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Tightening bank standards threaten credit cycle
An impending credit cycle bust is being signaled by tightening bank lending standards and yield curve distortions.
The argument
The speakers argued that Fed rate hikes distort the yield curve, forcing financial institutions to reach for yield in riskier assets (like private credit and CLOs) while simultaneously tightening standard lending criteria. This behavior, coupled with weak borrowing demand, threatens to trigger a credit contraction.
The thesis, stress-tested
✓ What validates it
- ✓Further tightening in the upcoming SLOOS (Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey) reports
- ✓An increase in corporate defaults or restructuring in the private credit space
▸ Risks discussed
- ▸Hyperscalers and large corporations may resort to mass layoffs or dilutive share issuance if credit access is cut off
- ▸European banking system data already shows unexpected tightening, indicating a global trend
Hear it yourself
"Well a lot of the subprime mortgages came from the Fed rate hikes in the middle 2000s The reason why is as Steve was saying if you a financial market participant and you borrowing in the short end of the yield curve and lending out long end of the yield curve the Fed hikes short interest rates because policy reasons non reasons What…"
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