The U.S. Leveraged Finance team have launched a monthly podcast series entitled "The Upgrade." This series focuses on leveraged finance issuers that have upward rating potential, providing listeners with concise insights from the primary analyst along with relevant CLO market implications. Other timely topics will be also be discussed.

This episode explores how the outlook for Scientific Games Corp. has recently been revised to positive and the company subsequently completed a debt offering to refinance existing debt. Ariel Silverberg joins Robert Schulz and Daniel Hu to discuss the 16th widest held loan issuer and the competitive landscape for Scientific Games Corp going forward.