Double Bs tighten as Regatta prices junior CLO debt at 730bp
Regatta Loan Management, the CLO management entity linked to Napier Park Global Capital, has joined the select number of US CLO issuers to price double-B rated debt at less than 800 basis points

HSBC notches up first US CLO arranging credit
HSBC has teamed up with Natixis as co-arranger on the latest new issue CLO from Cerberus Business Finance

Norinchukin's CLO portfolio decreases for first time in years
Japanese CLO heavyweight Norinchukin posted its financial statements yesterday, where it reported a 1.42% drop from its statements at the end of the second quarter

Marathon issues CLO with limitation on B3 loans
Marathon Asset Management’s new $405 million US CLO has a 25% cap on loans rated B3 and below, says a source close to the deal

CLO tranche investor leaves Carlyle after 12 years
The New York-based co-head of global structured credit has parted ways with Carlyle, sources say. The firm is understood to have appointed a replacement in London

Conservative approach pays off as Kayne Anderson issues tight CLO triple Bs
US loan managers that run conservative portfolios are being rewarded in the primary CLO market with tighter junior debt financing

European CLO round-up: new look turbos power up junior CLO tranches
Junior CLO debt investors are getting more defensive and this has resulted in the emergence of new-look CLO turbo tranches

European CLO spreads widen as Commerzbank prices first 2019 CLO
European CLO spreads widened sharply on Friday as Commerzbank issued a new CLO with triple As paying 101 basis points over Euribor

Audax goes for longer reinvestment period with second mid market CLO
Audax Private Debt yesterday priced its second CLO backed by loans to middle market companies, according to market sources

Barings matches November benchmark with new US CLO
Barings yesterday returned to the CLO primary market with the tightest triple A print on the month

Guggenheim prices its second mid market CLO
Guggenheim Partners yesterday partnered with Barclays to issue its second US CLO of 2019, and its first of the year backed by loans to middle market companies

Churchill splits double Bs for first mid market CLO in two years
Churchill Asset Management has priced its first middle market CLO of the year in a transaction which underlines how lower-rated CLO debt tranches are increasingly being carved up into senior and junior pieces

Mid market CLO league tables: springing back into life after September drought
After a September hiatus, three managers returned to mid market CLOs in October to bring issuance back on track as monthly volume exceeded $1 billion for the sixth time this year

Global CLO league tables at a glance - October 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - October 2019 YTD

US CLO league tables: Octagon retakes US lead, but CSAM still on top globally
Octagon Credit Investors priced Octagon 45 via Goldman Sachs to overtake CSAM by just $33.3 million in overall US issuance, but CSAM still leads the way in new US CLO and global CLO issuance

GSO completes 12th CLO transaction of 2019 as junior spreads edge wider
It has been, by the firm's own standards, a slow year for the largest CLO manager globally, but nevertheless GSO Capital Partners has completed 12 transactions in 2019

Wings of the structure fly in opposite directions as Alcentra prices European CLO
Alcentra has priced its latest new issue CLO in Europe, and its second issue of 2019 on the continent

CLO issuers split triple Bs as mezz demand shrinks
A sharp fall in US loan prices has meant that the value in CLO structures is shifting out of mezzanine tranches and into equity. There is a similar dynamic at play in the credit index tranche market, where sources say value has shifted out of mezz and into equity amid an increase in idiosyncratic credit risk.

Fidelity issues first three-year CLO since June
Fidelity has brought a CLO with a three-year reinvestment period, the first new issue deal with this shorter duration to come to the US market since June

European CLO manager hires MUFG for first 'fully compliant' ESG CLO
A CLO issuer is looking to take ESG compliance in European CLOs to another level by pitching its upcoming CLO as the “first fully ESG compliant CLO”, according to marketing materials seen by Creditflux

Cairn prices €419 million CLO with triple-As tight of market
Recent spread dispersion in the European CLO market is evidenced by Cairn Loan Investments’ pricing of a €418.73 million CLO in which the triple-A tranche came tight of the 10-day rolling average but the single-B piece was deeply discounted

Be-Spoke one week away from pricing breakthrough SME CLO
Be-spoke Capital has moved a step closer to pricing its SME loan securitisation, with price talk emerging for the forthcoming Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1

Single B spreads tighten dramatically as Invesco prices third euro CLO
Invesco yesterday brought its third CLO new issue to market via Barclays, according to market sources

Few CLOs charred by Murray bankruptcy
25 CLO managers hold  $389.6 million exposure to the debt of coal company Murray Energy Holdings, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of Ohio on Tuesday, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i   

CLO syndication head exits BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas' head of US CLO syndication has parted ways with the bank, according to market sources, ending an eight-year stay at the firm