Euro pipeline remains strong with Blackstone, Voya and ICG among those readying new issues
The pipeline into the August break remains strong as a number of managers look to take advantage of a still-benign issuance environment in advance of the summer break

Seven managers make up 90% of private credit fundraising – Morningstar
Over the last five years, Apollo alone accounted for 29% of all capital raised for private credit

Blackstone matches current AAA market tight for new US BSL deals
The half-billion-dollar Higley Park CLO priced the top of the stack at SOFR plus 128bps

Blackstone inks new private credit partnership with L&G
PRECIS: The partnership will see L&G gain access to IG private credit assets and the two firms create new public-private credit products.  

Blackstone reprices 2022-vintage US CLO
The USD 460m deal issued its senior triple A paper at SOFR plus 133bps

Blackstone resets 2021 Tallman Park CLO with lineball AAA spreads
The USD 370m deal saw a small reduction in the overall cost of funding

Barings moves toward second Euro private credit CLO as Blackstone, Apollo mull initial deals
EXCLUSIVE: The firm that cracked the European private credit CLO market open last year is working on its second such deal, while Blackstone and Apollo eye a market entry

Blackstone prices tightest Euro AAAs in more than 10 weeks
Ringsend Park CLO lowered the tariff-era benchmark to Euribor plus 131bps

Blackstone prices second reset of Harriman Park CLO
The deal was originally one of the last to issue in early March 2020 before the primary market shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Blackstone hires Laura Coady from Jefferies to head CLO business
The alternative asset manager has poached Jefferies's top CLO banker to become its global head of CLOs and head its European liquid credit strategies

Blackstone prints its second static deal for 2025
Stratus Funding CLO 2025-1 comes six weeks after the manager's prior non-reinvesting CLO so far this year

Blackstone hires ex-Lazard co-head of US financial institutions
Joseph Cassanelli will work on the team behind Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities strategy, which allows Blackstone to invest across asset classes, industries and geographies

Investors optimistic, bullish on European structured credit – BofA, King Street, Blackstone, Federated Hermes
PODCAST: Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee catches up with Bank of America's Alex Batchvarov, King Street's Young Choi, Blackstone's Alex Leonard and Federated Hermes' Andrew Lennox at the Global ABS conference in Barcelona

Blackstone resets former AIG CLO
The 2021-vintage deal reset with a slight reduction in the spreads for its triple As

Blackstone makes it a Euro trifecta for May with latest reset
The manager’s reworking of its Wilton Park CLO showcased the market’s trend toward tightening in the lower mezz

Kayne Anderson to debut private BDC to tap affluent investors
EXCLUSIVE: Private BDCs, pioneered by some of the largest direct lenders in the market, are becoming a common vehicle across the private credit manager industry

News in brief
Blackstone plays offense amid volatility

Blackstone prices second new European issue after market pause
Tully Park CLO priced with the tightest triple As for a Euro deal since dealmaking resumed at the end of April

Blackstone prices static BCRED CLO
The transaction is the first non-reinvesting deal to price under the BCRED shelf

Blackstone prices Euro market’s first reset in a month
The deal is the first European repricing since Sculptor European CLO IV was reset on 3 April

Private credit’s golden era never really ended – Blackstone’s Michael Zawadzki
On the Credit Exchange podcast, Lisa Lee speaks with the CIO of Blackstone Credit and Insurance about opportunities in volatile markets and the durability of private credit premiums

European CLO issuance begins to re-emerge as Blackstone and PGIM ready deals
Following two new-issue Euro deals on Wednesday, the pipeline is beginning to rebuild with more set to price next week

JPMorgan enters private credit big leagues with USD 4bn Boeing unit financing
EXCLUSIVE: The bank takes down the third-largest piece of the giant unitranche, lending shoulder-to-shoulder with direct-lending giants

CLO market turns to print-and-sprint deals as volatility spikes
EXCLUSIVE: Napier Park, TP Birch Grove, and BlackRock attempt print-and-sprint deals as the maths gets tougher; AGL and Blackstone pull off deals

Blackstone prices new US CLO using a print-and-sprint strategy
Hook Park CLO, arranged by Bank of America, follows AGL’s similar such deal earlier in April