Loan Market Association (LMA)’s Post

The growth of CRI and SRT markets continues at pace. We are seeing more and more issuers and more and more investor participation, even extending to SRT specific investment funds. Exciting times with the LMA looking to support our members and the market with best practises, education, and dispel myths. #risktransfer #securitisation #portfoliomanagement #creditriskinsurance

#SRT may be the loan market buzz word of the moment, but credit risk transfers in a variety of guises have long been used by banks for a variety of reasons, regulatory and otherwise. This seminar and drinks reception is intended to bring together senior stakeholders from the length of the loan life cycle to identify liquidity bottlenecks and discuss viable solutions to age-old problems. #creditrisktransfer #srt #cri #loanmarkets

Since launching last year, Andalusian Credit Partners has established itself as a value-added lender to sponsor-backed and non-sponsored borrowers in the core middle market with unique sector expertise, a disciplined approach to risk management, and a clean balance sheet. In a recent Q&A, Aaron Kless, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, discusses the firm’s investment strategy and differentiators in today’s private credit market.   “There is a huge white space opportunity for our investment strategy…In a higher rate environment where there is a plethora of interesting investment opportunities, not having legacy portfolio distractions frees us up to go and pick and choose the deals that we want to do on the terms that we want to do them,” says Kless.   Read the full Q&A below.   #PrivateCredit #PrivateDebt #DirectLending #MiddleMarket

Aaron Kless, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Andalusian Credit Partners, recently appeared on “Bloomberg Markets” with Sonali Basak and Alix Steel to discuss Andalusian’s differentiated strategy and focus on non-sponsored and sponsor-backed borrowers across the U.S. core middle market, the resilience of the sports, media and entertainment, and financial and specialty services sectors in today’s higher interest rate and inflationary environments, and the influx of opportunities we are seeing as commercial and regional banks continue to contract their lending activities.   “We really focus on businesses in the sports sector, media and entertainment, and financial and specialty services sectors. So you’ll see a common theme [among those sectors is] some exposure to consumers, but in ways we think are a little bit more insulated from recessionary or inflationary pressures,” said Kless.   Watch the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/g8XhRm2a    #PrivateCredit #PrivateDebt #MiddleMarket #DirectLending 

In an article posted by the AFR last week, market growth of Private Credit in Australia from 2015, was revealed to have an average compound annual growth rate of 23%, every year until 2023, culminating in the industry currently being worth $188B (AUD). Does the consistency surprise you? Do you think the industry can sustain this kind of growth? privateinvest.com.au #privateinvestinsights #nonbanklending #australianinvestmentmanager

Most corporate treasurers will be aware of the Loan Market Association (LMA) from being faced with LMA documentation on loan and Schuldschein transactions. However, not everyone is familiar with what the LMA does, its purpose, how they produce their forms of documentation and how they interact with borrowers. The German Association of Corporate Treasurers (formerly known as Verband Deutscher Treasurer e.V. ) spoke to Kam Hessling, Senior Director at the LMA to find out more. Read article: https://lnkd.in/e8eKABGZ #treasury #lma #loanmarket #eact

As the end of Q1 approaches, our CEO Scott McMunn shares in his latest monthly update how we are gaining momentum across many of the key areas of our 2024 strategy.   ✔ So far this year we’ve welcomed 35 new members to the LMA, including members from sectors that are previously less well represented, such as tech providers, institutional investors and asset allocators from across our many jurisdictions ✔ We’ve established a plan to address challenges in the loan settlement process, and will launch a new Operations newsletter and build toward the Operations Conference in June. Our loan operations initiatives will be led by Paul Taylor, who has recently joined us as a staff – welcome Paul! ✔ We’ve put together our events calendar for 2024, focusing on a smaller number of higher-impact events, including an event in May for younger lenders and bankers – watch this space ✔ On the regulatory front, our next immediate delivery will be on ESMA reporting standards, which is due in March, and we welcome any feedback from our members   Scott also shares highlights from conferences this month, including the APLMA Global Loan Market Summit in Hong Kong, the Africa Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Conference in Cape Town, and the LSTA /LMA Joint Conference in London. We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events throughout the year.   In the coming month, we will launch a new ESG quarterly, “Horizons”, which will offer thought-provoking commentary and expert perspectives on sustainable finance – an area that is at the forefront of the LMA’s work. Do follow our LinkedIn updates to be among the first ones to find out about the official launch!   #lma #loanmarkets 

Our CEO Cynthia E. Sachs and Head of Sales Christopher Fonte are coming to London! They’re looking forward to attending the first Loan Market Association (LMA) and LSTA joint event of 2024 as the syndicated loan industry gathers to discuss leveraged loan trends and the future state of the UK and European loan markets on March 6.    Learn more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/eFtKyc9F   #loanmarket #syndicatedloans #lsta #lma #leveragedfinance #financialinnovation #europeanloanmarket

vc trade is looking forward to the LMA Loan Markets Conference in London on the 17th September. We have many exciting developments to share with you all. If attending do pass by our stand to say hello for an update, if you can't make it then please do reach out to us directly. #LMA #LoanMarkets

Why attend Global Private Credit 2024? Speaker 🎙️ Richard M. Banks gives us his view: “As the global private credit market continues to boom, it is past time that the GCC had a truly world-class event focused entirely on this vital asset class. GCC investors need insight and nuance from the best managers and thinkers in the market if they are to navigate the next cycle successfully. That’s why I am genuinely honoured to be moderating a panel at the Global Private Credit event next month – the timing is perfect and the market will be super-receptive to the quality of what’s to be discussed – don’t miss it!” Richard Banks is moderating our Investor’s Panel: How can GCC allocators continue to succeed in investing in Private Credit? 💭 Join him and our roster of expert speakers and senior attendees this 5th June at Global Private Credit 2024. Visit the website: https://lnkd.in/dpvHfEfr Register here: https://lnkd.in/d7Kk__cf Save £500 when using code LKD500 #PrivateCredit #GFCMediaGroup #Investor #Allocators #GCC #Investment