Carlyle and Cross Ocean price second Euro CLOs for the year
The close of the week also saw Voya price its latest new European CLO, valued at just under EUR 310m

Brigade and HPS print Euro CLOs at 124bp market benchmark
Capital Four and Silver Point have also also priced new standard-duration deals as the issuance market gets back into its stride after the August break

KKR looks to scale multi-asset credit solutions as credit AUM grows
KKR’s credit AUM has grown by 50% since 2021, the firm revealed in a presentation by Christopher Sheldon, the firm’s global co-head of credit and markets

Euro CLO market closes out week with new issues from PGIM and Royal London
Royal London AM paired with Morgan Stanley to price its third CLO, while PGIM contracted Jefferies to arrange Dryden 134 Euro CLO

CVC hires TPG's Sisitsky as future co-CEO as Rob Lucas plans to step back
CVC’s CEO Rob Lucas will step back from his role, to be replaced with former TPG president Todd Sisitsky and current CVC President Peter Rutland as co-CEOs, according to a company announcement

European CLO resets issue from CVC and Carlyle
European CLO heavyweights CVC and Carlyle have priced reset transactions, with both deals pricing their triple A paper at 127bps over Euribor

Matheson hires Blackstone lawyer to structured finance team
Law firm Matheson has hired a former Blackstone lawyer to its growing structured finance team

Kartesia set to price first CLO within weeks
Kartesia is preparing to price its debut CLO within weeks, a source familiar has told Creditflux, with the European private debt specialist and CLO equity investor currently undertaking an investor roadshow

Bids due today on loan BWIC totalling around EUR 56m
A bid-wanted-in-competition (BWIC) portfolio totalling roughly EUR 55.81m of loans was circulating the market, according to two sources familiar with the matter

European CLO issuance poised to resume after holiday break
Capital Four, PGIM and Silver Point are among those set to price new deals over the next few weeks, while Fair Oaks is currently marketing a second reset of its inaugural, 2019-vintage, CLO

Blackstone prices sole new Euro CLO for the week
Willsbrook Park CLO issued as a EUR 454.2m transaction with its top-of-stack paper clearing at the current market tight of Euribor plus 124bps

Banks, managers add staff for private credit syndication
Banks see private credit syndication as a way to reclaim fees as more borrowers tap both private credit and broadly syndicated loan markets, Mission Staffing managing director Eric Vaheb told Creditflux

North American private credit fundraising tumbles, ceding ground to global strategies—S&P Global
While fundraising boomed for European and multi-region private credit strategies, private credit focused on North America dropped 13% year-over-year

CLO managers invest in distressed experts in expectation of higher LME environment
EXCLUSIVE: Carlyle and BlackRock are among the CLO managers who have invested in distressed and special credits teams ahead of an expected rise in defaults and LME activity 

Euro CLOs maintain issuance through holidays as HPS and Macquarie price new deals
HPS' Aqueduct European CLO 18 printed as an upsized EUR 505.4m transaction through Jefferies, while Macquarie Asset Management's recently-completed acquisition of Spire Partners made Aurim CLO XVI the manager's first CLO pricing in Europe

Foreign currency movements erase credit net returns at CPP Investments
Net returns across private and public credit fell to 3.7% in fiscal 2026 from 14.4% in 2025, the Canadian institutional investor reported

Orrick adds another partner to its CLO practice in New York
Former DLA Piper special counsel Steve Lozner has joined Orrick’s structured finance team as a partner in New York with a focus on CLOs 

More amend-and-extend transactions to come into the market in H2 — Carlyle
EXCLUSIVE: Amend-and-extend transactions are expected to increase over the coming months, as managers get ahead of the 2028 maturity wall

Fortress issues third CLO in Europe
Fortress Credit Europe BSL 2026-3 follows singular Euro prints from the manager in 2024 and 2025 and was arranged by Citi

More manager dispersion expected for second half of 2026
Multiple market sources have predicted that manager dispersion will characterise the second half of 2026, amid ongoing volatility

KKR and Sculptor reset seasoned European CLOs
KKR's 2021-vintage Avoca CLO XXI priced through Citi as a EUR 397.6m transaction, while Sculptor European CLO VI, a 2019-vintage issue, was arranged through JPMorgan

Influx of new European CLO managers could pressure arb further—Carlyle
EXCLUSIVE: Carlyle’s new European head of liquid credit has warned that an expected influx of new European managers could further pressure arbitrage economics

Secondaries emerge as preferred solution to liquidity and deployment pressures – Private Credit Comment
With a subdued M&A market stymying sponsors’ exit opportunities, and confronted with a more challenging backdrop for fundraising, some direct lenders in Europe are eagerly exploring private credit secondaries as a new avenue that can bolster liquidity for the asset class

New Euro CLOs issue from Polus and Nassau
Polus and Nassau Global Credit have issued their latest new European CLOs through Deutsche Bank and Jefferies respectively, with the conventionally-structured transactions weighing in with deal values of just over USD 406m each

Primary market set to break for summer as new money deals line up for post-summer launch – Europe Loan Digest
At least EUR 19bn of new money deals in the pipeline; Catalent and Groupe Premium close syndication, while Huws Gray, Virgin Media O2 and Altadia were in focus