replacing Debra Anderson who is set to retire in the second quarter of 2021.
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The US CLO market is gaining positive traction in the first quarter of the year, with strong demand from investors, and spreads continuing to tighten, despite the absence of the Japanese banks, traditional anchor buyers of the senior tranches.
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A boom in CLO refinancing and reset volumes, alongside intense new issue activity, is leading to worries about whether banks, rating agencies, law firms and other deal parties have the capacity to cope.
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CVC Credit has pushed triple-A spreads to tights not seen since March 2018 with its new CLO issue, Apidos XXXV.
