CLOs

  • Job swaps round-up - 13 October

    Acquisition

    Navient has entered into an agreement to acquire online student lender Earnest for US$155m in cash. Earnest will continue to operate under its current brand and be led by its current management team. Navient has suspended its remaining share repurchase programme through year-end 2018 to allocate capital towards growing its education lending business and building book value. Closing of .......

    Job Swaps 13 October 2017

  • Refi success depends on timing

    Refis from the final quarter of last year appear to have pulled the trigger too early as they reduced their debt costs by less than those US CLOs that refinanced this year. While refis from 4Q16 outperformed only briefly before later once more underperforming issuance cohorts, refis from 1Q17 and 2Q17 have enjoyed outperformance without then succumbing to underperformance.

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    News 11 October 2017

  • Treasury report supports securitisation

    The US Treasury has released a report recommending a number of regulatory changes that could make it easier for companies to issue and invest in securitisations. The second in a series on boosting the US financial system, the report stresses the importance of securitisation to a strong economy and suggests repealing elements of the Dodd-Frank Act and lightening other regulatory .......

    News 9 October 2017

  • Job swaps round-up - 6 October

    North America

    Roy Guthrie is to succeed JP McNeill - who is transitioning into a long-term strategy role as vice-chairman of the board - as chairman and ceo of Renovate America. Among his previous roles, Guthrie served as cfo and evp of Discover Financial Services and as president and ceo of various Citigroup businesses. Renovate America has also appointed Ari .......

    Job Swaps 6 October 2017

  • New dawn for bank funding strategies?

    The European securitisation market faces what is expected to be an "interesting" year ahead, as low-cost central bank liquidity dries up and banks adopt new funding strategies. Together with boosting primary ABS issuance, Bank of England and ECB tapering will likely impact the volume of paper being retained.

    In the UK, the drawdown periods for the Funding for Lending Scheme .......

    News Analysis 4 October 2017

  • Direct lending warehouse formed

    Bespoke Capital has established a direct lending warehouse facility, set up as a cashflow securitisation dubbed Be-Spoke Loan Funding, to fund a portfolio of loans granted to Spanish SMEs. The initial transaction portfolio - comprising 21 obligations - stands at €70.8m, with warehouse notional expected to reach €400m, as of the last drawing point.

    DBRS has assigned final ratings to .......

    News 3 October 2017

  • Risk retention capital largely deployed?

    The availability of risk retention financing has been one of the main reasons that CLO supply has outpaced most projections. Responses to JPMorgan's Q4 CLO survey suggest that US$115bn out of total risk retention capacity of US$200bn may now have been deployed.

    The survey ran from 25-28 September, with CLO debt investors accounting for more than half of respondents. CLO .......

    News 3 October 2017

  • US CLOs keep it light

    Volumes in the US CLO secondary market remain light, but spreads are still firm.

    "Not much has changed over the past month," says one trader. "The bigger issues still apply with heavy new issuance in a re-set focused market holding sway, which means secondary activity has remained a bit light."

    The trader continues: "At the same time, there have been no .......

    SCIWire 3 October 2017

  • Euro secondary sustained

    Activity levels continue to be sustained if not spectacular in the European securitisation secondary market.

    "Secondary is still fairly quiet," says one trader. "New issues are coming through at a good steady rate and occupying people's minds."

    Overall, the trader adds: "The market feels pretty firm and spreads are holding up across the board. That's being backed up by decent .......

    SCIWire 3 October 2017

  • New issue CLOs preferable?

    US CLO relative value discussions often focus on tranche level - where triple-A paper continues to be the consensus pick, despite spread tiering at the top of the US CLO capital structure compressing dramatically - but the case for new issue CLOs over seasoned paper is made less often. In current conditions, however, vintage could be a particularly relevant factor.

    News Analysis 25 September 2017

  • Toys R Us CMBS exposure gauged

    Toys R Us filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Several US CMBS loans are exposed to the retailer, although no store closures have been announced.

    The company filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to resolve US$400m of debt maturing next year. The majority of its stores remain profitable and the company says the filing will not affect .......

    News 21 September 2017

  • Euro CLO 1.0 losses crystallise

    A new Bank of America Merrill Lynch study tracks the crystallisation of losses across pre-crisis European CLOs, where tranches have not been repaid in full. The analysis finds that around 60 European CLO 1.0 deals have outstanding rated debt tranches, compared to approximately 210 deals issued since 2001 that have been called and repaid in full or amortised naturally.

    Bank .......

    News 19 September 2017

  • Job swaps round-up - 15 September

    EMEA

    Golden Tree Asset Management has opened an office in Sydney, hiring Russell Taylor as md to lead the office. Taylor was most recently md at JPMorgan where he was head of institutional sales for Australia and New Zealand. He worked at the bank for 30 years in a number of roles, including across credit derivatives, structured credit, securitisation, loans .......

    Job Swaps 15 September 2017

  • Direct lending securitisation faces barriers

    Lines of credit to European direct lending firms, which borrow from banks and typically lend to middle-market firms, could be ripe for securitisation. However, the securitisation of these funding lines would bring added regulatory scrutiny and rating agency involvement, which would not be welcomed by all corners of the direct lending industry.

    David Quirolo, partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, .......

    News Analysis 12 September 2017

  • Third Colonnade global completed

    Barclays has closed its third Colonnade global significant risk transfer trade (SRT), Colonnade Global 2017-3 Financial Guarantee. In unusual fashion for capital relief trades the credit protection covers both principal and accrued interest.

    The SRT transaction is a US$140m CLN that references a US$1.6bn corporate loan portfolio from thirty countries across the globe.

    Rated by DBRS the deal comprises US$1.3bn .......

    News Analysis 8 September 2017

  • Job swaps round-up - 8 September

    EMEA

    Tiger Risk UK has hired Michael Wade as a non-executive chair of TigerRisk Capital Markets and Advisory UK. He is also the Crown representative for insurance at the UK cabinet office and advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on issues relating to Insurance Linked Securities (ILS).

    Beechbrook Capital has hired Jon Petty to the role of associate director .......

    Job Swaps 8 September 2017

  • US CLOs unswerving

    The US CLO secondary market is yet to swerve from the path it has been following for a large part of this year.

    Light volumes continued in August, but the year's supply-demand dynamic remained. Appetite for a still limited amount of available paper ensures that secondary spreads remain firm - 1.0 spreads throughout the stack are unchanged over the past .......

    SCIWire 7 September 2017

  • Euro secondary returns

    The European securitisation secondary market is beginning to return to life after the summer.

    August saw the usual seasonal lull in terms of trading volumes in ABS/MBS, but the buying bias remained across the board. Consequently, secondary spreads were flat to slightly tighter month on month.

    CLO volumes saw less of a dip and from time to time, especially around .......

    SCIWire 7 September 2017

  • Deals reset middle-market expectations

    Middle-market CLO issuance has picked up again, following a summer lull, and spreads have ground tighter. Investors will be keeping an eye on how tight spreads get, and also on the risk of credit issues as competition for assets intensifies.

    When TCP Whitney CLO 2017-1 priced at the start of August it did so at the tightest triple-A spreads for .......

    News Analysis 4 September 2017

  • Job swaps round-up - 1 September

    EMEA

    Credit Suisse has hired Constantin Hulst as a CLO structurer to its European CLO origination team in London, reporting to Michael Malek, head of European CLO structuring. Hulst was previously at BNP Paribas, where he was an analyst and structurer in the CLO team.

    North America

    Allianz Global Investors has hired Mona Mahajan as its new US investment strategist. She .......

    Job Swaps 1 September 2017

  • CLO secondary trading slows

    Primary CLO issuance is booming, although secondary market activity has dipped this year. The glut of refinancings seen earlier in the year appears to have played a significant part in this.

    In the primary market, almost US$12bn of US CLOs was issued in the first three weeks of August, enough to make the month the second busiest of the year. .......

    News 31 August 2017
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