Points up front: World Cup simulation shows models don’t work
England as fourth favourites? Pull the other one

Points up front: Catholic taste does not include credit derivatives
Is the pope a credit picker? It appears as though he is 

We are not structured finance investors – we are corporate credit specialists
Fair Oaks' Miguel Ramos-Fuentenebro takes our credit quiz

Future returns: we've (not) got a case of the blues
Regular readers may notice a slight change to this, the 201st issue of Creditflux...

They said it: regulators are using The Big Short as their frame of reference
The LMA’s Nicholas Voisey describes why it’s difficult to campaign for the European loan market

Points up front: traders are dedicated, no matter how hot it gets
When a fire alarm goes off, you should make your way to the nearest exit: unless you’re a trader

Points up front: a few weeks' worth of dual compliance
Dual compliance is so 2017. And yet European CLO managers are pursuing US risk retention compliance. Perhaps memories of 2013 are resurfacing

Join the debate: most memorable moment in credit
At Creditflux we’ve now produced 200 monthly magazines since Fishknife first came up with the idea of tracking the global credit markets in 2001). We asked several key credit industry officials about their most memorable moment in credit

Staying afloat in credit takes care and character
In his final article, our columnist sheds light on his identity and has some 'nice' advice for those navigating credit’s changeable oceans

Past returns: Europe's own risk retention rewrite
Five years ago we reported that European CLO managers were hunting for partners to retain risk retention on their behalf. Shortly after, regulators performed a U-turn (nothing new here) and decided to prohibit third parties from acting as risk retainers

Join the debate: flippin' heck, you're distorting the CLO market
After our report on a CLO investor flipping 2018 bonds before the deals had even closed, one reader pointed out that this "masks true demand"

Points up front: the best way to source direct lending loans is to sit and wait
Spend a few minutes in the company of a direct lending manager and you’re sure to hear about the lengths to which funds go in order to source deals (one firm said that it operates a call centre in order to contact borrowers). Not so Pascal Meysson, managing director at Alcentra.

Past returns: pension scheme gets stung after regulators rewrite CLO rules
Five years ago, we reported that US pension funds were boosting their allocation to euro-denominated credit. One institution in particular led the way by supporting the first European CLO to be issued since the global financial crisis

European direct lending may not be as European as it seems
In European direct lending, raising capital has become the easy part of a manager’s job. But deploying that capital is more difficult, says Diala Minott, a London-based partner at law firm Paul Hastings

If there’s an app for it, competitors face a problem
L&G's Martin Reeves takes our credit quiz

Join the debate: is Christopher Nolan moonlighting for Creditflux?
A story last month on direct lender Prestige caused one reader to draw comparisons with a script from film director Christopher Nolan 

Points up front: zombie managers near extinction
The long-term nature of CLOs means the market tends to have a large number of zombie managers, those with one or two deals outstanding but no plans for future issuance. However, a spate of redemptions, especially in Europe, has swept away some of the ghostly deadwood.

They said it: the dangers of corporate finance
Cairn Capital's Asif Godall gives his take on companies that don't have a deleveraging plan

The biggest credit stories in 2017
CLO ramp-up risk, new risk retention proposals and new CLO joint ventures were in the headlines last year. Here, Creditflux reveals the most read stories of 2017

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Past returns: Permira’s considered approach to CLO launches
This month 10 years ago, private equity firm Permira made its debut in the European CLO market

Going short IG against the ECB will eventually pay off
Chenavari’s Demian Brasil takes our credit quiz

Markets are complacent and partying like it’s 2006
Algebris’s Alberto Gallo takes our credit quiz

Past returns
We look back to when CLO investors were morphing into CLO managers and when BlueCrest went on a hiring spree for its credit business

How credit fraud could make a comeback
Easy credit leads inevitably to fraud, whether in consumer credit or corporate lending