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Cloud 9fin

Leveraged finance, distressed debt, and private credit drive today’s markets. Cloud 9fin delivers expert insights on high-yield bonds, syndicated loans, direct lending, and debt restructuring. Join top analysts and investors as we explore credit markets, special situations, and private debt strategies shaping the industry. From credit risk assessment to institutional credit trends, each episode provides actionable intelligence for fund managers, institutional investors, and financial professionals

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17:10

2023 Predictions

Cloud 9fin ·

2023/01/12

The 9fin editorial team discusses trends they expect to see in 2023 in the leveraged finance, restructuring and CLO spaces.

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12:28

US Edition...in London — Veon, VimpelCom and Russian...

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/12/22

The holidays are upon us, but sanctions never sleep. This week, 9fin's Bianca Boorer has been in court covering Veon's creative use of UK restructuring law to pay down its Russian bondholders and cut ties with VimpleCom, its Moscow subsidiary. She explains this complex transaction for Will Caiger-Smith.

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14:21

2022 Review

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/12/16

The 9fin editorial team has been with you all year to discuss the major trends affecting the leveraged finance industry. In this 2022 wrap up we discuss the Russia-Ukraine war's impact on the industry, inflation and how the sellside tackled its hung pipeline. We don't go so far as to predict 2023 trends just yet, but we reckon A&Es will play a big part. Thanks to all our listeners and contributors and we look forward to speaking to you next year!

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16:11

US Edition — When MFN disputes meet private credit

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/12/08

What does MFN stand for? Why does it appear in corporate credit agreements? Why would borrowers try to get around it and what happens when they succeed? And what does all of this mean for the private credit market after years of hot dealmaking? Will Caiger-Smith and Bill Weisbrod break it all down.

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16:23

PRI In Person Wrap Up - Net Zero special

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/12/01

In this special episode the Cloud 9fin team discusses their experience of the PRI In Person conference in Barcelona and speaks to delegates from Neuberger Berman, Alliance Bernstein, BNP Paribas and Circle Economy.

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14:22

US Edition — Holiday news roundup

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/11/23

It's Thanksgiving week in the US, which normally means the beginning of the end for the year's primary issuance — but this year might not follow the normal rules. We round up recent primary market news, explain the deteriorating outlook in the building products and software sectors, and unpack some new data around investor-facing hires on the buyside.

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17:36

Orpea, structural adjustments, SFDR disclosures

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/11/17

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's activity and co-head of European loans research Jainisha Amin discusses structural adjustments. ESG analyst Sammy Cole does a second part on new developments in SFDR and editor Chris Haffenden and distressed debt reporter Bianca Boorer talk Orpea's new restructuring plan.

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15:35

US Edition — The CLO reinvestment crunch

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/11/10

The primary market is back open (for now) but there's a slow squeeze happening in secondary. Liquidity is poor, and lower-rated credits are underperforming — and it's going to get worse before it gets better. Will Caiger-Smith sits down with Emily Fasold to talk about the reinvestment crunch.

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17:55

Maturity wall, Envision, SFDR

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/11/03

The 9fin content and analytics team wrap up the week's activity and senior legal analyst Alice Holian discusses dangerous covenant pitfalls with regard to Envision. ESG analyst Sammy Cole talks about new developments in SFDR and credit analyst Josh Latham and loans reporter Laura Thompson discuss European high-yield's upcoming maturity wall.

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18:59

US Edition — Marisa Sotomayor, King & Spalding

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/10/27

Moving or storage? Fix and flip or buy and hold? These days, investment banks are under increasing pressure to compete with private credit firms — that's why many of them have set up their own direct lending groups. Marisa Sotomayor sits down with Will Caiger-Smith to explain how these businesses work.

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28:16

CLO market, subordination, Verisure

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/10/20

The 9fin content and analytics team wraps up the week's activity and co-head of European HY research Brian Dearing discusses subordination with regard to the recent Brightspeed and Carnival deals. ESG analyst Oliver Wise makes his debut on the pod to discuss Verisure's ESG issues and loans reporter Kat Hidalgo and US editor Will Caiger-Smith discuss the health of the CLO market in the light of Japanese AAA investor Norinchukin pulling out of CVC's latest CLO.

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13:07

US Edition — ESG's identity crisis

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/10/13

Last month, a group of climate protestors stormed a panel at a US private equity conference and lambasted ESG. A few weeks earlier, Texas and Florida had blacklisted ESG investment firms or banned the use of the practice. How did Republican politicians and left-wing activists end up united in their criticism of ESG?

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21:33

Dwindling pipeline, MFN, Graanul Invest

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/10/06

The 9fin content and analytics team wraps up the week's activity and co-head of European loans research Jainisha Amin explains MFN clauses. Loans reporter Kat Hidalgo and Michal Skypala talk the steadily drying leveraged loans pipeline and ESG analyst Dan Power talks about issues on Graanul Invest and the biomass industry.

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17:59

US Edition — The new playbook for LBOs

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/29

For LBO underwriters, the good old days are well and truly over. The Citrix syndication, which officially closed last week, showed how banks are pulling out all the stops to offload risk while minimizing losses — and this new playbook involves some potentially awkward and painful consequences. Will Caiger-Smith sits down with Steven Hunter, 9fin's CEO, to map out this brave new world.

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14:25

IPEM Wrap Up - PE special

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/22

In this special episode the Cloud9fin team discusses their experience of the IPEM conference in Cannes, speaks to delegates and gives you a special look into two panel discussions from the event.

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37:14

US Edition — Matt Cole, Strive Asset Management

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/15

How do you go from working from one of the world's biggest advocates for ESG investing to joining a firm that thinks ESG is a scam? Our US editor Will Caiger-Smith talks to Matt Cole, a former CalPERS portfolio manager who recently moved to Strive Asset Management — the "anti-woke" investment firm that wants to compete with the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard.

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11:21

Bonus episode: Citrix bond docs

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/14

Special bonus episode of Cloud 9fin, the leveraged finance podcast. Co-head of European HY covenant research Caitlin Carey discusses bond docs on the Citrix debt financing.

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24:19

Q2 earnings, mortgage regulation, Ford

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/08

The 9fin content and analytics team wraps up the week's activity. Speakers from the Investors Conference on UK Mortgage Finance go into detail on mortgage regulation, impacting levfin issuers like Miller Homes and Keepmoat. ESG analyst Sammy Cole breaks down Ford's new green bond and loans reporters Kat Hidalgo and Michal Skypala talk trends in Q2 earnings. 0:00 - Intro0:48 - Levfin Wrap1:59 - Mortgage regulation panel6:24 - Please raise responsibly: Ford green bond12:16 - Deep discussion:

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26:19

US Edition — Jeremy Burton, PineBridge Investments

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/09/01

Labor Day beckons, which means it's nearly the end of summer — and it's been a weird one. As we try to make sense of yet another strange post-Covid season for credit markets, our US editor Will Caiger-Smith sits down with Jeremy Burton of PineBridge Investments to discuss the Fed, the LBO market and second quarter earnings.

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26:14

PDA, redemption mechanics trends

Cloud 9fin ·

2022/08/25

The 9fin content and analytics team wraps up the week's activity, co-head of European HY research Brian Dearing and credit analyst Nathan Mitchell discuss trends in redemption mechanics and distressed analyst Emmet McNally tells loans reporter Kat Hidalgo all about the issues facing domestic appliances manufacturer PDA.0:00 - Intro1:03 - Levfin Wrap1:38 - Covenant close-up: Redemption mechanics trends11:47 - Deep discussion: PDA

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