Crescent pulls in capital-charge-sensitive insurers for CLO equity fund
Managing director and head of tradeable credit John Fekete told Creditflux that the cash-on-cash distributions of CLO equity look particularly attractive as private equity struggles with returning distributions to investors

Spate of new private credit CLOs issue from PennantPark, Cerberus and Jefferies Credit Partners
PennantPark CLO 13 issued on Tuesday through Scotiabank on a short-dated timetable, while Cerberus Loan Funding 54 and Jefferies Credit Partners Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 were both structured as conventional-duration 2Y/4Y deals

Eagle Point leads USD 1.3bn HoldCo loan for data center deal tied to Anthropic
The CLO specialist used its growing infrastructure credit team to provide the loan, which makes up a portion of a USD 16bn data center financing deal in Texas

Latest Ares private credit CLO sees AAAs clear at 145bps
Ivy Hill Middle Market Credit Fund XXV issued with a value of USD 403.2m and a 2Y/5Y schedule

BlackRock becomes latest to issue static private credit CLO
The manager's latest print follows static private credit CLO prints in recent months from Fortress, Blackstone and Barings, as well as the manager's own BlackRock DLF IX-L CLO 2026 Static in January, which issued as an unusual single-tranche CLO

Fidelity issues inaugural private credit CLO with half-billion-dollar print
Fidelity has priced its first private credit CLO, becoming the latest player to enter the space, following Partners Group's similar debut deal last week

New private credit CLOs print from Apollo and Churchill
Apollo's ADL CLO 3 was valued at USD 515m and issued through Citi, while Churchill paired with Bank of America to price its USD 349m MMSLF CLO-V

US levfin community raises USD 4.3m in annual melanoma research fundraiser
The networking evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City brought together members of the leveraged finance community across banks, private credit firms, law firms, LPs, private equity shops and more

Guggenheim resets three-year-old private credit CLO
The triple As priced at SOFR plus 163bps, narrowing 87bps from their existing spread level

US private credit CLO performance shows resilience—S&P
A new report from S&P Global Ratings shows US private credit CLO performance continued to show resilience in April, despite negative headlines

CLO equity and private credit offer comparable returns—Texas TRS
EXCLUSIVE: The US institutional investor giant approaches credit investments opportunistically and as it seeks to achieve a 7% return target for its overall portfolio, CIO Jase Auby told Creditflux

Golub shakes up leadership with co-CEOs, co-Presidents appointments
The alternative credit manager will have three co-presidents after promoting Spyro Alexopoulos and hiring two new executives

Abry Private Debt acquires USD 330m private credit portfolio
Abry partnered with Coller Capital on the credit secondaries transaction

Bank loan growth driven by lending to private credit and other funds—S&P
Total loan growth in the US banking system was driven by lending to nonbank financial institutions like investment funds from 2024 to 2025, the ratings agency found

Hayfin names Goldman Sachs veteran as head of investments
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Marsh has been hired to the newly created role

Apogem reprices 2019-vintage private credit CLO for third time
Apogem Capital has repriced a 2019-vintage private credit CLO for the third time, with the USD 348m reset coming two years after the CLO was last reset in March 2024

Iran War to increase corporate default rates globally — IACPM Survey
Though the credit market is absorbing new leveraged loan issuance amid geopolitical uncertainty, credit managers expect the war to drive a rise in defaults

Maturity wall threatens high-risk AI private credit names – KBRA
Direct lenders are showing an unwillingness to extend maturities for companies that are vulnerable to artificial intelligence or underperforming already 

JPMorgan Asset Management mixes public, private credit in new semi-liquid fund
JPMorgan’s asset management arm offers exposure to various credit investments across the public and private markets in a new interval fund for affluent individuals

Bain prices BSL and private credit CLOs in same day
The manager’s new US issue, along with its reset of a 2018-vintage private credit CLO, totalled just under USD 1.06bn in value

Private credit manager Varagon prices second CLO
Arranged by BNP Paribas, the USD 592m MDL Structured Notes II is the manager’s first CLO issue since its market debut in October 2024

Apollo readies offensive strategy for software valuation troubles
The alternative asset manager says it’s ready to step in as a lender or even provide equity to software companies as the market anticipates  challenges from artificial intelligence

AI’s improvements to workflow will be felt in months, not years – Carlyle co-president Mark Jenkins
PODCAST: Speaking on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee, Jenkins predicts the next stage will involve how corporates implement AI tools into their workflows, and that the process is “really in the first innings of implementation”

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

Private credit investors chase higher risk-return—Campbell Lutyens
A new survey shows investors are seeking higher returning strategies amid expectations of lower rates, while also turning away from the dominant North American market