Meredith Coffey

Executive Vice President, Research & Regulation at The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA)

Speaker

Meredith Coffey is Executive Vice President of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), where she runs Research Department, the CLO efforts and the LIBOR policy initiatives. She also co-chairs the LSTA’s regulatory team, which helps facilitate continued availability of credit and the efficiency of the loan market. In addition, Ms. Coffey heads efforts to analyze current and anticipated loan market developments, helping the LSTA build strategy and improve market efficiency, and providing commentary through weekly newsletters, periodic conferences and webcasts. Ms. Coffey and the analyst team also engage market participants, press and regulators on issues and developments in the global loan market. Ms. Coffey has published analysis on the syndicated loan market in numerous books and periodicals, presents frequently, and has testified several times before Congress on issues pertaining to the loan and CLO markets. In addition, Ms. Coffey is on the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) and co-chairs its Business Loans Working Group, which endeavors to smooth the transition from LIBOR to a replacement rate. Prior to joining the LSTA, Ms. Coffey was Senior Vice President and Director of Analysis focusing on the loan and adjacent markets for Thomson Reuters LPC, working in and running loan research for 15 years. Ms. Coffey has a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and a graduate degree in Economics from New York University.