Octagon and RBC unite for first new CLO as partnership
Octagon Credit Investors has teamed up with Royal Bank of Canada to issue the pair's first ever new CLO as a partnership

LCM enters 2021 market with largest new CLO in over three years
LCM Asset Management issued its first new CLO of the year on Friday, teaming up with Natixis on the deal named LCM 32

Bain prices second CLO of 2021 just one day after closing first
Bain Capital Credit priced its second new issue CLO of 2021 on Friday, teaming up with Barclays on the $408.4 million deal named Bain Capital Credit CLO 2021-2

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

Citi and BofA to bring others on board with groundbreaking CLO/loan b-wic platform
Further details have emerged of Citi and Bank of America's multi-dealer trading platform for CLOs and loans, nicknamed project octopus, with officials at Citi telling Creditflux that they are accelerating talks with dealers to join the initiative

CLO pipeline: Deutsche Bank and Carlson hit comeback trail
The CLO market is preparing to be very active in the coming weeks, as the issuance slow-down is set to be in the rear view mirror

Anchorage adds double B tranche to 2019 bond-flex CLO
Anchorage Capital Group has added a double B liability tranche to a 2019 bond-heavy CLO following a refinancing

Invesco reduces CLO funding costs by 30 basis points in refi
Invesco has reduced the funding costs on Verde CLO, a 2019 transaction, by 29.58 basis points following a $457.2 million refi arranged by Goldman Sachs

Deutsche Bank commits to US CLOs with first 2021 deal set to price and plans to hire
Deutsche Bank is taking the loss of two officials from its US CLO business in its stride with a spokesperson for the bank telling Creditflux that it expects to price a deal next week and there are plans to hire this year

Natixis poaches New York-based CLO sales specialist from Deutsche Bank
Natixis has hired a CLO sales specialist in New York in a move which reunites two former Credit Suisse officials 

US CLO pricing lab: let’s refi like it’s 2017
The new issue US CLO market has been a slow burn over the last two weeks with only six deals being brought to the market amid wider triple A spreads. But the repricing market has been booming with today’s triple A levels still comparatively cheaper than previous vintages exiting their non-call periods

Marble Point splits triple Bs in first new issue CLO of 2021
Marble Point issued its first new CLO of the year on Friday, splitting its triple B notes into senior and junior tranches in the process

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

2012 and 2019 US CLOs get new lease of life as Barings and CVC hit reset
CVC Credit and Barings each tapped the CLO reset market on Friday, bringing total US reset volumes for April up to $4.15 billion

CLO pipeline: European new issues set to resume but managers seek pricing stability
The CLO pipeline is heavy with reworked deals - and anticipation - as 14 US CLO and one European CLO refinancings feature, along with nine US CLO and six European CLO resets

Loan pipeline builds to fuel US CLO production into Q2
US CLO new issuance, already on a high, is set to be spurred on by a healthy loan pipeline over the second quarter of 2021

Anchorage joins refi party with $421 million CLO
Anchorage Capital Group teamed up with Barclays on Wednesday to refinance the investment grade notes of its 2015 vintage deal named Anchorage Capital CLO 6

Texas pension allocates $50 million to CLO fund
The comes amid a flurry of allocations to CLO funds

Monroe issues first CLO since Bonaccord equity deal
Monroe Capital has priced its first new CLO in nine months, issuing a $455 million middle market transaction named Monroe Capital MML CLO XI

Brigade, GoldenTree and Sculptor reset $1.5 billion of CLOs
Brigade Capital Management, GoldenTree Loan Management and Sculptor Capital Management took to the CLO primary market on Friday to price a combined $1.53 billion in CLO resets

Carlyle first to four new US CLOs in 2021
Carlyle Group became the first CLO manager in 2021 to print four new issue CLOs in the US

2019 CLOs get refi treatment as CBAM and Eaton Vance print
CBAM and Eaton Vance are the latest CLO managers to refinance legacy transactions, taking to the primary market to cut the funding costs on their 2019 vintage deals named CBAM 2019-10 and Eaton Vance 2019-1

US pension eyes 2% CLO mezz and equity allocation
Investment consultant NEPC has advised a pension on evaluating CLO manager opportunities over the next few months

Sofr fix nears launch as CLOs face term rate void
Three months into 2021, grounds for optimism have grown little that a term rate will be found before the end of the year to replace Libor in loans, CLOs, CDS and other contracts. But hopes are rising that solutions such as credit spread adjustments could help mitigate performance uncertainty