Napier Park brings covid-era European CLO volumes to €1.5 billion
Napier Park Global today became the sixth CLO issuer in Europe since the onset of the pandemic, according to market sources, bringing volumes on the continent since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic to over €1.5 billion

Single Bs set to return to primary euro CLOs as Napier Park markets new issue
Napier Park Global Capital is set to become the first CLO manager to sell a single B-rated CLO since the covid-19 pandemic onset,

Junior spreads finally tighten as Fair Oaks prices Europe's fifth pandemic-era CLO
Fair Oaks Capital today became the fifth CLO manager to price a new issue amid the coronavirus pandemic

Where are the gloating I-told-you-so columnists who claimed CLOs would bring global destruction?
We have seen a measured response to the coronavirus crisis: fund managers aren’t collapsing and investors are not shunning CLOs

Delayed issue double Bs reach Europe's CLO market as Fair Oaks markets new issue
Fair Oaks Capital is marketing a new issue European CLO via JP Morgan and has opted for just over a one-year reinvestment period

Direct lenders eye 200bp premium in primary market
Deal flow is streaming in for European direct lenders who, despite monitoring portfolios for covid-19 related issues, have one eye on the primary market

CLOs at a glance
A round-up of CLO primary and secondary

Germany's €600 billion aid package and amended insolvency rules line road to recovery
Germany has launched two major initiatives, relevant for direct lenders, to help companies weather the negative financial impact of the covid-19 pandemic, according to Hans Stamm and Angelo Lercara, Munich-based partners at Dechert

Basque-ing in ESG CLOs: Guggenheim prices Bilbao European deal via Citi
Guggenheim Investments has priced the fourth new European CLO of the pandemic era with a €281.65 million deal named Bilbao III

Guggenheim aims at European CLO for its second deal since covid-19 outbreak
Guggenheim Investments is on track to become the second manager to issue CLOs in the US and Europe following the coronavirus outbreak, according to market sources.

KKR scores tight pricing with Europe's third CLO of the pandemic era
KKR Financial Advisors has priced Europe's third CLO since the covid-19 pandemic and scored the tightest debt execution yet down the capital structure

European CLO market gets going in a hurry with Redding Ridge three-year deal
The European primary CLO market has gone from being shut for a month to pricing two deals within hours of each other and developing a term curve that is very much in its infancy

European CLOs make long-awaited comeback with Permira breakthrough
Permira Debt Managers today re-opened Europe's CLO primary market by pricing the continent's first new issue since the coronavirus-related market sell off

Permira European CLO edges closer
The relaunch of the European CLO market is slowly gathering pace with Permira Debt Managers’ Providus CLO IV taking shape with a view to pricing on Friday

Four managers eye breakthrough new issue European CLOs
The European primary CLO market is showing signs of revival with four managers eyeing deals

UK government approves covid-19 loan scheme for larger businesses
The UK government announced a new covid-19 loan scheme on Friday to support larger firms with annual turnover of up to £500 million

Unique CLO upsizes to $22 billion
The world’s largest CLO has more than doubled in size to total a whopping $22 billion

Short-dated CSOs touted as jump-to-default risk hits curves
The coronavirus outbreak has all but vanquished hopes of any regular CSO business getting done, but sources say bespoke portfolios of short-dated CDS could soon be in the offing as investors look to express a view on when the crisis will end.

Points up front: Despite the fees, European SME CLOs are the future
Producing the first post-crisis securitisation of small and mid-sized European loans was a monumental effort for Be-Spoke Capital.

CLO warehouses trigger draw stops as loan market tanks
CLO warehouses are being put on ice due to ‘draw stop’ triggers, which have come into play as loan prices plunge.

‘Hoard credit’ says PM as markets swing
As Creditflux went to press, the covid-19 death toll in Italy surged by 700 after two days of slowing, and the US congress agreed a $2 trillion stimulus package.

CDS show the way as prices move and volumes surge
CDS volumes provide an eye-opening view of how the asset class has grown in prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, with index trading near doubling year-to-date on 2019, even as secondary bond markets hit lockdown.

We’ve survived before, we can do so again

We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par

Silver lining: credit investors provided with lower entry points than Q4 2018
Oil shocks and the coronavirus outbreak, along with aftermath effects such as US Federal Reserve interventions and lockdowns, is providing credit investors with lower entry points than the Q4 2018 sell-off, say sources. Furthermore, an expected U-shaped rather than V-shaped recovery could provide a greater money multiple for opportunistic investments - if they can access them