The latest Ishka loan datasheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
04/03/2025
Lessors have released several new aircraft portfolios available for sale in what has been a busy start to the year for aircraft traders. more
25/02/2025
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Ishka catches up with Keith Allman, Head of US ABS at Nomura to understand the bank's new expansion into ABS and aviation finance. more
12/02/2025
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Aviation Banks and Lenders
The latest Ishka loan datasheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
29/01/2025
After several requests, Ishka is extending the deadline for Deal of the Year Awards submissions to 21st of February 2025. The awards will be handed out at the Ishka Aviation Finance Festival in Dublin on the 20th of May. more
21/01/2025
in Lessors & Asset managers , ESG & Regulation , Other , Aviation Banks and Lenders
An unseasonally warm Dublin saw hundreds from the aviation finance industry gather early this week. Ishka summarises some of the common talking points. more
16/01/2025
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Investor Briefings , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Sustainable finance deals involving airlines, lessors, or aircraft as collateral experienced an annual decline last year, the first since 2018, Ishka SAVi data finds. more
15/01/2025
Bank financing costs for top-tier airlines and lessors contracted in the last three months of 2024, while warehouse costs have also tightened, according to research conducted by Ishka. more
09/01/2025
Ishka is now accepting submissions for its Deal of the Year Awards. The Ishka Deal of the Year Awards celebrate the best-closed aircraft financings of 2024. more
03/01/2025
Risk-adjusted margins for aviation alternative lenders contracted in the last three months of 2024 by rough 26 basis points on average versus Q3 2024, according to surveys of aviation financiers conducted by Ishka. more
02/01/2025
JOLCO levered returns have increased in the last four months, according to Ishka research, as Japanese investors are charging airlines more to fund USD assets thanks to continuing currency volatility between the US dollar and the Japanese yen. more
18/12/2024
Azorra has signed a R$1.1 billion ($182 million) financing agreement with Brazilian export credit agency BNDES to finance eight Embraer E2 jets to Azorra. more
16/12/2024
in Lessors & Asset managers , Airline trends & analysis , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Ishka is now accepting submissions for its Deal of the Year Awards. The Ishka Deal of the Year Awards celebrate the best-closed aircraft financings of 2024. more
06/12/2024
The latest Ishka loan datasheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
05/12/2024
Ishka's Transaction Update is a report series looking at essential trends, recent deal flow, and key announcements within aviation and aircraft leasing... more
04/12/2024
Japanese aviation equity investors show signs that they might be slowly warming to doing deals with Indian airlines. more
07/11/2024
Aviation alt lenders tell Ishka that average spreads have continued to compress over the last three quarters of 2024. more
06/11/2024
The latest Ishka loan datasheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
31/10/2024
Trading update: GA Telesis has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 23 used Airbus A320ceo and A321ceo aircraft from Spirit Airlines while Ishka examines Aircastle's latest portfolio to come to market. more
25/10/2024
Ishka's Transaction Update is a report series looking at essential trends, recent deal flow, and key announcements within aviation and aircraft leasing... more
21/10/2024
Ishka's Transaction Update is a report series looking at essential trends, recent deal flow, and key announcements within aviation and aircraft leasing... more
07/10/2024
The latest Ishka loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
03/10/2024
Ishka's Transaction Update is a report series looking at essential trends, recent deal flow, and key announcements within aviation and aircraft leasing... more
25/09/2024
in Lessors & Asset managers , Capital Markets , Aviation Banks and Lenders
The US Federal Reserve announced yesterday it is lowering the target range for the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to 4.75% to 5%- its first cut in interest rates in four years. more
19/09/2024
The latest Ishka loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
30/08/2024
Bank margins have contracted further in the last three months according to Ishka research, as lenders state that a limited number of new deals has compressed margins. more
29/08/2024
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
23/07/2024
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
20/06/2024
Lessor speaking at sidelines, and on stage, at the Ishka Aviation Finance Festival in Dublin last month confirmed that “pent-up demand” from lessors unable to acquire aircraft during the pandemic was translating into a premium for lessors seeking to sell aircraft today. more
11/06/2024
Deutsche Bank is due to announce the acquisition of a portfolio of secured aircraft loans from fellow German lender NordLB, according to multiple aviation finance sources. more
03/06/2024
Aviation lenders state that pricing has “collapsed” over the last two quarters as banks, eager to win financing mandates, lower risk-adjusted margins to win deals. more
23/05/2024
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
17/05/2024
Ishka examines a GIFT City financing for Indian carrier Vistara, and looks at the pricing for Global Jet Capital's seventh ABS, BJETS 2024-1. more
26/04/2024
More airlines, including top US carriers, are looking to lessors for finance leases as they seek to put key assets on their balance sheet, confide leasing sources. more
23/04/2024
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
03/04/2024
Sustainable finance deals in aviation involving airlines and lessors or with aircraft as a collateral grew once again in 2023, matching the approximate 60% annual growth rate of the preceding year. more
06/02/2024
in ESG & Regulation , Capital Markets , Aviation Banks and Lenders
KV Aviation winds down, AerCap hit by cyber attack, HCOB closes first deal more
26/01/2024
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Aviation Banks and Lenders
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
18/01/2024
After several requests for extensions, Ishka has pushed back the deadline for 2023 deal of the year submissions till the 26th of January. more
10/01/2024
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Other , Aviation Banks and Lenders
The deadline for submissions is the 15th of January. more
03/01/2024
in Lessors & Asset managers , Airline trends & analysis , Capital Markets , Aviation Banks and Lenders
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
20/12/2023
Aviation alternative lender Ashland Place Finance (Ashland) has priced a debut $324.3 million aircraft loan ABS, Ashland 2023-1 which was oversubscribed. more
12/12/2023
Aviation alternative lender Ashland Place Finance (Ashland) is currently in the market with a debut $324.3 million aircraft loan ABS, Ashland 2023-1. more
11/12/2023
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Ishka is now accepting submissions for its Deal of the Year Awards. The Ishka Deal of the Year Awards celebrate the best-closed aircraft financings of 2023. more
08/12/2023
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Capital Markets , Aviation Banks and Lenders
Ishka examines the typical incentive or penalty in aviation sustainable finance transactions, favoured aircraft types, and most active banks. more
12/09/2023
Riyadh-based aircraft lessor AviLease is set to buy the leasing arm of Standard Chartered in a $3.6 billion deal. more
29/08/2023
in Aircraft values, Lease Rates & Returns , Lessors & Asset managers , Aviation Banks and Lenders
US cargo carrier Western Global Airlines (Western Global) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week – a casualty of the softening cargo market, and the impact of the sudden 2022 Chinese Covid lockdown on export volumes. more
15/08/2023