Low-Default Era of Past 20 Years Is Over
“For 40 years, virtually all fixed-rate borrowers across the economy could refi at a lower rate than they’d previously achieved,”
Deutsche bank analysts including Jim Reid and Steve Caprio wrote in the annual piece of research.
This changed after 2022, but the full impact could still be slow to be felt. So there is perhaps a ‘boiling frog’ analogy here where the market doesn’t notice it, until it does.
One factor that could exacerbate matters is the number of maturities in the next few years for lower-rated borrowers.
More than 20% of sub-BB borrowers are facing a maturity in the next three years
Bloomberg 10 June 2025
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