Behind every piece of leveraged loan data is a story.
Produced by our own team of experienced journalists and analysts, our news coverage gives you the power to follow deals throughout their lifecycle.
Learn more about the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets with our reference resources
Industry Reference Resources
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Benchmarking
Access the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index and the S&P European Leveraged Loan Index to help compare your portfolio to the U.S. and European leveraged loan markets.
Surveillance
Receive comprehensive transactions data to help limit the number of steps in performing complex analysis and more easily screen for primary market deals.
Workflow Management
Integrate LCD data from feeds directly into your portfolio analytics tools. Your bespoke data packages are delivered right to you on a recurring basis so you can spend less time gathering data and more time identifying opportunities.
Turn information into business intelligence
Utilizing its exclusive private loan data, LCD helps buy-side and sell-side institutions:
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Compare loans in the syndications market
Find similar, recent transactions
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Identify possible trade opportunities
Screen for new deals as they come to the market
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Benchmark defaults and
return performanceMeasure how your competitors are performing against your portfolios
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Price and structure loans
Ensure your offerings clear the market
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Track important market
trendsNever miss a leveraged loan headline with our real-time news and in-depth research
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Create thorough reports
Download ready-made graphics for internal presentations or external marketing
MARKET RESEARCH & DATA SERVICE OF THE YEAR – 2019 & 2020
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LCD provides you with the market-making news and in-depth data you need for your segment.
Gain deeper insight into the leveraged loan market.
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Investment Management
Stay on top of the markets with real-time stories on key trends and new pricings, as well as daily and weekly recaps that provide you with the most important stories and commentary. Track deals through their whole lifecycle, including distressed debt and defaults. Benchmark your portfolio and those of your competitors against the S&P Leveraged Loan Indices and the US and European leveraged loan markets.
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Investment Banking
Whether you’re underwriting, pricing, structuring or syndicating a leveraged finance transaction, you need to ensure your deals are being executed efficiently. LCD’s unmatched database provides you with access to relevant comps and key deal statistics. Price and structure loans that clear the market. Compare loans currently in the syndications market by screening for new transactions as they come to the market, as well as all historical deals.
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Private Equity
With LCD, private equity professionals in the middle market receive the insight into market conditions needed to make informed decisions. Monitor credit risk, value portfolio companies, and execute investment strategies with relevant and timely research and analytics. Remain at the forefront of the financial markets with proprietary daily trend analysis, topical research, and reports that contextualize the current market against 20 years of historical data.
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Credit Risk
Monitor credit risk throughout the leveraged, high yield, distressed and corporate markets. Build reports on key criteria such as defaults, forward deals, maturity cliffs with our downloadable tables and charts. LCD’s unique access to private data ensures that the credit metrics you analyze are accurate, reliable, and insightful.
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Professional Services
In the leveraged finance space, market knowledge is crucial to winning business. LCD helps consultancies and law firms sharpen analyses and gain essential insights that can lead to an edge over the competition. With access to exclusive private loan data only available through LCD, you can track the news that makes the market, monitor current deal flow and screen for new deals, benchmark defaults and return performance of competitors, and download ready-made charts and tables for internal presentations and external marketing.
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