CDOs

When the European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled its €750 billion ($952 billion) bailout package to help stabilize the euro against the U.S. dollar, it addressed the crisis of confi dence created by fears of contagion over Greece’s sovereign risk.

Elgin Capital, a London-based asset manager, will start purchasing debtor-in-possession loans backing U.S.-based companies for its CLOs.

The tranches in the $325 million ALM Loan Funding 2010-1 LTD CLO — arranged by Citigroup and managed by Apollo Management — have been priced, a source familiar with the situation said.

Published reports indicated that some of the banks and credit rating agencies that were subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo are willing to cooperate with his investigation. Cuomo's probe is looking into the propriety of these firms' relationships.

Churchill Financial announced that Olympus Partners, a Stamford, CT-based private equity firm, has bought the asset management firm.

A new report issued by the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on last year's failure of Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union (EFFCU) found that the one-time high-flying CU was brought down by risky investments in CDOs as well as loan losses and other concerns.

Large private-equity firms are buying up CLOs to generate higher returns for their investors, and the purchases have helped resuscitate a market that was in severe distress just a year ago.

Two weeks after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) leveled fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, the financial giant is said to be mulling settlement talks with the regulator, according to Fox Business Network.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) suit against Goldman Sachs centers on the allegation that the Wall Street firm failed to disclose to investors the role an opportunistic hedge fund, Paulson & Co., played in choosing the assets underlying a CDO, before betting against it.

Highland Capital Management has promoted Patrick Boyce and Lane Britain to partner. Boyce is currently chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Highland; Britain is a portfolio manager and co-head of research at the firm.

Goldman Sachs’ top managers told equity analysts at Bernstein Research that their firm has not lost many customers in the wake of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit.

New Mexico District Judge Stephen Pfeffer has dismissed a pay-to-play suit filed by former Educational Retirement Board (ERB) Investment Officer Frank Foy and the state watchdog on grounds that the claims and alleged wrong doing pre-date the pertinent state law.

The Carlyle Group has acquired $4.2 billion worth of CLOs and $950 million worth of managed accounts from Stanfield Capital Partners, increasing the size of its credit assets under management to $18.1 billion from $13 billion.

Moody's Investors Service took negative rating actions on 30 structured finance transactions backed by Greek assets.

Collateralized debt obligations were never the main avenue for the sale of banks' trust-preferred securities. But it's on such credit-market side streets where their buyers — fellow banks, especially small ones — have gotten mugged.

The last time the bank loan market saw a spattering of new CLOs, Twitter was just getting started and Britney Spears was still growing back all of her hair. Now, the details of four new CLOs have begun circulating, one of which will consist of new loans, a source familiar with the deal said.

Deutsche Bank named Pius Sprenger as head of trading for ABS and CDOs, replacing Greg Lippmann, according to a report from Bloomberg, which quoted two people familiar with the matter who declined to be identified.

Goldman Sachs, its image tarnished by a new subprime-related legal action brought by the government, on Monday made additional comments on the case, including a revelation that it too lost money on the CDO transaction in question.

The CDO at the center of the fraud case against Goldman Sachs is known as ABACUS 2007-AC1, and a class of its debt was cut to 'D' from 'CCC-' by Standard Poor’s in May 2009.

Two weeks after Citigroup priced a $525 million CLO and a week after Orix, Apollo and GSO Blackstone all started arranging their own CLOs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has begun arranging a $500 million CLO.