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

Birch Grove and Napier Park price US BSL CLOs
Birch Grove CLO 16 priced its triple As at 120bps, while Napier Park’s Regatta 36 Funding saw its senior top-of-stack paper clear 5bps wider

Elmwood, Garnet price similarly-structured US BSL CLOs
Elmwood CLO 48 was arranged by Citi, while Garnet maintained its impressive rate of issuance with its sixth deal in just 10 months

JPMorgan Commercial Bank taps new head of syndicated finance
The new head previously worked as head of Northeast and Canada regional leveraged finance in the global investment banking group

Nassau prices third US CLO
Arranged by Wells Fargo, the USD 404m offering priced its triple As at SOFR plus 131bps, toward the wider end of the current primary market

New US CLOs see mezz widening even as issuance maintains steady pace
Over USD 2.4bn of new CLO paper priced on Tuesday and Wednesday as Blackstone, Nuveen, Voya, Sixth Street and KKR all printed new BSL transactions

Carlyle, Sixth Street BDCs find yield boost in CLOs
ANALYSIS: The two firms recently struck a joint venture that will buy up broadly syndicated loans and issue CLOs managed by the two teams

T. Rowe Price issues inaugural CLO, debuts as new manager
Rowe CLO 2026-1 is the first CLO to emerge from T. Rowe Price’s own platform; the firm also owns prominent CLO issuer Oak Hill Advisors

Muzinich prices first new CLO in 12 months
The USD 407m BSL CLO priced via BNP Paribas, with the senior triple As clearing at SOFR plus 117bps

Carlyle prices its first new CLO for 2026
The USD 505m Carlyle CLO 2026-1 priced its senior triple A notes at SOFR plus 116bps

New loan shop Mountain Point becomes 2026’s first debut US CLO manager
The recently-launched credit manager priced its first CLO via Bank of America as a USD 507m BSL issue

US CLO AAAs tighten to 12-month tight as Oak Hill Advisors prices new deal at 113bps
The mark is the tightest since the same manager priced OHA Credit Funding 20 with triple As at 110bps over the base rate on 28 February last year

Software selloff hits CLO equity, BB MVOCs – Barclays
The percentage of US loans trading above par has tumbled to 27%, introducing mark-to-market risk for CLO tranche investors

BSP is latest to issue US CLO AAAs at 115bps, as New Mountain and CQS also price new deals
Benefit Street Partners issued its second new US CLO of the year, with Bank of America arranging the USD 502.6m transaction

New Antares US BSL CLO prices AAAs at 115bps
Antares has matched the existing new-issue tight for US BSL CLOs with its latest print, Orion CLO 2026-7, priced via SMBC Nikko

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

More than USD 2bn of new US BSL CLO paper prices on a busy Thursday
Blackstone issued a sizeable USD 710m BSL CLO that matched the current triple-A market tight for new US issues, on a busy Thursday that also saw fresh BSL deals price from Aristotle Pacific, MidOcean, and Elmwood

Investcorp, Garnet, UBS, and CTM price new US CLOs
New US BSL CLO issues this week from Investcorp, Garnet, UBS, and CTM Asset Management totalled USD 1.86bn in value

Former Ares CLO leader Boris Okuliar joins Corinthia
London-based Okuliar is now Corinthia’s chief strategy officer and head of global diversified credit, signalling the private credit firm’s expansion into public credit

CLO equity payments decline for US and Europe
Reinvesting US BSL CLOs saw median equity payments slip 16bps from the fourth quarter of 2025

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

Northwestern Mutual prices first new CLO in six months
The manager’s initial print for 2026 saw its triple As clear just outside the market tight for new issues

Fund performance – December 2025
All categories end 2025 positively as Pictet Alt takes 12-month crown

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