Euro CLO triple As widen as market participants expect spreads to hit 100bp
European CLO triple As are leaking wider with CSAM and KKR resets the latest to demonstrate this - and some anticipate spreads could widen to 100bp, leading to a potential slowdown

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Euro CLO league tables: out with the old, in with the new as Jefferies leads way
Despite being a newcomer to the European CLO market this year, Jefferies has taken the market by storm and leads the way in overall European CLO issuance

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

Elfa adds to ESG fact sheet range in standardisation drive
The European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) will shortly publish sector-specific fact sheets for the transport and healthcare industries, sources say, bringing its total of ESG fact sheets to 12

Bain passes €1 billion mark for Euro CLO 2021 volume with new issue
-Bain Capital Credit has taken its 2021 European CLO volume to over €1 billion in pricing its latest new issue, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2021-1

BlackRock adds to Euro CLO deal size with reset
BlackRock has reset a 2017 vintage CLO, increasing the deal size slightly and offering a higher return on the lower part of the capital structure

Partners prints five-year European CLO with ESG-scored deal
Partners becomes second European CLO manager to breakthrough the five year reinvestment period

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

ICG resets 2017 Euro CLO with triple As at 89bp
Intermediate Capital Group has paired with Goldman Sachs to reset its 2017 European CLO, St Paul’s CLO VII, taking the manager’s 2021 volume over the €1 billion mark

Oaktree and Guggenheim price near identical European CLO resets
Oaktree and Guggenheim became the latest managers to reset European CLOs, adding a further €698.3 million to 2021 volume

Alcentra's global CLO fund closes at $484 million and over 50% deployed
Alcentra has closed its fourth global CLO fund, Alcentra Structured Credit Opportunities Fund IV, at $484 million

European CLO triple As leak wider as BlueBay resets 2020 deal
European CLO triple As have leaked out further with BlueBay's reset printing at 87bp, as sources indicate anchor triple A investors are sitting on the sidelines

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

CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
Five new issue US CLOs priced from last week’s pipeline, but five more have replaced them in this week's edition of our pipeline report

Napier Park slashes Euro CLO costs on post-covid deal reset
Napier Park has cut over 90 basis points off the cost of CLO financing on a post-covid deal, Henley CLO II

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

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

Sound Point resets inaugural European CLO with tight triple As
Sound Point Capital Management has reset its inaugural European CLO via Citi

NIBC takes ESG-scored European CLO tally to two with strong execution
NIBC has priced its latest ESG-branded European CLO, North Westerly VII

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

Capza closes €1.6 billion private debt fund 75% deployed
The European Investment Fund is among the investors in the fund, according to Debtwire Funds Data

CLO pipeline: and breathe... issuance splurge clears the backlog
Over 20 deals remain in the CLO pipeline, despite a glut of issuance last week in which 38 transactions priced, totalling $18.1 billion