CDOs/CLOs

At the recent American Securitization Forum (ASF) Sunset Seminar, panelists looked back at the first year of Dodd-Frank, saying regulators are still missing the bigger picture.

Europe's reenactment of last summer's sovereign debt crisis heated up as talks of a Greek debt default intensified once again this July.

Greek bailout talks intensified once again this July, a repeat in many ways of last summer's discussions. But structured finance issuance is taking it much harder this year, as Nora Colomer examines in the cover story. In July two actively marketed European securitizations were abruptly pulled when the market got too volatile. Other issuers went the retained route rather than face the risks associated with bringing new-issue deals to market.

Bank regulators expressed frustration July 27 over a little-noticed and initially uncontroversial provision of Dodd-Frank that forces them to eliminate references to credit ratings in most bank regulations.

Private equity firm Apollo Global Management is planning to raise a second publicly traded fund to invest in leveraged loans.

The slowly reviving CLO market is getting a boost from an unexpected source: one of the biggest financial blowups in history.

Is the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision building an effective set of capital rules, one that will accomplish the goal of competitive parity?

Lehman Brothers Holdings hopes to generate as much as $2 billion to repay creditors by securitizing a portfolio of commercial loans.

RBC Capital Markets has hired three bankers for loan capital markets and European sponsor coverage, according to the bank.

Citigroup has offered to buy the Dryden VI-Leveraged Loan CDO 2004.