Market participants split over biggest risk to CLOs: Creditflux US CLO Summit
There are potential threats to the CLO market from all angles, but during a lively opening panel at Creditflux’s US CLO Summit on Tuesday – the first CLO conference to be held in New York since the pandemic – speakers responded to a poll showing 67% of audience members felt inflation/rising interest rates was the biggest hazard

Jefferies CLO official lands at Bain as head structurer
Bain Capital Credit has hired a New York-based head structurer from Jefferies

Bain achieves strong triple A execution on second US CLO
Bain Capital Credit priced its second US CLO of the year on Friday, with strong triple A execution on the $606.2 million deal 

Bain and CSAM each reset a late 2019 CLO with senior triple As yielding 135bp
Bain Capital Credit and Credit Suisse Asset Management each reset a CLO from late 2019 on Friday, with both deals placing their senior triple A tranches at 135 basis points over Sofr

Bain navigates market volatility with new US CLO
Bain Capital Credit priced its first Sofr-linked CLO on Thursday, despite a backdrop of sharply widening credit markets

CLO managers show respect to their elders
Alongside lucrative new issues, managers also make time for refinancing and resetting old deals. Our data shows that, in 2021, mid-sized firms were the most effective at this balancing act

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

Bain and Columbia add $840 million to CLO reset supply
Bain Capital Credit and Columbia Management both reset a legacy CLO on Friday, adding $840 million to total supply

Anchorage closes in on US CLO top 10 with bond-flex issue
The contest between managers for US CLO new issuance league table standing this year has tightened, with Anchorage Capital bringing a bond-flex deal that moves it closer to 10th placed Neuberger Berman

Bain circles CLO market tights with new issue triple As at Libor plus 114bp
Bain Capital Credit priced its latest new US CLO on Tuesday with the triple A notes yielding just 114 basis points over Libor

Bain and Blue Owl upsize middle market CLOs with resets
Bain Capital Credit and Blue Owl Capital each reset a middle market CLO on Monday, with both managers opting to upsize their vehicles without changing the equity tranche sizes

Assured confirms Bain Euro CLO wrap trade
Assured Guaranty has confirmed it guaranteed the triple A tranche of the European CLO

Bain's 2021 new issue CLO volume rises to $2.9 billion with sixth deal
Bain Capital Credit on Tuesday priced its sixth CLO of the year, bringing its volume for 2021 up to $2.9 billion

US CLO pipeline: Go long! Refis fall from favour as AMMC looks to join list of 2021 issuers
The only record left to fall this year in US CLOs is 2017’s refinancing total of $102.8 billion with the market $6.3 billion shy. Yet this segment shows little interest to break more records with the pipeline filled with new issues and resets as longer tenured deals are preferred.

Investors behind CLO guarantees emerge as Assured wraps third deal
A bank and an insurer have emerged as the two investors behind Assured Guaranty’s financial guarantees of recent CLO trades. And Assured Guaranty has provided a guarantee to an investor on a third European CLO

Bain prints second European CLO new issue of 2021
.Bain’s latest deal, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2021-2, comes just four months after it priced its first new issue of the year

CLO reset surge extends with over $1.7 billion pricing on Friday
CLO reset supply was elevated for a second consecutive day on Friday as $1.7 billion priced across four deals

New issues take a backseat as US CLO market absorbs three resets and a refi
CLO primary market activity was briefly diverted away from heavy new issue supply on Thursday and attention turned to resets and refinancings, with four deals printing in total

Bain notches up fifth US CLO of 2021 with volumes passing $2.4 billion
Bain Capital Credit has priced its fifth new US CLO of the year, bringing its issuance volume for 2021 to $2.44 billion

Bain passes $2 billion of CLO issuance in 2021
Bain Capital Credit priced its fourth US CLO of the year on Thursday, bringing its new issue volume for the year over the $2 billion mark

Prolific 2020 US CLO issuer resets triple As at 117bp
Bain Capital Credit, which issued five US CLOs last year, has got round to reworking the first of these by resetting Bain Capital Credit CLO 2020-2

Global CLO trading lab: quality and optionality shine as 2020 and 2019 mezz trades up
The primary and secondary CLO markets are moving in tandem with both markets drifting wider amid a wealth of supply

CLO equity fluctuates as resets trigger upsizes and downsizes
A once-rare move of CLO issuers upsizing or downsizing their equity tranches in resets is entering the mainstream

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Bain passes €1 billion mark for Euro CLO 2021 volume with new issue
-Bain Capital Credit has taken its 2021 European CLO volume to over €1 billion in pricing its latest new issue, Bain Capital Euro CLO 2021-1