CDOs/CLOs

Peter Antoszyk and David Hillman, co-heads of Proskauer Rose LLP’s private credit restructuring group, think the dry powder that investors have access to will help ease restructurings.

The U.S collateralized loan obligation market largely bid farewell to its biggest buyer earlier this year. Now Japan’s Norinchukin Bank is back.

The global structured credit investment firm is pricing its first European deal since opening a London branch last year. It announced the hiring of its first UK-based analyst team Tuesday.

The concentration of loans and CLOs in a small number of banks "may result in pockets of vulnerability," the report stated.

The $354.9 million Battery Park CLO Ltd. is a broadly syndicated loan portfolio that is the first “CLO 2.0” deal sponsored by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).

Revisions to S&P's CLO ratings methadology and Kroll's launch into rating European CLOs could challenge Moody's as the first choice for managers across the pond.

The move to an electronic platform may transform auctions to let investors offload holdings faster. The goal is to fix a part of the market that isn’t functioning as well as it could, says a Citi managing director.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the agency is closely monitoring leveraged lending risks, but suggests further regulations on banks aren’t warranted.

Most regulators are careful to say a repeat of 2008 is unlikely because investors, rather than the banks they oversee, hold most of the debt.

A Moody's report highlights the regional CLO market differences becoming more crucial to global investors who analysts say want to better discern variances in each market's standards and performance.