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What is a Leveraged Loan?

A leveraged loan is a debt instrument undertaken by speculative-grade issuers, arranged by one or more investment banks and sold largely to institutional investors. See more in LCD's free Loan Primer and our quarterly almanac detailing market trends.

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With real-time news and proprietary analytics, LCD provides actionable news and technicals for the U.S. and European leveraged loan, high-yield bond, distressed, and investment-grade corporate markets. Plug into the leveraged finance space with some of our complimentary stories on originations, downgrades, and other market-level trends.

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Our Leveraged Loan Primer details the leveraged loan market mechanics and historical trends

What is a leveraged loan? Our free, digital Leveraged Loan Primer is the definitive guide to all leveraged loan markets and the industry at large. It covers everything from leveraged loan purposes, types of syndications, how a loan is priced, types of loan facilities, LBOs, M&A, loan derivatives, pricing terms/rates, and everything in between.

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Watch our free, on-demand webinars from Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD) and S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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  • LCD Leveraged Finance Market Review: Q4 2020

    After a wild 2020, the leveraged finance markets look to 2021. Debt issuance exploded in some corners of the market last year, and struggled in others, while defaults piled up. In our latest quarterly webinar, LCD will look at performance in 2020 and expectations for 2021, with special emphasis on the all-important CLO investor class, as well as a global economic outlook.

  • European Leveraged Finance Spotlight Series 2021

    Our annual Leveraged Finance Spotlight Series where we explore developments and risks facing the leveraged finance market across Europe. Each webinar will be focused on a specific country and dives deeper into COVID-19’s impact the market, the shift in dynamics caused by it and more insights.

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