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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
The latest Ishka’s loan sheet data sheet examines recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
10/08/2023
Aircraft lessor Voyager Aviation Holdings (VAH) filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week after signing a $743.5 million sale agreement for the bulk of its assets to rival leasing firm Azorra Aviation Holdings (Azorra). more
31/07/2023
Six new sustainable finance transactions involving airlines or aircraft – including one lessor – have been added to Ishka’s list since the last update in May, including four newly announced in June and July. more
27/07/2023
New Ishka research reveals that at least 14 global lenders have published 2030 emissions intensity reduction targets for aviation lending, and a further 12 are expected to announce aviation targets soon. more
14/07/2023
A new survey conducted by Ishka examines risk-adjusted spreads on bilateral secured aircraft loans agreed by aviation alternative lenders in the last six months. more
03/07/2023
At least seven sustainable finance transactions involving aircraft and airlines have been announced so far in 2023. Recent issuers include Japan Airlines, HK Express, Allegiant, KLM, and Air France. more
24/05/2023
Financiers say risk-adjusted margins for secured debt for aircraft lessors have risen since the start of the year as banks increasingly pass on funding costs to aviation borrowers. more
11/05/2023
Ishka presents the full list of its 2022 Deal of the Year Award winners. Ishka will be celebrating with the winners at 5.30pm at an informal drink reception at the sixth annual Ishka Aviation Finance Festival on the 23rd of May in Dublin at the Conrad Hotel. more
26/04/2023
The second of a new regular data sheet series examining recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
18/04/2023
Aircraft asset manager Stratos announced on 6th March it has acquired London-headquartered rival leasing platform Magi. Meanwhile, financiers and lawyers prepare for a busy April and May as delayed aircraft trades look set to close. more
06/03/2023
Ishka speaks with Armin Rothauser, partner for asset-backed direct lending at Castlelake, about the pressures facing lenders and why the asset manager has launched Itasca Re to reinsure aircraft non-payment insurance (ANPI) for secured aircraft loans. more
15/02/2023
This is a new regular data sheet series examining recent loans for commercial aircraft lessors and airlines, and the dynamics impacting aircraft lenders. more
09/02/2023
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