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The triple-A rated notes' spread widened by 25bp compared to the original deal
Spreads on CLO liabilities stay wide, making resets for deals from multiple vintages unattractive
Fund is designed to invest in the equity in Bain’s CLOs, but can also invest in liabilities
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Mizuho Securities USA has hired Jim Stehli as a managing director to run its collateralized loan obligations team in New York. The hire surprised some market participants who recalled Stehli's time at UBS, where his department recorded a huge loss on CDOs during the financial crisis.
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Bank CLO investors are searching for standardised contractual language to make existing deals comply with the Volcker rule, as hopes for a regulatory or legislative fix to ease the regulation’s impact begin to fade. Investors may soon be forced to recognise accounting impairments on their holdings, but some managers are yet to grasp the urgency of the task at hand, an investor told GlobalCapital. -
Restrictions on covenant-lite loan buckets have become commonplace in European CLOs this year amid a trend of increasing deal sizes, with issuance expected to surpass half of last year’s total within weeks.
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CLO industry participants are losing hope for a regulatory or legislative fix to ease the Volcker Rule’s impact on banks investors, especially after the Federal Reserve confirmed that its two year extension for banks to make their deals compliant would not apply if those securities change hands.
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CLO industry participants are losing hope for a regulatory or legislative fix to ease the Volcker rule’s impact on banks investors, especially after the Federal Reserve confirmed that its two year extension for banks to make their deals compliant would not apply if those securities change hands.
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Restrictions on covenant-lite loan buckets have become commonplace in European CLOs this year amid a trend of increasing deal sizes, just as some market participants have begun to fret about riskier asset selection.
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European CLO managers and investors believe underwriting standards in Europe’s leveraged loan market are weaker now than before the 2008 financial crisis, but that with limited primary activity in the leveraged buyout market cov-lite loans are still not a “major issue” in Europe.
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CLO managers may be more inclined to amend existing deals to make them comply with the Volcker Rule now that the US Federal Reserve has given bank investors an extra two years to make sure their CLO holdings conform. But that doesn’t make it any easier to do in practice, CLO market participants have told GlobalCapital. And the potential changes could put too much pressure on equity investors.
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CLO managers may be more inclined to amend existing deals to make them Volcker-compliant now that the Federal Reserve has given bank investors an extra two years to make sure their CLO holdings conform. But that doesn’t make it any easier to do in practice, and the potential changes could put too much pressure on equity investors, CLO market participants told GlobalCapital on Monday.
