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The US auto lending industry is a finance juggernaut, but not all auto loans are made equal. In this episode of Cloud 9fin, Will Caiger-Smith sits down with reporter William Hoffman to dig into two of the high yield market's best known subprime auto lenders. What does the future have in store for these companies as consumer credit quality teeters on the brink of a downturn?

The 9fin team takes a look into Ceconomy and its oversold risks with Emmet McNally. Brian Dearing gives us a preview into a report on 2022 covenant trends and Tom Hudson discusses the pitfalls and obstacles his engineering team faced when building 9fin's ESG company database.

...but in the end, does it even really matter? Leveraged loan investors are railing against suboptimal credit-spread adjustments as borrowers transition their coupons away from Libor to SOFR. Some of them are even considering legal action. Do they have a case? Will Caiger-Smith and David Bell dive into the niche administrative issue that suddenly became a new battleground in leveraged credit.

Katharine Hidalgo sits down with Stuart Brinkworth to discuss private credit's latest trends. We discuss documentation, the impact of rising interest costs on businesses and what to expect from 2023. Brinkworth is Mayer Brown's head of Leveraged Finance in Europe and a partner in the Banking & Finance practice of the London office. 

It's our first US episode of 2023, and January is off to a flying start — at least for the high yield bond market. But what about loans, where bankers are still stuck with billions of hung bridge debt and private credit continues to eat up would-be syndicated supply? Will Caiger-Smith dials up deputy editor David Bell to decode the year so far.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.