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  • Major private equity firms, including Blackstone, CarVal, Cerberus and TPG, are selling control rights to the giant UK mortgage portfolios they bought three or four years ago, rather than waiting to call and refinance the deals. Is the rush to the exits a sign of Brexit trouble to come, or a way to make space for a bigger prize in the shape of the final mortgage sales from UK government crisis-era rescues? Owen Sanderson investigates.
  • Lloyds Bank's former head of loan markets, who subsequently became its global head of industrials and manufacturing, has left the bank.
  • Portfolio manager Bill Gross, regarded as a legend of the fixed income investment world, announced his retirement on Monday, after a torrid year for the global unconstrained bond fund he managed at Janus Henderson Investors.
  • The Carlyle Group and GSO Debt Funds Management both priced new European CLOs on Friday, selling the senior bonds at 108bps over Euribor, a strong sign for the euro CLO space as it clears the January hurdle.
  • Alpha Bank sold a €1bn gross-book value portfolio of non-performing Greek SME loans, along with €56m repossessed real estate assets, to a group of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and International Finance Corporation in December. The bank was advised by White & Case.
  • Clydesdale Bank mandated Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, Citi and Wells Fargo for the first UK RMBS of the year, Lanark 2019-1.
  • Heavyweight debt collector Intrum reflected on a very active period of investments in its fourth quarter results, as banks continue to use it when dealing with legacy assets. But analysts questioned its refinancing abilities.
  • The guarantee on securitization of bank non-performing loans (GACS) is likely to be extended, according to market participants speaking at a non-performing loans (NPL) event by the rating agency DBRS. Traders and other sources suggest the government could extend the programme to loans classified as 'unlikely to pay' (UTP).
  • US credit manager CIFC Asset Management has launched an undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) fund in the Republic of Ireland.