KKR prices second deal in programmatic private credit CLO strategy
The transaction is the second in the manager’s series of private credit CLO issues under the KIMM (KKR Institutional Middle Market CLO) banner, following the pricing of KIMM CLO I in October 2024

US lev loans, CLO spreads move in opposite directions as market worries deepen over software loans
ANALYSIS: The unusual dynamic has been driven by worries about disruption from artificial intelligence, as investors fret about the potentially wide-ranging impacts across a range of sectors

New Euro CLOs price from Signal and Cross Ocean
Signal Harmonic CLO Vi was arranged by JPMorgan and takes the total AUM for Signal's CLO platform to EUR 2.7bn, while Cross Ocean Bosphorus CLO XII issued via Morgan Stanley

Benchmark US CLO AAAs narrow again with Oak Hill reissue
The market’s triple-A spread has now tightened 5bps since the end of last year

Global CLO law firm rankings – FY 2025
Milbank and Paul Hastings again top Creditflux’s global legal manager and arranger counsel rankings for 2025 – but the shifting legal landscape drove changes further down

GoldenTree US CLO reset sees AAAs tighten in to 115bps
GoldenTree’s triple-A spread has the market approaching the tights last seen 12 months ago, before growing supply and US tariff policies saw spreads widen significantly 

US CLO AAAs narrow as CIFC prints tightest deal since March
CIFC Funding 2026-I is the tightest standard-duration US BSL CLO to price since New York Life’s Flatiron 30 issued in March last year

Moody’s prepares to enter European private credit CLO rating space
EXCLUSIVE: Moody’s is in discussions about rating private credit CLOs in Europe for the first time, as the market continues to grow

BlackRock prices unusual single-tranche static CLO
The USD 399m deal, arranged by Morgan Stanley, was split almost evenly between a single triple A-rated loan tranche, and LP interests

European reset benchmark lowered to 123bps with CIFC pricing
The reset benchmark now matches the current tight for new European issues, with the 2020-vintage transaction reset via Morgan Stanley

Silver Point and OFS add to new US CLO issuance with inaugural 2026 prints
Bank of America was the arranger for Silver Point’s half-billion-dollar offering, while OFS paired with Goldman Sachs for its first new CLO in 10  months

Euro market kicks into high gear as end of week sees flurry of pricings
Friday was the busiest day thus far of 2026 for European CLO primary, with two new issues and two resets adding more than USD 1.7bn in fresh paper to the market

Golub prices its first new BSL issue of the year
Golub Capital CLO 87(B) was priced at USD 407.7m, and arranged by BNP Paribas

New Crescent US CLO prices AAAs at SOFR plus 128bps
The manager paired with arranger Jefferies to price Atlas XXVII as a USD 409.6m transaction

Invesco prices its first deal of 2026 via Barclays
The reset of Invesco 2023-4 saw the senior triple As narrow 53bps from their original issue level

Barings issues Euro market’s first reset for 2026
BNP Paribas was the sole arranger for Barings Euro CLO 2024-1, which was valued at EUR 376.5m

Onex and CIFC price tightest resets of 2026 so far
Onex 2021-23 was arranged via CIBC as a USD 372m offering, while CIFC engaged Bank of America for its reworking of CIFC 2023-III

Benefit Street Partners issues 2026's first new CLO
SMBC Nikko was the sole arranger for Benefit Street Partners CLO 47, which priced as a USD 506m offering

European CLO primary activity kicks off as M&G prices refi
The first European pricing activity of 2026 took place Friday as BNP Paribas arranged a repricing of M&G’s Margay CLO II

European CLO rankings – full-year 2025
CVC leapt to the top of the European CLO manager issuance pile in 2025, while Jefferies extended its run of annual victories amongst arrangers to four in a row

2026 kicks off with a lot of thunder and not much lightning
ANALYSIS: A lot of noise around geopolitics, Fed interference and market volatility has had little effect on the global CLO market, for now  

US BSL CLO rankings – full-year 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone returns to the top of the tree as the leading US BSL CLO issuer in 2025 in Creditflux's full-year manager rankings, while Bank of America comfortably topped the arranger tables. Behind them though, there was plenty of movement

Blackstone US resets prices AAAs at SOFR plus 121
DeWolf Park CLO, a 2017-vintage US BSL deal, was more than three years past the end of its reinvestment period and had paid down more than half its total capitalisation

Anchorage re-rates AA debt to AAA in 2024 US CLO refi
The full refinancing of the 2024-vintage deal was arranged by Morgan Stanley

M&A resurgence to power new US private credit CLO issuance
ANALYSIS: The anticipated interest rate cuts should create a more attractive environment for issuance, but there are concerns about middle market portfolios that have weakened over the last year