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A buoyant high yield market and lenders’ willingness to amend and extend loans has helped tackle near term maturities of unrated European LBO debt, according to a new study from Moody’s. However, the report warns that some weaker and smaller companies might still struggle to refinance their maturities.
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A buoyant high yield market and lenders' willingness to amend and extend loans has helped tackle near term maturities of unrated European LBO debt, according to a new study from Moody's. However, the report warns that some weaker and smaller companies might still struggle to refinance their maturities.
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Political protests in Turkey should hold no fear for supporters of Islamic finance in the country. The hard work has been done and the product looks set for a big future.
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Loan Ranger is a sucker for data. He likes few things more than trawling through a seemingly endless inbox of emails to find a well researched and thought-provoking data study among all the usual hubris.
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Regulatory proposals that now more clearly define risk retention rules for European collateralised loan obligations could end up dealing a blow to a market that had only just started getting back on its feet.
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The fuss over covered bond issuance and the impact of asset encumbrance on the senior unsecured claim is nothing more than a warm-up act for the main show — the fading away of senior unsecured bank debt.
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For all its record-breaking size, Petrobras’s $11bn bond has set surprisingly few hearts racing. Bankers hardly seem shocked by the scale of the deal. It simply confirms what many people already suspected EM was capable of.
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Blog, being the sort of bottom-feeding toad that he is, usually only gets invited to the lowest calibre of sporting events on corporate jollies — reserve team games at Fulham, under-15s rugby at Saracens, the ball boys’ warm-up at Wimbledon, and so on.
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The reputation of securitisation in Europe is seeing a remarkable turnaround. Not only has the market been allowed to shed its dunce’s cap and leave the naughty corner, but many now see securitisation as a crucial to preventing Europe’s faltering economy from going into further decline.