Banks join fight against slow loan settlement in mini-win for CLOs
Several developments are in the works to tackle painfully slow loan settlement times in Europe, with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Clifford Chance and the Loan Market Association among the firms looking to drive change

Euro CLO mezz widens but seniors hold firm as BlueBay and Sound Point price new issues
BlueBay Asset Management and Sound Point Capital Management became the latest CLO managers to price European new issues

Acer Tree flowers with debut European CLO
The CLO market welcomed a new manager on Friday as Acer Tree Investment Management priced its inaugural deal via Barclays

HPS resets 2017 CLO bought from Bardin Hill
HPS Investment Partners has reset and upsized a 2017 CLO it acquired from Bardin Hill Investment Partners in 2021

PGIM becomes third manager this year to reset 2015 Euro CLO
PGIM has paired with Morgan Stanley to reset its 2015 deal Dryden 39

European CLO benchmark could drop to 90bp for triple As as Cairn markets new issue
The European CLO triple A benchmark look set to drop to 90 basis points over Euribor this week, following an updated price guidance on Cairn’s latest new issue

Sculptor prices European CLO and establishes 92bp as triple A benchmark
European CLO new issue floodgates have opened with Sculptor Capital Management’s European CLO IX the latest deal to price, following the first four new issues of the year to price end of last week

Euro CLO league tables: Dry January means focus switches to refis and resets
It is healthy to take a break after what was a bumper 2021. And Europe's CLO market has taken that to heart by abstaining from new issues and instead reworking older CLOs

Global CLO league tables - January 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jan YTD

JP Morgan prints Palmer Square and Neuberger Berman Euro CLO new issues
JP Morgan brought just over €800 million of European CLO paper to the market on Thursday, partnering with two of the market's newer managers Neuberger Berman and Palmer Square for new issues

BlackRock resets 2019 European CLO with strong single B execution
BlackRock has reworked its 2019 European CLO BlackRock European CLO VIII

Past returns: Ares constructs private CLO
In Creditflux 10 years ago we reported on Ares Management putting together a quasi-CLO in a bilateral transaction involving senior debt investor Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Direct lenders look to support venture backed businesses
European direct lenders are exploring deal transactions based on annual recurring revenue (ARR) financings, according to market sources

Sofr spike boosts CLO debt as Europe and US go out of sync
The sharp rise in three-month term Sofr has caused CLO relative value to shift decisively towards primary US CLO debt tranches in January as the floating rate benchmark shot up from 9.11bp to 17.06bp (from 1-20 January)

CLOs at a glance (February 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Bond pipeline builds as rocky markets thwart supply
Various factors have played into credit spreads widening at the start of 2022, but an over-supply of bond issuance is not one of them — in contrast to what was moving the market this time last year

Sound Point resets second Euro CLO with triple As to 93bp
Sound Point has teamed up with Credit Suisse to rework its second European CLO, resetting the deal and shaving 18.6 basis points off the CLO’s cost of debt

You wait a month for a new European CLO and two come along at once
Guggenheim Investments and Onex Credit kicked the European CLO new issue market into gear on Wednesday

Jefferies builds on strong January as it markets Cairn European CLO
Jefferies is marketing its fourth European CLO of the year, this time pairing with Cairn Investments on a new issue

European CLO market gets underway with two refis, one reset and bubbling pipeline
Managers priced two European CLO refis and one European CLO reset on Thursday as Barings, Blackstone and Carlyle all reworked deals

KKR matches CSAM senior notes in Euro CLO refi, but goes tighter with mezz
JP Morgan has arranged a refinancing of KKR's 2016 European CLO Avoca XVII, which has around 2.2 years left of reinvestment with its non-call ending next February

CSAM refis European CLO with two-year triple As at 82bp
The CLO’s triple As priced at 82 basis points over Euribor, down from 95bp, in line the deal’s most recent guidance but wider than the 77-79bp original guidance

Neuberger markets third ESG European CLO
Neuberger Berman is expected to price the deal in the week commencing 31 January

Barings and BNP Paribas team up for first European CLO reset of year
BNP Paribas has reset Barings Euro CLO 2015-1 with all tranches (bar the double Bs) pricing roughly in line with December resets.

GLG and Citi kick off Europe's CLO market in 2022 with partial refi
Man GLG has kicked off the European CLO market in 2022 with a partial refi of its 2020 short-dated deal, Man GLG Euro CLO VI