CDOs

Since 2013, CLO Managers have been issuing notes with rates that are initially low, but step up after 18 to 24 months, betting that they can refinance them more cheaply; so far their success has been mixed.

Leveraged loan market participants will have to wait a little longer for a big change meant to speed up trade settlement.

An unusual way of attracting investors in the riskiest slices of collateralized loan obligations is coming under scrutiny.

Many energy lenders have begun to sour on shared national credits after years of using the hefty loans to bulk up their balance sheets.

U.S. CLO issuance gained traction in the second quarter, as the dollar volume of deals more than doubled after a sluggish start to the year. Nearly half the respondents in the survey now project CLO issuance to reach about $45 billion for the full year, well below forecasts made at the start of the year.

An eventual "Brexit" from the European Union could exclude CLO managers and investors from the CLO market under existing and proposed EU rules that restrict risk-retention and market activity to EU regulated firms.

DFG Investment Advisors has raised a $100 million fund that it will use to satisfy impending regulations enacted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act requiring CLO managers to have “skin in the game” of their deals.

The economics of actively managing a pool of leveraged loans for the benefit of several different classes of investors is not good. So some CLO managers are putting their deals on autopilot.

A spring survey of European asset-backed portfolio managers shows a vast majority expects to increase their securitization holdings in 2016. But many see a “muted level” of issuance in which to add securities, according to the DBRS polling.

EU Parliament member Paul Tang shocked the region’s securitization industry last week when he proposed increasing the amount of “skin in the game” for asset-backeds, by four-fold, to 20% from 5%. He's giving the keynote at IMN's Global ABS conference