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Pricing on junior mezzanine notes is diverging as managers have to cope with difficult conditions
Manager extends non-call by a year, tapping into market for shorter-dated deals
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UK banks printed a flurry of risk transfer securitizations just before the end of last year, hedging portfolios of corporate credit and commercial real estate totalling more than $8.5bn-equivalent. -
Sidley Austin has hired Steven Koyler to join the firm’s global finance practice as a partner in New York.
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A wave of mutual fund redemptions is pushing a loan market sell-off deeper as investors look to cash out of a potentially overheated investment, said leveraged loan market sources this week.
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Against a backdrop of rising Libor rates, deteriorating loan covenants and strong corporate earnings, CLO participants in 2018 had to digest a host of mixed signals from the market. Investors and managers are cautiously eyeing a continued bull run as the sector comes to a late-cycle crossroads in 2019.
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Synthetic risk transfer markets have had another good year, with the core group of banks active in the market returning to issue, smaller firms mulling the market, and investors raising new cash to buy deals. But perhaps most exciting is the development of a whole new issuer base, in the shape of multilateral development banks, following the landmark ‘Room2Run’ deal between the African Development Bank and Mariner Investment Group.
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US CLO issuance has almost entirely tapered off in the final weeks of the year, but a select few deals are crawling through the pipeline even while spreads are near recorded highs for 2018.
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Leveraged loan prices are plummeting in secondary trading and CLO managers are scrambling to market new deals even after US equities have recovered from their recent tumble.
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The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), the chosen alternative to dollar Libor rates, has shown more volatility, spiking to an all-time high toward the end of last week before moving back down this week.
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CLO market sources tell GlobalCapital that Natixis has been unable to successfully market a CLO reset on behalf of Trinitas Capital Management and will delay the offering until early 2019 as investors balk at tight spreads in a highly volatile market.
