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Subprime Time — What does music royalty ABS look like today?

Music royalty securitization sits within asset-backed finance, a corner of private credit that allocators increasingly encounter, and the episode frames AI as a question mark over how catalog cash flows are valued. It is a short primer on how one niche ABS market is described by the reporters covering it.

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Summary

By the private credit desk

This is the pilot episode of Subprime Time, a Cloud 9fin podcast on asset-backed finance, hosted by deputy editor Sasha Padbidri with ABF reporter Harrison Connery. The episode covers the revival of music royalty asset-backed securities, tracing the market from the "Bowie bonds" era to the present, and discusses what generative AI could mean for the value of legacy catalogs. Connery also shares his reporting on which music catalogs investment firms are currently buying, and the origin story of Kygo's remix of Whitney Houston's "Higher Love".

The episode traces music royalty securitization from Bowie bonds to the current market.
It examines how generative AI could affect the value of legacy music catalogs.
Connery shares reporting on which music catalogs investment firms are buying.
The episode also covers the origin story behind Kygo's remix of Whitney Houston's "Higher Love".

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