Credit Markets

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in credit markets, which includes: 

Structured Credit 
J.P. Morgan’s Structured Credit team is the area with expertise in credit derivatives, structured products and collateralized debt obligations globally.  Structured credit products are used by clients to achieve many financial objectives, including yield enhancement, credit risk management, capital efficiency and benchmark outperformance.  

CDOs 
Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) are structured fixed income securities with cash flows linked to the performance of debt instruments.  Issuers of CDOs include commercial banks, insurance companies and money managers, who use the products to either gain regulatory capital relief and manage their credit exposure or lock in term funding and incremental fee income.  CDOs are an emerging asset class offering value to investors and are rated by the major rating agencies accordingly. 

Tax-Exempt Capital Markets  
J.P. Morgan has one of the industry’s leading Tax-Exempt Capital Markets franchises.  The team includes the following groups:

  • Municipal Banking, including public finance activity and credit origination for general governmental, transportation, energy, housing and corporate-backed client sectors.
  • National healthcare, higher education and cultural institutions
  • Municipal Bond Sales, trading, syndicate and research
  • Tax Exempt Derivatives
  • Infrastructure Finance

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Market Leadership
#1 Global Syndicated Loans 
#1 Global Debt
#1 Global Long-term Debt
#1 Global Investment Grade Corporate Bonds
#1 Global High Yield Debt 
#1 U.S. Loans
#1 U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bonds
#1 U.S. Long-term Debt  
#1 Latin America Emerging Markets Bonds
Source: Thomson Reuters, 3Q09 YTD

Awards

  • Credit Derivatives House of the Year (Risk, 2009)
  • Best Bank in Credit Default Swaps (Credit, 2009)
  • #1 Credit Derivatives overall (Risk Institutional Investor Survey, 2009)
  • #1 High Yield Research (Credit, 2009)
  • #2 Credit House overall (Credit, 2009)
  • #2 High Grade Research (Credit, 2009)
  • #2 All-America Fixed Income Research survey ( Institutional Investor, 2009)
 
 

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