Shimao credit event auction not needed, rules DC
Holders of CDS protection on Shimao Group Holdings will have to physically settle contracts

EU inflation prints frame challenge ahead as horror show first half ends
Financial markets are heading into the weekend with a rare stationary session, but the mood is more one of shellshock than considered positioning, after one of the worst first halves to a year on record

Consumer confidence shock sends spreads back to wides
Weak US consumer confidence numbers on Tuesday sent shockwaves through markets that are continuing to reverberate in Wednesday's trading session

Chinese property industry suffers fourth credit event of year
Shimao Group Holdings has triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, making it the fourth Chinese property firm this year to do so

Fourth Chinese real estate firm posed as credit event
Shimao Group Holdings is the subject of a failure-to-pay credit event question, making it the fourth Chinese property firm this year to be referred to the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee

Internet company triggers restructuring credit event at third time of asking
Yandex, the multinational internet and search engine company that predominantly serves Russian and Russian language users, has triggered a restructuring credit event

Russian credit event auction plans put on hold after US sanctions update
Settlement of Russian Federation sovereign CDS has hit a delay, with the US having published updated advice on sanctions that could jeopardise the ability to conduct a credit event auction

Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March

Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

   

Credit funds at a glance (June 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
 
   

DC rejects Yandex credit event question
Yandex will not be weighed as a credit event, with the Credit Derivative Determinations Committee having rejected the query it received on the matter

Sunac CDS must be physically settled, says DC
No credit event auction is required to settle CDS contracts referencing Sunac China Holdings, the Asia Ex-Japan Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled

China builds wall of defaults as third real estate co triggers
Sunac China Holdings has become the third Chinese property company this year to trigger a failure-to-pay credit event

Fund performance: Credit bounces back from February blues
March performance figures were a slight improvement from the market turn in February; 47% of funds made positive returns, an increase on 17% the previous month

Credit hedge funds (May 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns  

Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
   

Dispersion begets dispersion in mixed bag of fund returns
Idiosyncratic risks are set to rise in credit, with fund managers becoming occupied with tail risks, and that has been seen in a scattered set of March hedge fund returns

Domino effect as third Chinese property credit event question topples onto DC's pile
Sunac China Holdings has become the third Chinese property company in as many months to be proposed to the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee as a potential credit event

German property co hits new wides as investors scrutinise investigation report
The bearish momentum that gripped financial markets on Friday has spilled over the weekend into Monday's session, with an especially big move in the debt of one German real estate borrower taking it to worrisome spread levels

Potential failure to pay has occurred on Russian CDS, says Determinations Committee
The Russian Federation is moving closer to triggering a credit event on foreign debt, with the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee having ruled a potential failure to pay has occurred

RusRail no-auction vote means CDS holders must track down bonds
Russian Railways CDS contracts will not be settled via auction despite the borrower having triggered a failure-to-pay credit event, the Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee has ruled

Fund performance: Credit slumps widely as CLOs lag furthest behind
February’s market turn brought a variety of fund categories into the Creditflux top ten as six different categories were represented -- US high yield standing tallest among them

Credit hedge funds (April 2022)
Credit hedge fund returns

Credit funds at a glance (April 2022)
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit