Leveraged Credit Research

The credit market, made searchable and traceable.

ZeroPay tracks high-yield spreads and yields, scores refinancing risk across leveraged issuers, maps the maturity wall, and links credit to equity volatility and rates. Every number traces back to a named FRED series or the issuer capital-structure master, so nothing is a black box.

Market snapshot
01 — Spreads & Yields

US High Yield option-adjusted spread over the last three years, with the quality curve from investment grade down to CCC. The index is tight, but the spread between the riskiest and safest junk is doing the work.

US High Yield OAS, 3-year history
ICE BofA · BAMLH0A0HYM2 · basis points · monthly
HY OAS (bps) 3-yr average
Index context
vs trailing 3-year distribution
Quality curve, OAS by rating
IG · BB · B · CCC · current, basis points
CCC vs BB decompression
the gap between the riskiest and safest junk
02 — Issuer Screen

The full leveraged universe with a composite refinancing-risk score. Search by name or ticker, filter by risk band or sector, sort any column, and open any row for the capital structure, maturity ladder and score breakdown.

Issuer Rating Net Lev Near-Term Refi Gap Liq Cover Refi Score Band
03 — Refinancing Wall

Aggregate maturities across the covered issuers, year by year. The wall is front-loaded into 2027–2029, the window where today's tight spreads matter most, because that is when this debt reprices at whatever the market is then.

Maturity wall, covered universe
sum of issuer maturities · USD millions
Sector roll-up
average refi score by sector
04 — Cross-Asset

Change-on-change correlations across spreads, equity volatility and rates, with the sensitivity of high-yield spreads to each factor. Computed from the same monthly history shown above, where darker means a tighter relationship.

Correlation matrix
monthly changes · 3-year window
weaker stronger
HY spread sensitivity
beta of HY-OAS change on each factor

A one-point rise in the VIX has historically moved HY spreads several basis points wider over this window. The CCC tail and the broad index move almost in lockstep; rates are a looser link.

05 — Method & Sources
Market data, FRED series
St. Louis Fed · ICE BofA indices · quoted percent, shown bps
    Refi score, how it is built
    composite, 0–100, higher = more refinancing risk

    Each issuer is scored on four weighted inputs: net leverage (30%), near-term maturity share due 2026–2028 (30%), the refi cost gap between where its bucket prices today and its existing weighted coupon (25%), and liquidity cover of cash against the near-term wall (15%). Bucket spreads come from the live BB / B / CCC OAS series; capital-structure figures come from the issuer master. Bands: Elevated ≥ 65, Watch 45–64, Contained < 45.