syndicated loan market

Lee is widely credited as the architect of the modern-day syndicated loan market.

"Even big businesses typically prefer to go through the syndicated loan market than the bond market.

As the credit markets recovered after all but shutting down in 2008-09, cov-lite loans returned to the syndicated loan market.

"I don't think the banks' losses have peaked in the syndicated loan market," Ms. Appelbaum said.

The syndicated loan market is twice as big as the high yield bond market because loans are a more efficient way of getting money to business."

The syndicated loan market is the dominant way for corporations in the U.S. and Europe to tap banks and other institutional financial capital providers for loans.

The European leveraged syndicated loan market almost exclusively consists of underwritten deals, whereas the U.S. market contains mostly best-efforts.

In July 2008 Markit acquired JPMorgan Chase's FCS Corporation, a provider of syndicated loan market portfolio and risk management software and services, including the Wall Street Office family of products.

Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market; since then, unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders.