Bond realities and credit crowding
Global sovereign bond yields are going haywire. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is furiously trying to bring down borrowing costs, and, as we go to press, the Treasury Department said it would increase its extraordinary bond buying up to USD 6bn

Silver Point taps former Golub head of structured products for new role
Alan George joins Silver Point Capital in the newly-created position of head of credit finance and leverage solutions

Chenavari sees investment staff departures as credit fund actively hires
Investment employee departures occurred in recent months; Nicolas Verle, Nicholas Yu, and Aidan Reynolds recently joined Chenavari

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader launches with eight CLO partners
EXCLUSIVE: The newly merged law firm now has the largest structured finance legal team in the world, with 40-45 partners globally in leveraged finance and fund finance

Don’t just sit there waiting
Credit markets are evolving and innovating. Not only are they dealing with transformative artificial intelligence technology, they are coming out with new products, investing in new ways and dealing with a changing regulatory backdrop

Connecting women in credit
This year’s Creditflux Women in CLOs networking event was held in midtown New York. It was attended by more than 100 structured credit investors, managers, arrangers and lawyers

First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

Seward & Kissel hires structured credit head as CLOs, private funds converge
Taha Khan joins from Milbank to build out a structured credit practice that will advise on CLOs as well as complex fund finance solutions like CFOs and rated note feeders

Two more lawyers leave Cadwalader for Orrick
Orrick has added another two former Cadwalader lawyers to its growing structured finance team in London

Muzinich appoints Tatjana Greil Castro as global head of investments
The privately-owned corporate credit specialist has also appointed Thomas Samson as global head of high yield and Hugo Wheeler as head of global accounts and marketing

JPMorgan Commercial Bank taps new head of syndicated finance
The new head previously worked as head of Northeast and Canada regional leveraged finance in the global investment banking group

Creditflux showcases contributions, achievements and observations of outstanding leaders – Trailblazing Women
EXCLUSIVE: For International Women's Day, Creditflux speaks to Octagon's Lauren Law, PineBridge's Laila Kollmorgen and Ropes & Gray's Shona Ha

Alcentra adopts BSP brand, winds down direct lending biz
The Franklin Templeton-owned credit shops have also created a new global executive committee that brings together leaders from BSP, Alcentra and the newly acquired European lower middle market lender Apera

ECB hits out at proposed securitisation regulation overhaul
The European Central Bank released a paper criticizing parts of the European Commission's proposed changes to its securitization framework

Beach Point hires president and CIO, product and sales leader
The two new hires arrive after stints at TPG Angelo Gordon and Oak Hill Advisors, respectively

Monroe launches client solutions group to build blended portfolios
EXCLUSIVE: The private credit firm is forming a team to build products that mix investments across strategies such as direct lending, CLOs, structured credit, venture and more

Former Investcorp Credit CEO Jeremy Ghose joins The Chatterjee Group
Ghose told Creditflux that his role as President would be a strategic one that “looked to enhance the enterprise value” of the overall group, with the aim of boosting cash flow to develop the firm’s philanthropic operations

Sound Point hires former Alcentra president as CFO steps down
CFO Kevin Gerlitz is retiring from the role after 16 years

News in brief
US credit returns fail to reflect risk

Growth in structured finance sets off legal merry-go-round
The departure of John Goldfinch from Milbank’s structured finance practice in late 2023 began a succession of moves between law firms looking to expand their structured finance practices

Fund performance - February 2025
Structured finance leads, but all indices stay positive as 2025 begins

Credit funds at a glance - January 2025
Fund performance, recent hires, recent fundraising

Credit hedge funds - December 2024
Credit hedge fund performance

Fund performance - December 2024
CLO funds cap off strong 2024 with yet another good month

Fund performance
Entering the final three months of the year, CLO funds took a clean sweep of the top 10 spots in the Creditflux tables. October was strong overall, as over 85% of funds listed made positive returns