CBAM plans expansion with new $60 million credit facility
CBAM has closed a $60 million credit facility to refinance a working capital facility to its parent company Eldridge Industries

CLO 2020 outlook: lower volumes predicted, but it’s not all bad news
US CLO issuance is expected to drop by roughly 20% next year, according to bank research desks. This comes after a solid 2019 in which $101 billion of new US CLOs have priced through 92 managers, as Creditflux goes to press

European Direct Lending Perspectives: fundraising records shatter
Fundraising in European direct lending hit €32.2 billion in September to mark a record-breaking year for the industry, according to the latest version of European Direct Lending Perspectives

Issuers fashion new outfits for junior mezz

CSO arrangers look to build on $65bn of issuance in 2019
The synthetic bespoke tranche market this year has fallen short of expectations in terms of overall issuance volume, but ends with transformative inroads being made.

CLOs wrestle back control of the European loan market
The share of European loans bought by CLOs is now larger than those acquired by loan managed accounts and hedge funds, according to a research paper by Barclays.

Managers amend CLO structures amid refinancing ripple
CLO managers have deployed various measures to keep their deals ticking amid a European refinancing wave.

PGIM resets European CLO to cross €2 billion in 2019 issuance
PGIM reset its 2015 European CLO today, Dryden 35, via Goldman Sachs. It takes the PGIM’s 2019 European CLO volumes pass €2 billion

Oaktree scores second new euro CLO of 2019
Oaktree Capital Management priced its second new European CLO of the year, known as Arbour CLO VII, via Bank of America

Barings splits triple As for latest new issue CLO
Barings has split its latest European CLO’s triple A notes into senior and junior tranches in a rare move for the European market

Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD

Euro CLO league tables: GSO turbos charges its lead over CVC
GSO Capital Partners kept hold of the lead in the European CLO manager league tables thanks to its turbo charged reset of Holland Park

Onex resets debut euro CLO with triple As printing at 100bp
Onex Credit Partners has reset its debut European CLO via JP Morgan, as demand for triple A-rated euro CLOs continues to soften

CLO pipeline: DFG keeps its finger on the pulse
It will be a busy year-end for new issue CLOs in the US. DFG is returning with Pulsar II, using collateral sourced entirely from the secondary market

US buyers take punt on Europe's first 2.0 SME CLO
Investors in Be-Spoke Capital’s Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1 are mostly European asset managers, but some banks and US-based institutions also invested in the precedent setting transaction 

Senior European CLO spreads edge wider as PGIM markets reset
PGIM is marketing a reset of a 2014-vintage European CLO with price talk on the floating rate senior notes at 98 basis points, say market sources

CLO pipeline: high triple C bucket opens a Gateway to pricing
In less than ideal market conditions, even experienced CLO managers are learning new tricks to keep the pipeline full. Of the 11 US new CLOs that appear in the pipeline this week, two are high triple C bucket transactions

NIBC prices 'first fully-compliant' ESG CLO
NIBC Bank has priced North Westerly VI in a transaction which the firm describes as “the first CLO fully compliant with ESG best practices”

European CLO round-up: new look turbos power up junior CLO tranches
Junior CLO debt investors are getting more defensive and this has resulted in the emergence of new-look CLO turbo tranches

Oak Hill prices first CLO transaction in Europe this year with refi
Oak Hill Advisors on Friday priced its first 2019 CLO transaction in Europe, teaming up with Morgan Stanley to refinance the triple A notes of Oak Hill European Partners V

European CLO spreads widen as Commerzbank prices first 2019 CLO
European CLO spreads widened sharply on Friday as Commerzbank issued a new CLO with triple As paying 101 basis points over Euribor

SME CLOs arrive in Europe as Be-Spoke prices Spanish loan securitisation
Middle market CLOs have arrived in Europe after Be-Spoke Capital priced the continent’s first post-crisis SME loan securitisation

CLO pipeline: ESG, risk retention and secondary loans come to the fore
Managers new and old are trying different strategies and structures to price their latest deals    

Guggenheim prices its second mid market CLO
Guggenheim Partners yesterday partnered with Barclays to issue its second US CLO of 2019, and its first of the year backed by loans to middle market companies

CSAM becomes 10th manager to reset European CLO in 2019
Credit Suisse Asset Management priced a €481.9 million reset of its 2016 European CLO named Madison Park Euro VIII, according to market sources, becoming just the 10^th European CLO manager to reset a deal this year