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The middle-market manager's diverse funding sources provide extra dry powder amid industry headwinds, and a head start to 2023 as CLO arbitrage improves.

Many of the biggest buyers of leveraged loans are facing pressure to cut back on their purchases as they run out of time to reinvest their money.

The strains are largely linked to aggressive rate increases by the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world, which have dramatically changed the landscape for lending.

The asset manager is raising $372 million, and managing a portfolio with higher than average rates of turnover and overlap in collateral composition.

Arrangers and analysts aren't predicting a return to the exponential growth of the past decade that turned a fringe concept into a $5.6 trillion asset class.

The companies, which reach thousands of merchants, recently launched environmental programs that use a network effect to cut carbon emissions.

Kearny Financial is partially restructuring its balance sheet in response to a problem that many banks are facing. The bank's actions should result in a sizeable income boost once they're fully phased in, an analyst said.

European banks are snapping up large pieces of their own collateralized loan obligations, keeping the market for CLOs afloat in the absence of the U.S. and Japanese banks.

Stabilization in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets has led to an opening for deals as banks try to reduce debt on their balance sheets before the holidays.

Corporate borrowers will consider tapping bond and loan markets in the coming week as lending costs drop and investors snap up debt ahead of 2022's close.