North American and European credit defaults to fall next year – S&P Global
Global credit default rates will remain contained next year with North American defaults falling to around 4% 

CLO issuance projected to hit new records in 2026 – KBRA
The ratings agency projects USD 220bn in issuance across US BSL CLOs and private credit CLOs as well as five to six European private credit CLOs next year

Switzerland's LGT prices second CLO
Barclays was the sole arranger on the EUR 406m deal, which LGT said attracted orders from both existing and new investors

Park Square appoints its first CLO portfolio manager in Europe as it prepares to enter the market
The private credit firm is among a growing cohort of managers eyeing the European CLO market

Carlyle, Barings market new European CLOs
The two managers are marketing new European CLOs with similar sizings and spreads – but Carlyle’s deal is set to print as a standard-duration five-year CLO, while Barings is offering a short-duration three-year reinvestment period

Five Arrows and Onex print 2023-vintage Euro resets
The two-year-old deals issued via Jefferies

CLO fundamentals expected to weaken through 2026 – Deutsche Bank
CLO credit fundamentals are expected to weaken through next year due to lower loan prices and increased ratings downgrades, creating a bifurcated market, according to Deutsche Bank’s 2026 European CLO outlook

CVC launches dedicated private credit secondaries platform
The alternative asset manager tapped Henri Lusa, a former managing director at Partners Group, to lead the new effort

CLO investor Pearl Diver targets USD 1.5bn for SRT interval fund
The global structured credit manager will use the new institutional, open-ended vehicle to invest in first-loss or mezzanine tranches of significant risk transfer deals

Dealmaking optimism appears in European credit – CVC
The alternative asset manager increased its European credit exposure during the third quarter after seeing a spread pickup

AXA IM resets European CLO with 200m equity upsizing
The reset of the decade-old Adagio IV is the third repricing of the CLO and its first since 2021

European direct lending poised for record year despite 3Q M&A slowdown
Direct lending volumes in Europe in 3Q25 amounted to EUR 27.4bn across 310 transactions, according to the Debtwire European Direct Lender Rankings

New European Blackstone CLO prices at 127bps
The manager’s latest European deal, Stannaway Park CLO, showed some evidence of weakening demand in the lower mezz, with its double Bs issuing at 540bps over the base rate

ABF increases the lending toolkit – Apollo co-head of asset-backed finance Bret Leas
PODCAST: Bret Leas, co-head of asset-backed finance at Apollo Global Management, says asset-backed financing has contributed to a significant widening of the financing toolkit, on the latest edition of the Credit Exchange podcast with Lisa Lee

New York State Common Retirement Fund commits USD 200m to Oak Hill's CLO fund
The pension fund has committed the funds to OHA CLO Equity Fund III, which will target investments in North America and Europe

M&G prices its second CLO of 2025
Margay CLO IV was M&G’s fourth transaction since it returned to CLO issuance last year

Trinitas and Oaktree price European resets with AAAs at 130
Trinitas reset a 2024-vintage deal, while Oaktree repriced a nine-year-old transaction that was last reset in 2021 at historic tights

Blackstone raises USD 1.6bn for new high-yield ABF strategy
The alternative asset management giant is targeting USD 4bn for its new high yield, private-asset-based finance fund

Blackstone markets new Euro CLO with AAAs at 127bps, mezz outside recent tights
The triple As are just outside the new tight set last week by KKR's Avoca CLO XXXIV, but guidance for the mezz suggests some market widening

Silver Point prices debut Euro CLO
The deal, which priced via JPMorgan, is the first of what is expected to be a wave of debut issues from US CLO managers looking to expand across the pond into Europe

Corporate Europe kicks on with ECM, M&A plans as US market fears grow
Best year for European corporate equity capital markets and M&A since 2021, but storm clouds forming in US AI valuations and private credit

Euro AAAs tighten to mid-120s with new KKR issue
Avoca CLO XXXIV lowered the existing market tight by two bps, to Euribor plus 126bps

Monthly defaults driven by bankruptcies for first time in two years – S&P Global
Five of the eight defaults recorded in September resulted from bankruptcy filings, with three coming from the US, according to a new research report

Euro new issue AAAs match reset tight with latest Benefit Street Partners print
Jubilee 2025-XXXII priced as a EUR 514m issue via Citi, with its senior triple As clearing at Euribor plus 128bps

HPS and Permira price Euro resets
HPS and Permira both returned to the market Friday with European resets, with deals that had not been repriced since 2021