Deutsche Bank plans new securitisation of UK consumer loans
Deutsche Bank is working with P2P Global Investments to price a securitisation backed by UK unsecured consumer loans

White & Case promotes three credit lawyers to partners in US and Europe
White & Case has announced the promotion of three lawyers with credit expertise to its partnership in offices across the US and Europe

New Mexico council allocates $100 million each to four credit-focused funds
The New Mexico Investment Council is poised to invest in an HPS Investment Partners loan fund and boost its investments in three credit-focused funds

Debtwire euro ABS round-up: variety of deals enter the pipeline
The European ABS pipeline contains a variety of transactions, according to a report by Debtwire

Griffin shifts BDC assets to credit fund managed by Bain
Griffin Capital Company has shifted assets from its Capital BDC into a closed-end credit fund, dropping Benefit Street Partners as subadvisor to those assets in the process

Angel Oak joins growth in credit interval funds
Angel Oak is set to become the latest credit manager to target retail investors following in the footsteps of Alcentra, GoldenTree, GSO and Octagon 

A successful transition from prop desk to hedge fund
This month 10 years ago, negotiations over the fate of an important set of structured credit investors were on a knife edge

Join the debate: should a government bond make it through an ethical screen?
Alcohol – yes (tax benefit); Tobacco – yes (tax benefit); Weapons – absolutely; government bond??

Local Pensions Partnership looks to go direct with £1.3 billion credit fund
The Local Pensions Partnership (LPP), which runs the pension schemes of two separate UK local government areas, has announced the launch of a £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) credit fund

London-based Signal raises €725 million for credit and real estate funds
London-based private asset management firm Signal Capital Partners has raised €725 million with an investment strategy targeting credit and real estate special situations

Alcentra raises €690 million for closed-end credit fund
BNY Mellon subsidiary Alcentra has closed its Clareant Strategic Credit Fund with sales of €690 million. The vehicle, which originally had a target size of €500 million, is dedicated to opportunistic investing in the loans, bonds and structured credit of European companies

Atlanta boutique moves into structured credit with new fund
Boutique asset management firm Ardent has launched a new credit vehicle -- the third fund for the Atlanta-based company

Apollo launches two more structured credit funds
Apollo Capital Management has launched two new structured credit funds

Cairn appoints Burke and Godall as co-chief investment officers
Cairn Capital has appointed Andrew Burke and Asif Godall as co-chief investment officers

Seer's Lamont set to join European credit firm as managing partner
European merchant bank has signalled big plans in structured credit by hiring a well-known former Deutsche Bank figure

Experienced CLO trader joins Orchard in London
Structured credit specialist adds a portfolio manager, who previously served at Deutsche Bank and Brevan Howard, to its team in London

Goldman's former head of structured credit trading to move to the buy side
Goldman Sachs veteran Jerry Ouderkirk is joining Pretium Partners, according to a Bloomberg report

LibreMax eyes esoteric assets as it makes major structured credit hire
Market sources say US hedge fund manager is looking beyond hedge fund structures for a new business aimed at esoteric credit assets. To lead this project, the firm has hired a big name in CLOs and structured credit

Real estate advisor hires from CBRE for new structured finance unit
Cushman & Wakefield has launched a debt and structured finance unit in Amsterdam, appointing two specialists from CBRE to the team

Black Diamond hires structured credit specialist from Natixis's CLO desk
Black Diamond Capital Management has hired former Natixis credit specialist Andy Phelps as a senior managing director, after working alongside him on CLO deals for years

Latham & Watkins hires structured finance veteran to its London office
Structured finance veteran Simeon Rudin joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, according to a press release

Credit fund manager Frost allows management fees to thaw down to 50bp
San Antonio-based Frost Investment Advisors has slashed management fees on its CLO-heavy credit fund

Former Credit Suisse affiliate takes in $115 million for structured credit fund
A New York-based credit manager that spun out of Credit Suisse has raised more than $115 million in the last year for its for a structured credit strategy that now totals $677 million

Saba's former head of Europe lands at large credit hedge fund manager
The former head of Europe for Saba Capital Management has become a London-based credit manager's second major hire in four months