Bondholders turn up the heat in covenant battle

While 'covenant-lite' loans are grabbing headlines in the loan markets, issuers are being forced to add stronger covenant protection to get bonds away. Matthew Attwood reports

What do Estee Lauder, the Spanish infrastructure company Obrason Huarte Lain (OHL) and UK asset manager Henderson Group all have in common? All, to a greater or lesser extent, have felt the wrath of the investor community as they marketed new deals recently.

The A2/A/A rated fashion house, in the market with its first transaction since 2003, attempted to place the dollar deal without a change-of-control clause. Finding its rarity as an issuer insufficiently enticing for investors to forget their

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Credit risk & modelling – Special report 2021

This Risk special report provides an insight on the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and the strategies they are deploying to adapt to a more stringent regulatory approach.

The wild world of credit models

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a kind of schizophrenia in loan-loss models. When the pandemic hit, banks overprovisioned for credit losses on the assumption that the economy would head south. But when government stimulus packages put wads of cash in…

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