In the latest symptom of Europe's financial turmoil, the region's riskier companies are bypassing banks and investors at home and turning to the U.S. for loans.

European companies borrowed some €14.4 billion (about $18 billion at current rates) in the U.S. leveraged-loan market this year through Friday, more than double the €6.7 billion for all of 2011, according to data from S&P Capital IQ LCD. That is the highest amount since at least 2007, the height of the last boom in leveraged lending, when full-year loan volume was €12.2 billion, according to S&P.

The leveraged-loan market is used by companies with high-yield or noninvestment-grade credit ratings, making it particularly sensitive to Europe's debt crisis, now in its third year.

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Citigroup Said to Raise $355 Million CLO for Aegon USA

Citigroup Inc. (C) (C) raised a $355.4 million collateralized loan obligation for Aegon USA Investment Management LLC, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.

The CLO, Cedar Funding Ltd., includes a $227.5 million slice rated AAA that pays a rate of 135 basis points more than the London interbank offered rate, said the people, who declined to be identified because the terms are private. The fund was increased in size from a target of $300 million, the people said.

There have been $9.9 billion of CLOs backed by widely syndicated loans raised this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. For the same time period last year, $1.6 billion of such funds were raised, according to the data.

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MSR Resorts, Madoff, Innkeepers Trust, Solyndra: Bankruptcy

(This report contains items about companies both in bankruptcy and not in bankruptcy. Adds Specialty Products and November 2005 in Updates and JK Harris in New Filings.)

Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The five resorts foreclosed in January by Paulson & Co. and Winthrop Realty Trust reached agreement with a mezzanine lender affiliated with MetLife Inc. that would permit the Chapter 11 reorganization to continue into September 2012.

Last month the resorts reached an interim agreement with Government of Singapore Investment Corp., the holder of $360 million in mezzanine debt. The Singapore investment fund had been demanding a quick conclusion to the Chapter 11 process begun early this year. The resorts wanted a lengthy reorganization to restructure the business, not a short Chapter 11 case simply adjust the balance sheet.

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