Creditflux parent rebrands as Acuris
Creditflux’s parent company gained a new name last month, with Mergermarket Group relaunching as Acuris

Past returns: drawing crowds is not easy for bond trading platforms
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Spotlight: Local exchange carriers - calling for rescue on the M&A hotline
Growth-starved US phone companies are seeing consolidation as the best way to improve performance

Leading fund: Lupus Alpha CLO Opportunity Notes I
Single-B CLO trades boost Lupus Alpha asset Management

Fishknife: Interval funds are a step in the right direction
They bring their own dangers, but interval funds are a better vehicle for managing illiquid credit than conventional funds

Fund platform AMX eyeballs credit funds
Willis Towers Watson’s hedge fund platform has grown to $1.5 billion – and there is space for credit managers  

Neuberger Berman raises $450 million for CMOA
Neuberger Berman says that it has raised $450 million for its risk retention vehicle, Neuberger Berman Loan Advisors

Credit manager wins $200 million mandate from Texas pension fund
A west coast asset manager will be responsible for a separate account which will invest opportunistically across the credit market

BlueMountain hires fund distribution specialist from Paulson
BlueMountain Capital Management has poached Claudio Macchetto from Paulson and assigned him to the newly created position of head of platform distribution

Octagon plans its first 40 Act credit fund with 50% bucket for CLOs
Octagon Credit Investors is working on what could become one of the first closed-end fund listings by an alternative credit manager in recent years

GSO goes in-house for its latest credit interval fund
GSO is planning a novel onshore fund to invest in loans and CLOs, according to a prospectus recently filed with the SEC

Oaktree takes over Fifth Street’s BDCs
Oaktree Capital has won the auction to take over Fifth Street Asset Management’s two business development companies

Macquarie rehires sales specialist for brokerage role in New York
Macquarie Capital has announced that it has rehired loan sales specialist John Florio for its credit business in New York

20-year Citi veteran earns promotion to head of European credit trading
Citi’s global head of distressed debt has been promoted to head of credit trading for Europe, the middle east and Africa, officials at the bank have confirmed

Cov-lites have invaded the US mid-market, investors hear
Covenant-lite documentation has made strong inroads into US mid-market loans in the past year

Managers take baby steps into retail loans
Retail loans have been out of favour among fund managers for some time, and although this sentiment persists, CLO-i data shows that there is an active two-way market for certain names

Fees on the line as CLO investors fight back over ramp-up failings
CLO managers globally are being chastised for failing to deliver on their model portfolios.

Energy credit head takes on bigger role at GSO in New York
Dwight Scott has been promoted to president of GSO Capital Partners in New York, according to Bloomberg

Carlyle poaches credit specialist from HPS in New York
Carlyle Group is continuing to pump resources into credit with the firm announcing that it has hired a head of credit opportunities based in New York

Deutsche Bank withdraws job offer for top fixed income role, says report
In an unusual turn of events, Deutsche Bank is reported to have rescinded an offer to hire a top credit specialist to the role of head of fixed income, reports Business Insider

GoldenTree squares up for huge credit interval fund launch
GoldenTree Asset Management has partnered with a retail distribution giant on the latest example of a credit interval fund, according to SEC filings

CLOs dodged recent loan defaults, according to Wells Fargo
CLO exposure to three recent US loan defaults has been minimal, according to Wells Fargo research

Deutsche Bank hires two to its loans team in New York
After strengthening its high yield team in New York, Deutsche Bank has turned its attention to its loans business