Middle Market CLOs Return — But It's Different This Time
May 15, 2012 Collateralized loan obligations are gaining new life as a way for nonbanks to finance loans to midsize businesses. NXT...

Corporate Borrowers Packing Fewer Bank-Credit Revolvers
April 20, 2012 Revolving credit lines hit their lowest point in two years in the first quarter. The decline underscored that competing forms...

Citigroup, Highland Capital Battle Over Control of a Collateralized Loan Obligation
April 17, 2012 Citigroup has ulterior financial motives in trying to oust Highland as portfolio manager of Liberty CLO, Highland says in a...

The Loan Fire Sale That Wasn't
April 11, 2012 U.S. banks and other shoppers were ready to feast on asset sales by troubled European banks, but debt finance expert Stephen...

Secured Creditors Fight for Rights in Bankruptcy Auctions
March 20, 2012 Debtors and their lenders will square off before the Supreme Court next month over a bidding tactic that secured lenders use...

Possible Downgrades Threaten Bank Trustees of CLOs
March 16, 2012 Banks that act as trustees on collateralized loan obligations must have strong credit ratings, and the threat of downgrades...

Smaller Banks Get Chance to Break Into Loan Syndicate
February 16, 2012 CIFC Corp. and Sandler O'Neill pitch community and midsize banks on participation in syndicated C&I loan deals — a market...

B of A Subpoenaed by Massachusetts Over CLOs
February 10, 2012 Massachusetts' top securities regulator has asked Bank of America to turn over documents related to two collateralized loan...

Price Is Right, But Timing Wrong, for Leveraged Loans
February 6, 2012 Investors in January backed off the higher rates they had been demanding for leveraged loans, but prospective issuers are...

Leveraged Loans to Stay Strong Despite World of Weakness
January 5, 2012 Participants in the market are confident that last year's $1.1 trillion of loans can be topped, but it's unclear whether...