CDOs/CLOs

Managers are refinancing at least 13 collateralized loan obligations totaling $9 billion as the deadline to comply with risk retention approaches.

Amherst Pierpont Securities has named former Jefferies executive Erez Biala to form and direct a new collateralized loan obligation trading and origination platform at the fixed-income broker-dealer.

September was the busiest month for CLO issuance since mid-2015, accoriding to Thomson Reuters L

Nine global banks are testing blockchain and smart contract technologies to see if they can improve the syndicated loan market.

In October, roughly $40 billion collateralized loan obligations will become callable, giving managers with a required payment date only a month in which to refinance before the risk retention requirement kicks in.

The monthly total of $5.9 billion in new collateralized loan obligation issuance in August made slight gains over July’s output, but year-to-date issuance remains sharply off 2015’s pace.

High investor demand for collateralized loan obligation paper is squeezing spreads to their tightest levels in more than a year, even as improving monthly CLO issuance has reached its highest level of 2016.

Mid-market commercial direct lender Newstar Financial is losing one of its founding members and a key figure in establishing its multi-faceted securitization platform with the announced retirement of treasurer and asset management head John Frishkopf.

The recent and ongoing upheaval in Libor rates is producing divergent outlooks on debt and equity positions in CLOs, says the Loan Syndications and Trading Association.

Rules requiring CLO managers to keep skin in the game of their deals has taken a toll on smaller firms. But the resulting thinning of the ranks has created room for some new players that are better capitalized, including insurance companies.