Blackstone goes on coffee run as it picks up control equity in five European CLOs
Blackstone Credit appears to have bought the CLO equity notes of five European CLOs in a transaction dubbed ‘Project Coffee’

CLO pipeline: US market on track for June boom
CLO issuance is set to boom in the coming weeks with the pipeline ballooning as the market looks ahead to June

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

US CLO spreads tighten sharply as Blackstone prints record fifth new issue of 2021
Blackstone Credit became the first CLO manager to issue five new US CLOs this year on Monday, securing the lowest funding costs in over a month in the process

Global CLO pricing lab: investors get over fatigue and embrace reset roll over
The demand for CLOs is showing no signs of slowing down after the market had experienced some fatigue at the end of the first quarter and into the second. In the last two weeks, there have been 47 CLO transactions across all forms of pricing in the three markets; led by 18 US CLO new issues

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

Record-breaking Apollo and Blackstone European CLOs make first distributions
Two 2020 CLOs managed by Blackstone Credit and Redding Ridge (Apollo) that set equity cover records in the secondary CLO market earlier this year have made their first payments

Blackstone Euro CLO seniors come at wide end of guidance but mezz beats expectations
GreensLedge and Natwest Markets have made their comeback to European CLO arranging

Blackstone scores tight debt pricing with fourth new US CLO of 2021
Blackstone Credit became the third CLO manager to print a fourth US new issue of 2021 on Monday, teaming up with Citi on its latest transaction named Rockland Park CLO

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress 

Blackstone resets one of market's final pre-covid CLOs
Blackstone Credit has teamed up with Citi to reset its 2020 vintage CLO named Harriman Park

Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill

Blackstone stands tall with tightest US CLO print of the month
Blackstone Credit scored the tightest new issue CLO print of the month on Friday after issuing its triple As at just 106 basis points over Libor

GreensLedge and NatWest prep Euro CLO arranging comeback with Blackstone reset
GreensLedge and NatWest Markets are making a comeback to European CLO arranging after a roughly 17-month hiatus

CLO pipeline: expensive 2019 CLOs in vogue with 32bp savings potential
The CLO pipeline is dominated by refinancings and resets, with new issuance taking a backseat

Four managers win lucrative $700 million credit mandate
A $39 billion pension has selected four managers for an opportunistic credit mandate and identified a further four ‘bench’ managers 

Blackstone reaches €2 billion European CLO volume with 2016 deal reset
Blackstone has reset a 2016 vintage European deal, Elm Park CLO, taking the manager's year-to-date volume in Europe to almost €2 billion

Blackstone and Invesco hold CLO triple A levels at 100bp
Invesco and Blackstone Credit each issued new CLOs in recent days with first pay notes locked in at 100 basis points over Libor

Blackstone and Hayfin get Euro CLO new issues rolling as single Bs diverge
Blackstone paired with BNP Paribas for Carysfort Park, while Hayfin followed the yellow (or rather gold) brick road to pair with Goldman Sachs on Hayfin Emerald CLO VI

CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline

Blackstone cuts spreads on post-reinvestment mid market CLO
Blackstone Credit has refinanced four tranches of a 2019 middle market CLO just over four months after the deal left reinvestment