CLO Valuations: Providing Clarity in Displaced Markets
Discussion Topics:
- Trends in CLO valuations
- Secondary markets recap & evolution of marks
- Loan price dispersion & pricing risk consistency
Speakers
Connor Buttner
Managing Director, Client Success
KANERAI
Connor Buttner, a Managing Director and Head of the Client Success at KANERAI, has more than a decade of experience working with clients to deliver financial technology solutions. At KANERAI, working with industry-leading buy-side and sell-side market participants in the structured credit market, Connor has helped enable clients with innovative custom solutions as well as implement KANERAI’s turn-key analytics platforms, including KANERAI’s suite of web-based and Excel-based interactive analytics, APIs, and portfolio optimization solutions. Prior to joining KANERAI, Connor was a credit product specialist at Moody’s, where he focused on corporate credit and quantitative default tools for financial institutions throughout North America.
Giuseppe Trimarchi
Managing Director, Enterprise Solutions
KANERAI
Giuseppe Trimarchi is a Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Solutions at KANERAI. As a seasoned professional with almost 20 years of banking and fintech experience, Giuseppe is known for driving brand growth, maximizing product and business expansion. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and member of the founding team at Athena Art Finance, a Carlyle portfolio company and leading provider of alternative asset based lending. Prior to his experience at Athena, Giuseppe held many leadership positions in the Enterprise Data Solution division at Bloomberg LP, most recently as the Global Head of Real Time Content. Giuseppe holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a M.S in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
David Divinagracia
BVAL Application Specialist
Bloomberg
David is a relationship manager in our Risk and Valuations team within Bloomberg's Enterprise Data division. He is responsible for buyside firm relationships primarily in the Northeast US. Prior to joining Bloomberg, David worked on the institutional fixed income sales desk at Cantor Fitzgerald for 11 years where he focused on Securitized Products sales.
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.