Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A Debt Market’s Slow Recovery Is Burdened by New Regulation

 
Collateralized loan obligations may seem at first to be nothing but a throwback to private equity’s “golden era” of enormous leveraged buyouts.

Yet the market for this product, which has made a modest comeback since the financial crisis, is an important source of capital for many businesses. Now its revival is under threat, and that could have broader implications beyond deal makers.

A C.L.O. is typically a collection of large loans made by banks to corporations with higher amounts of leverage. The loans are bundled together into a securitization pool, and the pool is divided into multiple tranches. Interests in each tranche are then sold to institutional investors.

Read more: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/a-debt-markets-slow-recovery-is-burdened-by-new-regulation/?ref=business

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