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

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

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

Former Deutsche Bank big hitter moves to wealth manager
Deutsche Bank’s former head of sales for the Americas has re-emerged on the buy side, joining wealth management firm Alexandria Capital

Debtwire euro ABS round-up: two UK deals enter the pipeline
Just one transaction priced in Europe’s ABS market last week, but another two have entered the pipeline

Regulators delay implementation of STS rules
Regulators in Europe have opted to take a slow and steady approach to implementing new simple, transparent and standardised (STS) and revamped risk retention rules.

Market participants strike bullish tone on STS regulation
IMN’s Global ABS Conference in Barcelona came to a close yesterday and one of the main talking points for the ABS market was the successful resolution to disputes between the market and the European parliament over STS (simple, transparent and standardised) legislation

Diverse Prytania fund posts promising 2017 gains
Prytania Investment Advisors has got off to a strong start in 2017 with the manager’s Athena Fund gaining 8.4% through February

EJF recycles legacy assets to price first trups CDO of 2017
Hedge fund manager EJF Capital is understood to have priced a trust-preferred CDO backed by assets issued before the crisis

Cairn's Jackson set to join large asset manager in London
Andrew Jackson has left his post as chief investment officer at Cairn Capital and well-placed sources have told Creditflux that he is due to join a fund manager in London

German bad bank wins huge CLO auction
A German bad bank has emerged as the winner of a huge auction of CLOs and other asset-backed securities this morning

Timing of CLO b-wic puzzles market participants
A huge CLO bid list scheduled for Friday (10 March) represents part of the liquidation of a CDO of ABS, according to Creditflux’s sister intelligence service Debtwire ABS

Oaktree branches into structured credit with major hire in Los Angeles
Oaktree Capital Management has signalled that it is making a major push into structured credit and CLO investing with sources indicating that the asset manager has hired an official who oversaw $40 billion of structured credit assets in his previous role

Eurizon follows ECB's lead with new structured credit fund
Eurizon Capital has launched a new fund to target European structured credit opportunities – a market which it says has been strengthened thanks to the ECB’s ABS purchasing scheme

European ABS b-wics have an 80% success rate, finds TwentyFour
In a blog posted yesterday, TwentyFour Asset Management looks into liquidity in the European ABS market and finds that over the last 12 months, 80% of assets on b-wics have traded.

Jefferies parts company with co-head of its global CLO business
A former Lehman Brothers official, who has been instrumental in building out Jefferies' CLO desk, has left the brokerage in the last few days