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Manager reset the deal for the second time as the end of its reinvestment period approached
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After the 2008 financial crisis, JP Morgan’s chief investment office restored the European securitization markets, buying billions of UK and Dutch RMBS. Now, market players are looking to JP Morgan and Citigroup’s CIO units again to scoop up senior securitization bonds and backstop the market. -
The synthetic risk transfer market, where specialist hedge funds write protection on up to €100bn of notional risk per year from banks, is grappling with the impact of the coronavirus on SME and corporate credit. The illiquid bilateral transactions barely trade, but have increasingly been financed through the repo market, giving banks and funds a challenge as they fight over where the positions should be marked.
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The Federal Reserve said this week that it would revive its Primary Dealer Credit Facility, expanding the program to include triple-A rated CLOs, as the central bank dives deeper into the crisis era playbook to stem the fallout from the coronavirus crisis.
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An expected wave of defaults in corporate credit is driving stress in the CLO space, spurring some in the market to begin internal discussions to make their pitch to the government for greater protections.
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The high volume of bids wanted in competition (BWIC) registered last week in CLOs dropped on Monday as credit instability increased and investors asked for greater protections as Libor craters.
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Last week European securitization markets saw a heavy supply of BWICs (bids-wanted-in-competion), with over €487m of CLO bonds on offer. But few of the bid lists are finding clearing levels, with 64% did-not-trade in CLOs last week.
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Static securitizations of a pre-crisis vintage were among the poorest performers of the post-crisis era, as mortgage standards slipped into the boom year of 2007. But CLOs printed in the 2006 and 2007 are among the best deals ever done in the market, giving managers locked up leverage and the flexibility to exploit a huge market dislocation. Could the 2020 crisis see the same?
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Financial market tumult and global instability as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are hitting CLO primary issuance, while activity in the secondary market is accelerating as investors hunt for opportunities amid the chaos.
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The 30% drop in the price of crude oil as Saudi Arabia kicked off a price war this week is causing anxiety in the CLO market and a flashback to the oil plunge of 2016, though data shows that the sector is far less exposed than during past crises.
