The weather might not have been very spring-like (at least in London), but April heralded definite signs of a thaw in the loan markets. The standoff between the banks and opportunity funds that resulted in the $237 billion logjam of loans in the leveraged finance market (see Leveraged finance: Funds go hungry as distressed trough fails to fill , Euromoney, December 2007) has finally ended, with the former having blinked first.
A series of announcements by large investment banks of loan sales to institutional buyers has been greeted with a sigh of relief in the market, eager to see the stuck pipeline shifted.
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