Spotlight: Local exchange carriers - calling for rescue on the M&A hotline
Growth-starved US phone companies are seeing consolidation as the best way to improve performance

Citi upsizes US manager’s planned fifth CLO amid strong demand
US manager puts majority equity into planned CLO number five: the rest of he sub notes are also spoken for

Investcorp resets CLO, which was Europe's first Volcker-compliant deal
Back in 2014 Investcorp Credit Management (then known as 3i Debt Management) priced Europe's first US-friendly 2.0 CLO, answering the call as market participants asked: "When will there be a Harvest for the world?" The manager has now reset that groundbreaking Harvest IX CLO

$21 billion credit hedge fund hits the US CLO road running
A New York-based hedge fund manager shows that firms with risk retention funds in place have the capacity to make a big impact in the market

Brigade cruises into Europe with debut Armada CLO
Brigade is the 40th manager to price a 2.0 European CLO after pricing Armada Euro CLO. 

ICG splits the difference with 4.5-year CLO reinvestment period
ICG has priced its second US CLO of 2017, working with Citi to bring to market ICG US CLO 2017-2

Manager maintains 100% refi record as it updates 2015 euro CLO
A large CLO manager continues to favour refis over resets after completing a €330 million deal yesterday

Fast-growing CBAM tops 2017 CLO rankings with another huge US deal
CBAM only gets out of bed for $1 billion-plus CLOs it seems. The credit manager debuted as a CLO manager in June and has now racked up $2.8 billion in AUM in this area.

European CLO manager wastes no time in directing reset
Morgan Stanley has reset a European CLO, with new triple-A notes pricing at 90bp

Insurance company makes swift move into US CLOs with debut deal
Natixis is carving out a reputation as the go-to arranger for insurance-affiliated managers looking to launch CLOs

Dublin-based manager looks to reset third CLO of 2017
The manager is working with Goldman Sachs to arrange the reset, and is seeking to upsize the deal's debt trances to €373.5 million

Family office-backed manager markets its comeback CLO
A revitalised credit manager is returning to the CLO market with a new partner that has committed to supporting its risk retention programme.

THL Credit hits rapids with Wind River CLO refi
THL Credit has priced a refi of one of its CLOs just days after it became eligible for refinancing. The CLO is one of the few 2015-vintage transactions to comply wth US risk retention rules

KKR Credit shaves 45bp off cost of debt in US CLO refi
The $368 million refi of the manager's 2015 CLO saw the spreads decrease on all six classes of debt notes 

PGIM prices Dryden 50 CLO in $610 million deal
The deal is the manager's second US new issue CLO this year

Morgan Stanley gets busy in the US CLO primary market
Morgan Stanley’s team was busy in the US CLO primary market yesterday, pricing not only the refi of a large 2015 CLO, but a third new deal of 2017 for one of the market's biggest managers

Citi prices two US CLO resets in a day
Post-reinvestment resets are becoming popular with Carlyle pricing this type of transaction yesterday.

GSO Capital looks to price its fifth euro refi of 2017
GSO Capital aims to refinance €243 million of a 2015 European CLO

Debtwire European ABS round-up: pipeline fills with Dutch ABS and RMBS
A range of niche securitisations are in the European ABS pipeline, according to a report by Debtwire, Creditflux’s sister publication

CIFC resets 2013 CLO three months after it left its reinvestment period
It's never too late to reset a CLO: CIFC has elected to revitalise a 2013 that has gone past its reinvestment period

CLO round-up: market participants welcome back returning CLO managers
CLO managers returning to the market after a period of absence has been the main story of the last week.

Citi upsizes 2016 CLO by 64% as part of reset
A CLO originally designed as a short-duration deal has been repackaged into a regular way deal. As part of the transformation, Citi has upsized the CLO by 64%

BNP Paribas prices €362 million CLO for affiliate manager, reports Debtwire
BNP Paribas Asset Management has priced its new €361.65 million European CLO BNPP AM Euro CLO 2017, according to Creditflux's sister publication Debtwire

Five Arrows refis entire debt stack in its 2014 European CLO
Rothschild's Five Arrows Managers has entered the CLO refinancing market market by pricing a refi of Contego II, according to market sources