Sound Point holding CLO M&A talks which could catapult it to fifth-largest manager
Sound Point Capital Management is locked in talks with a large, global CLO manager over a deal that could take its CLO AUM north of $36 billion

Senior CLO trader tipped to join Standard Chartered as global securitised products trading head
Standard Chartered has hired a senior official to its lead its global securitised products trading

Euro CLO market re-opens as HPS breaks new issue duck with triple As at 205bp
HPS Investment Management has become the first European CLO issuer of the year, pricing Aqueduct European CLO 7-2022 and shaving off 10bp off triple A price guidance

Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. 

Alcentra adds to European CLO investment team with sell-side hire
A European CLO trader has switched to the buy side to join Alcentra

HPS targets tomorrow for Euro CLO with triple As guided around 215bp
Price guidance on HPS Euro CLO is revealed 

HPS pre-markets 81%-plus ramped European CLO
HPS Investment Partners is pre-marketing a new issue European CLO, which is understood to be over 80% ramped

Barclays shifts Euro CLO trading to ABS team with departure
A European CLO trader at Barclays, who took on more responsibility for trading following a keu figure departure, is understood to have parted ways with the bank late last year

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies wins at a canter as fellow newcomer Palmer Square wins in new issues
A year of turmoil in the CLO market inevitably led to European CLO issuance dropping in 2022 from its record 2021

Global 2022 CLO league tables
Global 2022 CLO league tables

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q4 2022
As 2022 draws to a close manager consolidation through mergers and acquisitions have been balanced out by new market entrants to leave roughly the same number of managers that entered the year, at least for now.

BofA fills Euro CLO trading head role
Bank of America has filled its European CLO secondary trading head role with an internal transfer after former head switched focus to US CLO trading

Bain promotes European CLO PM to partner
Bain Capital has promoted its head of European structured credit and liquid credit to partner

BofA Euro CLO trading head shifts focus to US
The head of European CLO trading at Bank of America is stepping away from the European CLO side of the business

Citi forms new securitised trading business
Citi has formed a new securitised products trading business, with sources saying the combined business is better aligned with how the bank’s clients are organised

Citi's global co-head of CLO trading joins Octaura
Citi's global co-head CLO, ABS, Trups and CDO trading has left the bank after 13 years to join electronic loan and CLO trading platform Octaura as its chief product officer

Milbank promotes two CLO specialists to partners
Law firm Milbank has promoted two CLO specialists to partners as part of a cohort of 17.

CVC plots further quasi-CLOs after landmark €400 million deal
CVC Credit closed a CLO-like’ vehicle backed by senior secured loans in December. Officials at the firm say they are in early stage discussions to launch similar vehicles after interest from equity investors"  

Experienced CLO investor parts ways with bank treasury desk
A senior triple A CLO investor has parted ways with a treasury desk ahead of a move to another financial institution  

Man GLG appoints head of European CLO and lev loan business
The hire follows six months after Creditflux reported Man GLG promoted Dan Robinson to global head of CLOs and leveraged loans

Milwaukee-based bank takes advantage of Credit Suisse turmoil
RW Baird is set to hire two Credit Suisse structured finance employees in London

Jefferies promotes CLO pair to managing directors
Jefferies has promoted the co heads of its European CLO primary team to managing directors

Permira closes sixth CLO junior debt and equity fund
Permira Credit has closed its sixth European CLO junior debt and equity fund,  Permira Sigma VI

CLO 2023 Outlook: CLOs look set to rise to the challenge of a tough 2023
CLO researchers had an (understandable) inability to accurately predict the staggering array of macro shocks that affected the CLO market this year. So it comes as a surprise that overall CLO issuance reached a lot closer to anticipated levels than many would have expected back in Q2

LDI funds prepare for return to CLOs and ABS early next year
Liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies that had to sell senior CLO tranches in droves could come back in for CLOs in the early part of 2023, sources say