Allison Bisbey

Wells Fargo & Co. and Deutsche Bank will begin taking orders Wednesday for $2.7 billion of syndicated loans to Health Management Associates, a person familiar with the situation said.

Bankers have "pulled out all the stops" to help these major buyers of leveraged loans maneuver around new obstacles to deals.

Sellers of leveraged bank loans want to draw institutional investors into an arena in danger of losing its traditional buyers.

GrafTech International said Tuesday that it has obtained a new five-year, $570 million revolving line of credit from a group of lenders including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and BNP Paribas.

In the third quarter, investors woke up to the realization that the world was a riskier place, and the leveraged loan market has had to adjust.

Citigroup Inc. is marketing Apidos Capital Management's new $395 million collateralized loan obligation, according to people familiar with the deal.

In another sign that concerns about the U.S. economy and Europe's debt crisis are weighing on the corporate term loan market, the pipeline of loans in process has fallen by half from its high this year, according to Thomson Reuters.

SunTrust Banks Inc. is shopping a $450 million term loan for Omnicare to institutional investors.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has established a price target for a $500 million term loan it's marketing to institutional investors that Lender Processing Services Inc. will use to refinance debt.

The slowly reviving collateralized loan obligation market is getting a boost from an unexpected source: one of the biggest financial blowups in history.

Global issuance of collateralized loan obligations is at $5 billion via 13 deals for the year to date through July 15, according to Dealogic.

The mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial is seeking a $575 million term loan B to finance its acquisition of Litton from Goldman Sachs.

Mutual funds that invest in leveraged loans may be pulling in less new money, but banks themselves have been picking up the slack in lending, putting them in competition with institutional investors and contributing to the general froth in the market.

Thirteen of the 14 banks on the company's syndicated credit line were amenable to renegotiating the terms. But there was a holdout.

Fewer hedge funds opened their doors in the fourth quarter, according to HFR Hedge Fund Research. Hedge fund launches slipped to 220 in the quarter, HFS said.

A pickup in commercial mortgage-backed securities issuance is giving the market a much-needed liquidity boost, but underwriting standards are slipping as sponsors scramble to find enough collateral for deals.

Asset-backed bonds pooling streams of income from unusual sources like billboard advertisements, franchise loans, cell tower leases and tobacco settlement fees are making a comeback.

Hedge fund launches climbed to 260 in the three months that ended in September, an increase of nearly 30% from 201 in the second quarter, according to data released Wednesday by Hedge Fund Research.

FBR Capital Markets, a 21-year-old investment bank hobbled during the financial crisis by a bloated cost structure and ties to a mortgage REIT, seems to be making all of the right moves. But it is still waiting for them to pay off.

New York Life Investments has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Private Advisors LLC, a fund of hedge funds manager in Richmond, Va.