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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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Equity market turmoil has brought the US high yield market down from exuberant levels, but some investors have welcomed the move and are confident that primary market activity will soon pick up, despite one borrower scrapping a deal on Tuesday. -
Argentic Silverpeak has announced a debut US CLO backed by commercial real estate loans, following the pricing of a $932m TPG Real Estate Finance deal on Monday, as tight pricing encourages borrowers to turn to the capital markets to finance short dated real estate lending.
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CLO equity investors expressed strong interest for the €509.25m Barings Euro CLO 2018-1, with the equity tranche four times subscribed according to a market source.
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Enjoying its busiest start to the calendar year since 2013, the US CLO market steamed ahead last week with triple-A new issue spreads touching the 100bp milestone. Bank of America Merrill Lynch cautioned last Friday on the risk of market volatility seeping into the underlying loan market, however.
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Slow settlements and burdensome admin in the European leveraged loan market have been delivering risk-free profits to some loan arrangers — leaving loan funds and CLO managers fuming, and prompting a move from the Loan Market Association to work on a fix. But in a hot market, voluntary guidance may not be enough.
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The European Banking Authority’s plans to level the playing field for synthetic securitization could raise the cost of such deals for banks supervised by the European Central Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), slowing down a market which has boomed in the last two years, and forcing banks to look elsewhere for capital relief.
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Dagmar Kent Kershaw, a veteran leveraged finance investor, has joined the advisory council at Strategic Value Partners
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A pair of CLOs that were priced in the last week have hit 101bp over Libor for the senior class, a post-crisis record for a market that observers say still has room to run.
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CVC Credit Partners has appointed Gretchen Bergstresser to a new role as global head of performing credit, while Jonathan Bowers is to step back from the European business to pursue other opportunities.
