U.S. Bank Attends 13th Annual AFME High Yield Dinner U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services continues its support for AFME by attending the 13th annual high yield black tie dinner held at the prestigious Savoy hotel on 29th January The U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services team attended the dinner with a number of guests from leading industry law firms. The well attended dinner attracted representatives from right across the industry including arrangers, lawyers, investors and advisors. Gary Simmons, Director of the High Yield division at AFME, who hosted the evening, was joined by key note speaker Steve Richards, chief political columnist for the Independent and British TV Presenter. Steve gave some insightful views on the various party strategies in the run up to the UK General Election as well as some enlightening political anecdotes! AFME, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, represents the leading global banks and capital market participants and is a key promoter of transparency and liquidity in the European high yield and leveraged loan markets. U.S Bank continues to support the association by highlighting and communicating a variety of insolvency reform issues particularly from a trustee perspective. Source: Dealogic The market in Europe continues to grow with new records being set in 2014 as high yield issuance increased for a sixth consecutive year. Total volume was over $157bn compared to $141.2bn in 2013. Annual volume was driven by Q2 activity of over $80bn (which included Numericable’s record USD 10.8bn deal), the highest quarterly volume on record accounting for 52% of 2014 volume. U.S. Bank offers a full range of corporate trust and agency services including indenture trustee, security trustee, paying agent, registrar, common depository and escrow agent. We can administer cross border deals with international security packages, both 144a and Reg-S transactions and with teams in London and New York can facilitate both Euroclear/ Clearstream and DTC physical certificated issuance fund settlement. For more information contact our team today or visit us online at: usbank.com/corporatetrust

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