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Borrowers take advantage of robust CLO demand to tighten leveraged loan pricing
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Manager reset the deal for the second time as the end of its reinvestment period approached
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CLO activity continued unabated last week despite the three day Global ABS conference in Barcelona, with Napier Park, CIFC and Tikehau offering up deals. -
The CLO market has recently stalled due to a slowdown of investment from Japanese firms. Market participants say that this has been largely driven by negative media attention surrounding CLOs, and feel frustration that the asset class is still strongly associated with CDOs and the US subprime crisis.
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Edward Altman, creator of the Z-score metric predicting corporate bankruptcies, has co-founded a new company that automates credit scores for small and medium sized firms. That could help provide ratings for the SME CLO market.
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The attitude of managers and arrangers is holding back the CLO market, with weakening deal terms and pre-placement of triple-A tranches a particular problem, said Balint Vogavolgyi, senior portfolio manager at Aegon during a panel discussion.
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Quirks of Europe’s new Securitisation Regulation, which came into force this year and is dominating debate at this year’s IMN/Afme Global ABS conference in Barcelona, could leave CLO buyers carrying the can for failures of CLO managers to meet their regulatory obligations.
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CIFC is bringing a €356.05m CLO via arranger Deutsche Bank, the first CLO issued in Europe under CIFC’s name since the firm began expanding its presence across the Atlantic.
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Fair Oaks Capital, a CLO issuer among the first to include ESG criteria in its deals, updated the capital structure of its latest deal to create split equity and a split senior triple-A rated tranche at the request of investors.
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Bayer’s sale of its animal health unit ought to help a leveraged loan market where supply is still running short of last year’s total — and help loan investors compensate for M&A deals that have dropped out of this year’s pipeline.
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Cairn Capital will be able to distribute its multi-asset credit offering more widely, through the establishment of a joint UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities) fund with its owner Mediobanca.
