JPMorgan credit research team pitches top trades at levfin conference, strategists recommend overweight BBs
Buy opportunities in AT1 debt, periphery banks, Ardagh Metal, Altice France, Ithaca; Sell ideas on Guala Closures, Nissan, Nomad Foods, Hapag Lloyd
 

JPMorgan’s asset management arm seeks to raise direct lending fund
EXCLUSIVE: The asset management unit is raising capital from institutional investors for direct lending as the bank steps up lending from its balance sheet.

Clearlake set to seal private credit loan to replace risky Dun & Bradstreet financing
EXCLUSIVE: Ares leads USD 5bn unitranche loan with JPMorgan among expected lenders that will replace original 364-day financing

JPMorgan enters private credit big leagues with USD 4bn Boeing unit financing
EXCLUSIVE: The bank takes down the third-largest piece of the giant unitranche, lending shoulder-to-shoulder with direct-lending giants

Welcome to Miami, good luck getting on the deal
JPM leveraged finance conference attracts over 3000 to South Beach where participants expect LME activity to remain high and saw increased private credit presence
 

JPMorgan strikes private credit partnership with Octagon
EXCLUSIVE: JPMorgan and Octagon's private credit tie-up comes as both expand into the private credit space

JPMorgan, co-lenders commit USD 65bn to direct lending
USD 50bn from the bank’s own balance sheet to support private credit deals

JPMorgan to kick start private debt fund for wealthy individuals
Structured as an interval fund, JPMorgan Asset Management plans to use the fund to invest across direct lending, asset based finance and distressed debt investments.

JPMorgan is in negotiations to expand roster of private credit partners
JPMorgan is in active negotiations to build a roster of private credit partnerships to bolster its presence in the asset class

JP Morgan CIO PM finds his way to ABL fund
Doug Nicholson, a portfolio manager in the chief investment office at JP Morgan for over 15 years, has jumped to a buy-side private credit firm

Antares plans unit buying private credit loans from other lenders
Antares eyes buidling out a private credit secondary business to buy loans from other lenders

Evolution hires new managing director from JP Morgan
Evolution Credit Partners has added a managing director on the investment team, helping grow the Boston-headquartered firm's working capital finance and leveraged finance businesses

Veteran JP Morgan credit trader leaves for buy-side
JP Morgan's global head of macro credit trading has left to move to a London-based hedge fund 

It's time for bullish reversal on IG credit to play decompression: JP Morgan
Having been bearish most of the year JP Morgan has changed its view on investment grade credit to neutral, saying value has become too cheap to ignore

Euro credit woes vs US set to resume with cyclicals shock likely: JP Morgan
Further decoupling lies ahead between euro and dollar credit, despite the recent positioning squeeze, warn JP Morgan credit strategists

Position cutting tames market rally and strategists warn on primary impact
Caution is the watchword across financial markets on Tuesday, with the strong recent run giving way to hedging and position cutting ahead of a much-anticipated US inflation reading on Wednesday

Credit lacks 'good answer' on what could cap spread widening: JP Morgan
Without any clear candidates to put a lid on spread widening, investment grade and high yield credit markets look set to extend much wider than current levels, warn JP Morgan strategists

JP Morgan splits global head of institutional structuring role as it promotes three
JP Morgan has rejigged part of its credit structuring business with a set of promotions for officials who have covered SRTs, CLOs and CSOs as part of cross-asset roles

Blackstone lands big name as bank's synthetic structured credit talisman joins buyside
Blackstone has hired a well known figure from the synthetic structured credit market, with a prominent name in CSOs joining the firm after 18 years working on the sell-side 

LCH extends credit index option product to buy side
BNP Paribas and JP Morgan are the first banks to offer client clearing of credit index options through LCH CDSClear

Europe leads relief rally with energy and peripheral bank credits outperforming
Credit spreads are making a broad move tighter on Tuesday, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde having tried to rein back rate hike expectations and oil company BP posting strong profits

Brace yourselves for increasing ESG basis in credit
One of the safest bets in credit for 2022 is that ESG focus will intensify, with market participants anticipating a surge of green bond issuance as well as widening spread dispersion between climate leaders and underperformers

Credit bull run falters as central bank glow abates
Thoughts that the credit market had taken a positive directional shift are turning, after Tuesday’s session has brought a sizeable retracement wider, but credit strategists predict an overall firming of tone into the end of the year off the back of dovish central bank meetings

Rising star portfolio has room to run, says JP Morgan
The theme of 'rising stars' still has room to run and investors should consider a basket of candidates to benefit in the coming months, according to JP Morgan credit strategists

Bank's macro credit trading head lands buy-side job at Citadel
An experienced credit trader at a large US bank has taken on his first buy-side role