Consumer loan ABS grows as Conn's debuts and Marlette prices
The consumer loan ABS pipeline is heating up with online lender Marlette Funding and home appliance chain Conn's Appliances in the market this week with new deals.
View ArticleKKR readies SMCP listing in Paris
SMCP, the French fashion firm controlled by KKR, registered its document de base with regulators on Tuesday, in the first step towards a possible IPO.
View ArticleEuro rush ahead of ECB meeting, but Draghi influence debated
Issuers lined up to print in euros on Tuesday as a vital European Central Bank meeting loomed later in the week — but bankers were divided as to how much the flurry of deals was down to concerns over...
View ArticleSpain and Basque bring home euros
All bonds great and small from the Iberian market were available on Tuesday, as the Spanish sovereign brought a long-awaited 30 year syndication and the Community of the Basque Country made a rare...
View ArticleJust scrap operational risk - it can't really be measured
Regulation is never going to have the beauty and brevity of a haiku, or a tweet, but simplicity is still a virtue, and complexity is a red flag. The Basel Committee’s Operational Risk rules are...
View ArticleLending to Chinese state-owned enterprises: Have faith
The influx of Chinese M&A into Europe has brought the terrifying task of evaluating the credit risk of clandestine Chinese state-owned enterprises — but fear not, the loans so far protect lenders...
View ArticleVeolia bags 47.5% premium with €700m negative yield convertible
Veolia Environnement, the French water, waste and power company, has today joined the parade of investment grade blue chip companies launching convertible bonds at attractive terms — in this case, a...
View ArticleUCI readies Spanish RMBS
Spanish mortgage specialist, Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios has opened books for its second post-crisis RMBS deal, Prado II, with initial price thoughts for the senior notes on offer broadly in line...
View ArticleSuzuki zooms to ¥200bn in rare automotive CB to invest in India
Japanese convertible bond issuance in the European market has been quiet so far this year, but kicked on sharply on Monday when Suzuki Motor Corp launched a ¥200bn ($1.75bn) deal that one banker said...
View ArticleFreddie Mac prices second CRT deal of year
Freddie Mac has priced STACR 2016-HQA1, the government sponsored agency's second credit risk transfer (CRT) deal of the year.
View ArticleMore legal final maturities extended on FFELP ABS
Navient on Tuesday announced the extension of legal final maturity dates on additional outstanding student loan bonds, as the market waits on Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings to implement...
View ArticleLeasePlan brings back €1.55bn high yield bond, pulled in February
The European high yield market experienced a flush of hope on Wednesday as LeasePlan, the Dutch car finance bank, returned with the €1.55bn bond funding for its LBO, which it had pulled in February.
View ArticleCMBS issuers tipped to change tack on risk retention
Issuers of CMBS are said to be rethinking their approach to risk retention, shifting the burden of compliance from the buyers of the most subordinated bonds to the banks themselves, according to a...
View ArticleSSAs in dollar spurt before eyes turn to Fed
Council of Europe Development Bank and World Bank on Wednesday added to a strong week from public sector borrowers in the dollar market ahead of a vitally important US Federal Reserve meeting.
View ArticleVertu Motors raises £35m in daytime equity ABB
Vertu Motors, the UK retailer of used and new cars, raised £35m from an intraday block sale of new shares on Wednesday.
View ArticleNRW breaks green record
The State of North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday more than doubled the record size for a green bond from a European sub-sovereign, pricing a deal several basis points inside initial price thoughts.
View ArticleCLO market springs to life as turmoil eases
A break in market volatility in recent weeks has injected new life into the beleaguered US CLO market, following a tepid start to 2016.
View ArticleFuji Machine’s ¥10bn CB for buyback flies off the books
Fuji Machine Manufacturing issued a ¥10bn ($89m) convertible bond on Wednesday, selling it outside Japan. Mizuho led the deal, which was priced at the top of the range, eight times oversubscribed.
View ArticleRussian banks count cost of new ABS risk regs
New risk weighting requirements in Russia could make securitization ‘unfeasible’ in the country, according to a senior ABS banker.
View ArticleReprieve for FX and equity as EU toughens rules on uncleared margin
European Union regulators have published final draft rules for uncleared derivatives that make important concessions to lobbyists on margin requirements for some derivative contracts, but show no sign...
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