Powell Downplays Financial Stability Risks of Corporate Debt
While corporate debt is at near-record levels and recent growth has been concentrated in riskier segments, "business debt does not ...
Tag: Leveraged lending
Leveraged Lending Is Rising, But Bank Exposure Is Limited
The rapid growth is attributable largely to nonbanks. Should this group of loans start underperforming, the risk to the banking ...
Quarles Downplays Leveraged Lending Risks to Banks
In the wake of the Federal Reserve’s biennial financial stability report released yesterday, which flagged leveraged loans as a risk ...
Fed Flags Potential Vulnerabilities from High Business Debt, Leveraged Lending
Credit standards for leveraged loans continued to deteriorate in recent months, with the share of newly issued large loans to ...
Nichols Outlines 2019 Policy Goals on Bloomberg
In a live interview on Bloomberg today, ABA President and CEO Rob Nichols outlined three key policy priorities that ABA ...
OFR Flags Market Risk, Leveraged Lending in Annual Report
Noting that economic indicators are exceptionally positive, the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research flagged market risk, credit risk and cybersecurity ...
Fed Watching Leveraged Loan Growth for Systemic Risk
The Federal Reserve is watching growth in the leveraged loan sector with an eye to its systemic implications, Federal Reserve ...
Fed Sounds Alarm on Looser Leveraged Loan Terms
A Federal Reserve official today sounded a warning about “material loosening” of terms, as well as insufficient risk management, in ...
Deputy AG Cautions on Using Regulatory Guidance as Policy
In a speech to a banking industry conference today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein cautioned regulatory agency heads from substituting ...
