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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aegon resets post-RP US CLO
The repricing of Cedar Funding V was arranged by Jefferies, with the arranger bank enjoying a brisk start to the year

Jefferies kicks off US BSL issuance activity with repricings for Five Arrows and Bain
The reset for Five Arrows and a refinancing for Bain totalled to a value of just under USD 788.5m

CLO industry in push to increase use of AI in 2026
ANALYSIS: Investors are already using AI to evaluate managers and CLO documentation