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Introducing the Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index and Data Solutions

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The US leveraged loans market has nearly doubled in size over the last decade, and now stands at $1.6tn. Bloomberg offers a range of solutions for market participants, including a recently launched Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index, a comprehensive pricing solution (BVAL) covering 8K loans, a comprehensive data solution covering 74K loans, and a unique identifier called Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) for each loan.

Join us as we walk through the main products that make up our offering for leveraged loans. We will dive into details of how we price over 8,000 loans and how Bloomberg maintains high-quality reference data in an opaque market. Then we will provide an overview of our new US Leveraged Loan indices and the related tools available on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Agenda:
  • Indexing Our Expanded Offering
  • Loan Market Overview
  • BVAL pricing across 8K syndicated loans
  • Terms & conditions for 74K syndicated loans
  • Index Overview & Terminal Integration 

Speakers

Nick Gendron

Global Head of Fixed Income Index Product

Bloomberg

Based in New York, Nick manages the global fixed income index product team at Bloomberg. The main responsibilities of his team include: new product development and research, ETF pipeline and senior relationship management, consulting with clients on development of custom index products, marketing/support of the entire suite of fixed income indices, implementation of robust governance structure and process. Nick has been with the index business since 1992 at Lehman Brothers and subsequently at Barclays since 2008. In his years at Lehman Brothers he managed the U.S. index team from 1998 – 2005 and managed the global index business from 2005 – 2008. He also worked extensively marketing the portfolio management tools PC Product and POINT. Nick began his professional career at JP Morgan working from 1987-1992 in their systems development department. He holds an M.B.A. in finance from New York University and a B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Boston College.

Len Brous

Senior Credit Market Specialist

Bloomberg

Len Brous is a senior credit market specialist at Bloomberg, focusing on applications for the public, private, and structured credit markets. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2014, Len was a managing director in the Bank Loans investment platform at GE Capital, and prior to that held roles in institutional fixed income at Morgan Stanley, including capital markets, product management, structuring, and syndication of debt instruments, derivatives, and debt funds. He earned an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and BA from Yale University.

Brian Lane

Head of BVAL GSAC Product

Bloomberg

Brian Lane is Head of GSAC Product at Bloomberg with 25 years of experience helping fixed income participants with technology. Specializing in corporate bond analytics to help firms use data more effectively, Brian has had a variety of leadership roles. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Brian spent 10+ years working in fixed income startups. He served as founder and CEO of FixtHub, a fixed income and analytics software company. Previous to his work at FixtHub, he ran product management at Codestreet, which was purchased by Tradeweb in 2016. Brian also spent 10+ years in the corporate bond market as a trader.

Matthew Weitz

Fixed Income Product Manager

Bloomberg

Matthew Weitz is a Fixed Income Product Manager within Bloomberg Enterprise Data. Matt began this role in 2022 and is focused on developing innovative fixed income solutions for both front and back office clients across the buy-side and sell-side. For over a decade Matt has held various client-focused positions in account management and support at Bloomberg where he developed strong relationships and a deep understanding of fixed income client needs. He holds a B.S. in Finance from King's College and is working toward his Master's in Computer & Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jasvinder Singh

Senior Index Product Manager

Bloomberg

Jasvinder Singh is a senior product manager for Bloomberg's index business. In his current role, Jas focuses on the development of the Bloomberg Fixed Income Indices. In his prior role, Jas was the Global Head of Bloomberg Index Production. Jas attended the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur for Bachelor in Technology, and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta for his MBA.

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