NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases a report which outlines several hypothetical stress scenarios for sectors that KBRA believes to be at risk, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting impact on KBRA’s rated U.S. broadly syndicated loan (BSL) CLO transactions.
KBRA believes that loan issuers will face challenges in the months ahead, particularly in certain sectors, and recently published a paper highlighting U.S. BSL CLO exposure to these at-risk sectors.
In addition, KBRA continues to monitor high-level performance metrics for our rated CLO transactions and notes that additional credit degradation (particularly across sensitive sectors) will take time to manifest itself and appear in trustee reports. To that end, our review incorporates additional sensitivity analysis to test the resiliency of our rated transactions to varying degrees of credit deterioration within at-risk corporate sectors.
Click here to view the report.
Related Publications
- U.S. BSL CLOs’ At-Risk Sector Exposure Takes Shape
- KBRA Monitors Coronavirus (COVID-19) Credit Impact by Sector
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