CDOs

A last-ditch lawsuit to shield collateralized loan obligations from risk retention reaches oral argument phase on Friday.

CLO manager CreekSource has priced its latest offering at wider-than-average spreads as it targets primarily first-lien senior secured loans with better-than-average speculative-grade ratings quality.

Issuance of U.S. collateralized loan obligtions is off to a slow start, with just two deals pricing in January; a single European deal priced.

Add Southcross Energy Partners, Seventy Seven Energy, Verso Corp., and Paragon Offshore to the list of credits held by collateralized loan obligation that appear to be headed for default.

As investors continue to unload loans to risky companies, pushing prices into distressed territory, those still holding these investments are increasingly looking the other way.

Babson Capital is the first CLO manager to brave market volatility at the start of the year with a new deal.

CLO managers are increasingly looking to non-traditional loan facilities to finance the economic interest in the credit risk that they must hold in their deals under the impending U.S. risk retention rules.

Raising capital has been tough for community banks ever since the financial crisis, especially the smallest ones. But a few investment firms have developed structured products that offer community banks a chance to band together to raise needed Tier 1 capital at relatively low cost.

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Much of the industry’s efforts in 2015 were focused on avoiding compliance with the regulation, which takes effect in December 2016.