Reuters
Lenders are starting to ask for extra protection in junk-rated corporate loans to damp down on a growing practice among some stressed companies to engage in a creative financing technique that allowed them to raise new money, said a Moody’s report on Thursday. Over the past year, many junk-rated companies like At Home Group and Trinseo have engaged in liability-management transactions, called "double dip," to raise new liquidity to pay back maturing debt or in some cases to remain solvent, said Moody's. Under a double-dip, debt is issued by a financing subsidiary, with guarantees from the parent and other subsidiaries.