In the aftermath of the financial crisis bank supervisors increased their scrutiny of leveraged lending by banks due to the high-risk profile of ...

The CFTC determined that leveraged tokens available through a DeFi protocol constituted retail commodity transactions that needed to be offered on a CFTC-registered contract market. DeFi interface ...

When institutional investors bought into a $1.8 billion leveraged loan syndication for Millennium Laboratories in 2014, they had no idea what they were getting into. Unbeknownst to them, the ...

Health Care services and device companies have become a core target for private equity investors. In recent years there has been a binge in the private equity acquisition of health care companies ...

ISTANBUL, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Turkey's Capital Markets Board said on Friday it had lowered the maximum limit on leveraged transactions for financial markets trading to a ratio of 10:1 from 100:1 in ...

The capital markets freeze has had several other important impacts on leveraged transactions. In a typical leveraged transaction, the buyer funds a portion of the purchase price with cash and then ...

Investors and bankers will remember 2005 as a banner year for loans. Issuers flocked to the appeal of the loan market’s floating rate nature and its pre-payability in order to lock up financings for ...

The loan default rate by amount rose to 1.44% in March, from 1.38% in February, driven higher by a trio of repeat defaulters who were unable to stay afloat following prior restructurings and have now ...

A consistent approach: The year 2008 marked a new era for US leveraged finance. Severe market dislocation resulted in significant declines in new issuance and banks instead were forced to focus on ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Americas Division today announced the appointment of Clarke Adams as Head of High Yield Capital Markets and Matt Burke as Head of ...