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Canada's largest bank last month said it plans to cut as much as 2% of its full-time equivalent staff in the coming quarter after a surge in expenses weighed on third-quarter results.

CLOs are turning to another type of debt — junk bonds — for the security packages that underpin the investment vehicles that are sold to insurers and pension funds.

Backed by revenue from point-of-sale unsecured consumer loans, the upsized deal also features expandable notes.

Tractors make up the vast majority of the vehicles in the pool, 92.5%, while trailers, trucks and buses account for 4.1%, 2.3% and 1.1%, respectively.

The SEC could crimp effective investor communications, while IOSCO seeks feedback on 12 proposed "good practices" when operating in the leveraged loan and CLO markets.

Rating agencies say the A, B, C and D notes have about 29.0%, 23.8%, 17.3% and 14.0% in credit enhancement, respectively, while A, B, and C notes enjoy a 15.9%, 10.6% and 4.0% in subordination.

Optimism may be building that the Fed is poised to steer the economy toward a soft landing, but Treasury market has delivered what is widely understood as a starkly different message: The economy is veering toward a contraction.

The notes benefit from a step-up event concerning class D. If an optional redemption does not occur in the expected redemption date, then the interest rate on the class D notes will increase by 3.0%.

The renewed interest in CLOs, which repackage leveraged loans into bonds of varying risk and size, comes after a very slow year for the market.

Virtually all of the attributes in VZMT 2023-5 and 2023-6 are identical, such as the statistical cutoff date (August 7), aggregate principal balance ($23 billion) and weighted average (WA) remaining installments, 26 months.