Cloud 9fin

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's HY and leveraged loans (non-existent) deals, head of covenant research Caitlin Carey and senior covenant analyst Brian Dearing discuss Ontex's change of control provision, ESG analyst Sam Stevens discusses ESG red flags present in Russian society prior to the current sanctions and editor Chris Haffenden and senior reporter Owen Sanderson give us the latest on the Russia-Ukraine conflict's effect on European leveraged finance.

0:00 - Intro
01:40 - Covenant close-up: Ontex change of control
9:30 - Please raise responsibly: Russian red flags
14:28 - Deep discussion: Ukraine-Russian conflict

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's HY and leveraged loans deals, head of covenant research Caitlin Carey discusses voting caps, ESG analyst Sam Stevens discusses care home credits in light of the Orpea controversy and editor Chris Haffenden and loans reported Michal Skýpala give us the latest on Schur Flexibles, after the company's shock announcement to lenders.

0:00 - Intro
00:49 - Levfin wrap
01:24 - Covenant close-up: Voting caps
8:15 - Please raise responsibly: Care homes
16:27 - Deep discussion: Schur Flexibles

In this episode, US editor Will Caiger-Smith talks to Dave Preston of AGL about the expanding CLO investor base, leveraged loan underwriting standards, and ESG.

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's HY and leveraged loans deals, head of covenant research Caitlin Carey discusses "no worse" ratio tests, credit analysts Josh Latham and Alex Manolopoulos talk the good, the bad and the ugly of ESG margin ratchets and coupon step-downs and editor Chris Haffenden gives us the latest on Saipem.

0:00 - Intro
00:53 - Levfin wrap
01:31 - Covenant close-up: "No worse" ratio tests
11:06 - Please raise responsibly: ESG ratchets and step-downs - the good, the bad and the ugly
16:07 - Deep discussion: Saipem

A new series of guests interviews recorded at 9fin’s New York headquarters by US editor Will Caiger-Smith. In this debut episode, we discuss equity volatility, the rush to floating rate assets, and the recent Bausch Health refi.

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's HY and leveraged loans deals, head of covenant research Caitlin Carey discusses liens covenants touching on permitted liens vs permitted collateral liens and ESG analyst Jack David gives us an update on sustainability-linked bonds and loans for this January. For his Cloud 9fin debut US editor Will Caiger-Smith gives us a look into his market and discusses the driving forces behind a continuing shift towards loans.

In this special episode the 9fin content and analytics team looks back on a blockbuster year and ahead to slightly more troubled waters. Credit analyst Ben Hoskin and loans reporter Katharine Hidalgo look at bonds and loans, editor Chris Haffenden takes us through the restructuring and distressed debt spaces, senior reporter Owen Sanderson looks at CLOs and ESG analyst Jack David reviews the ESG field.

CEO Steven Hunter and loans reporter Michal Skýpala face off against editor Chris Haffenden and senior reporter Owen Sanderson in our first annual leveraged finance Christmas quiz. The teams will answer questions on loans, bonds and ESG in a quiz that includes some impossible questions, some useless questions and maybe one or two interesting ones!