The shrinking of balance sheets has become a common theme in recent years, particularly in the financial sector. Investors are punishing banks that either unwilling or unable to implement a more conservative financial strategy. It is increasingly clear that the same phenomenon is now observed in the commodities sector. Mining firms need to scale back their…
Discounts on first-lien institutional term loans haven’t been this wide since 2011. The average original issue discount (OID) is 98.02 so far this quarter, almost on par with 4Q15’s 97.98 average. Only 13% of first-lien institutional term loans have been done at an OID of 99.5 or narrower this quarter, slightly down from 16% last…
Over the years the US has been by far the dominant supplier of leveraged loans globally. (See our Chart of the Week) But given similar regulatory pressure being exerted on overseas banks as here, Europe is gaining media attention as a source of debt opportunities for both managers and investors. How should these opportunities be…
The volume of institutional leveraged loans in the US is over six times as large as that of Europe on average over the past fifteen years. Source: S&P Capital IQ; Annual institutional loan volume in US dollars
This week we continue our conversation with Kathryn Dick, Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group. Kathy advises clients on regulatory issues, risk management, and capital market activities. Prior to Promontory, Kathy had a 26-year tenure at the Office of the Controller of the Currency. Second of two parts – View part one The Lead Left: There’s concern among…
2015 Sees U.S. PE Fundraisers Slow Down U.S. private equity fund managers have had a fair measure of success lately. Last year, the median time it took a fund to close was 12.8 months, one of the shorter times on record, while over 87% of funds raised hit their target, for the second year in…
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European credit markets, led by the banking sector, have seen risk escalate over the past several weeks with the Markit iTraxx Europe Main index seeing it’s spread widen to June 2013 highs. One relative bright spot however, has been the region’s sovereign credit, which has largely steered clear of the contagion developed in the corporate…