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Resets for 2021 and 2024 deals are less attractive to managers due to wider liability pricing
Spreads for the triple-A rated notes were similar to the manager's previous deal
State of New Hampshire's innovative bond gets Ba2 rating
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NatWest Markets has started to offer currency swaps on leveraged loans, with its first ‘perfect asset swap’ traded in December. It joins just two other banks regularly offering the product, which is crucial for connecting the sterling leveraged finance market to the deep demand created by euro-based CLO buyers. -
Nordea has agreed a €5.1bn risk transfer securitization of corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise loans, to close in January. It is Nordea's second synthetic risk transfer deal and the first since it redomiciled into Europe’s Banking Union, which has given it a lead regulator more supportive of synthetic securitization than the Swedish regulator.
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Credit and manager selection are expected to be the driving forces in the CLO market next year, as benign conditions turn choppy and ratings arbitrage among leveraged loans comes front and center.
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The Financial Stability Board warned on Thursday of growing vulnerabilities in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. Increased leverage, weak covenants and the rise of non-bank lenders have added risk and complexity to the market, according to the global watchdog of the financial system, and the investors don’t have enough visibility on the debt instruments they’re buying.
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NN Investment Partners appoints head of alternative credit — Bothamley and McNelis take up DCM reins at HSBC — RenCap picks private clients boss
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CLO market participants are eyeing the growing use of a structural feature seen for the first time in 2019, as a class of notes designed to hedge refinance risk are expected to increase in popularity over the next year.
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NN Investment Partners has hired a head of alternative credit, who is set to start in mid-January.
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The rally in the price of mezzanine CLO paper has run out of steam after a surprising run that saw spreads on the bonds tighten by 75bp-100bp since October, according to analysts at JP Morgan writing this week.
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The rally in the price of mezzanine CLO paper has run out of steam after a surprising run that saw spreads on the bonds tighten by 75bp-100bp since October, according to analysts at JP Morgan writing this week.
