European loan trading: CLO managers snack on Ifco loans
35 CLO managers were holding €364.2 million  €364.2 million of IFCO’s loans in April – all at par

Natixis prices second muni-project securitisation of year
Energy Efficient Equity (E3) priced its inaugural 'property-assessed clean energy' (Pace) deal today via Natixis    

Arrival of five-year bespokes draws in CLO investors
Synthetic bespoke tranches are undergoing a major shift, with dealers projecting five-year business to supersede previously dominant shorter tenors by the end of 2019.

High beta's time to shine in next leg of rally, says BAML
High-beta credits have yet to reward expectations they would lead the market rally in 2019, but this is about to change, according to a research note by Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Index tranche levels spike as investors advance into equity
Trading of credit index tranches is picking up, with some $61 billion worth changing hands in the space during the first quarter, according to data from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Bespoke gains pull CLO buyers as market tipped to hit $100bn
Synthetic bespoke issuance could catch up with the more visible CLO market this year, say structured credit specialists

Europe’s ABS market gets over STS road bump with VW deal
After months of waiting, Europe’s securitisation market saw the first ever deal to be structured as a Simple, Transparent & Standardised (STS) securitisation.

Regulation stifles SRTs, but banks and investors revel in quarter-four outperformance
Over the course of 2018 there was roughly €6.5 billion of issuance in the market for significant risk transfer (SRT) deals, sources say, with the last three months understood to be the busiest quarter on record

Ares and GSO carry unitranches over €1 billion mark
Flush with cash, European direct lending managers have finally passed the milestone one billion unitranche mark this quarter

Trups CDO spreads shift wide of late 2018 levels as EJF produces $314 million deal
Trups CDO spreads have widened since the end of last year – much like corporate credit spreads – after EJF Investments priced its sixth securitisation of financial company debt.

Spanish bank prices €972 million SRT with triple As paying 31bp
Cajamar Caja Rural, based in southern Spain, has priced a €972.1 million significant risk transfer (SRT), according to market sources

European loan issuance set to decline in 2019, says Moody's
The outlook for European leveraged loan issuance remains strong for next year, according to report by Moody’s, although levels will depend on M&A activity

Kartesia invests in equity of 2018 European CLO
Kartesia has invested in the equity of KKR’s latest European CLO 

Direct lenders flock to Munich as German deal flow picks up
German private debt is attracting a growing number of fund managers. Market sources say that deal flow through the first half of the year was at 65% of 2017’s total and had surpassed the number of private debt deals executed by funds in each of the previous five years

Santander issues £1.1 billion SRT featuring UK project finance loans
Banco Santander has completed a £1.12 billion significant risk transfer through a transaction dubbed Fitzroy 2018-1 CLO

African Development Bank prices landmark $1 billion SRT
The market for significant risk transfer (SRT) deals has taken another step forward with a first-of-its-kind deal, which has been originated by the African Development Bank

Canadian pension fund launches inaugural green bond
The Toronto-headquartered pension fund has become the first ever pension fund to issue a green bond

JP Morgan keeps up synthetic CDO momentum
Sources say that JP Morgan priced a $500 million synthetic CDO last month, underlining its position as one of the key deal arrangers in this market

Oxford University turns to the debt market with plans for a 100-year bond
Oxford has hired US investment bank JP Morgan to arrange investor meetings this week in London and Edinburgh about the bond, which has collected an Aaa rating by Moody's

Price talk circulates on new Moca marketplace lending securitisation
P2P Global Investments has announced initial price thoughts for its second securitisation of marketplace lending loans from the Zopa platform

Debtwire euro ABS round-up: Dutch RMBS takes centre stage in primary
All eyes are on a Dutch RMBS, which is the lone transaction in the immediate pipeline in the European ABS market this week

Debtwire European ABS round-up: Dutch RMBS enters pipeline
The primary market for European ABS transactions has slowed down with one visible deal in the pipeline – Elan’s Dutch RMBS, EDML 2017-1

Debtwire European ABS round-up: pipeline fills with Dutch ABS and RMBS
A range of niche securitisations are in the European ABS pipeline, according to a report by Debtwire, Creditflux’s sister publication