Libor floors and Volcker tweak bode well for future of CLOs
It’s been a truly miserable year, but amid all the despair covered so tirelessly by the mainstream media has been an omission; namely, that CLOs have withstood the damage caused by the pandemic

Banks employ tools to dig into CLO warehouse exposures
Credit analytics firm Oxane Partners has started a new business catering to the needs of CLO warehouse lenders, say officials at the company

Lagging CLO triple Bs draw investors
Senior US CLO spreads have retreated to their pre-pandemic levels, but triple and double B spreads have lagged - and those wider spreads are attracting new investors into the asset class

Methodology tweaks could prove a boost for CLO warfs
Moody’s proposed CLO methodology changes could impact 8% of US and European CLO tranches positively, the rating agency says

Fracking servicer FTS files for chapter 11 protection
Fracking servicer FTS International filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston yesterday. The credit is not widely featured in CLOs with only nine managers holding $47.9 million of FTI’s term loans

Fair Oaks rotates to Euro CLO equity after 32% gain on double Bs
Fair Oaks Capital is starting to rotate back to CLO equity positions after taking advantage of the stabilising market and using profits from its higher-quality, more opportunistic trades earlier this year to carefully dial up the risk

Beneath the triple C: slowest downgrade pace puts market in recovery mode
The CLO market recovery is starting to benefit from borrower downgrades falling to their slowest rate since the coronavirus crisis began in March

Ellington winds down European CLO warehouse as PM joins rival
Ellington Management is winding down its European CLO warehouse with Barclays, while Ellington's European CLO operations lead has left for a rival firm

CLO equity claws back earlier losses to return 7.63% in Q2
CLO equity returned 7.63% in the second quarter on the back of leveraged loans rallying, according to Flat Rock Global's CLO equity index. Market prices have partially regained losses from Q1, in which CLO equity plunged by 30.41% following the coronavirus outbreak and the implementation of lockdowns globally

Loan leverage in CLOs has risen 1.3 turns, finds S&P
Leverage in US CLO portfolios increased by an average of 1.3 turns compared to the pre-covid-19 loan market, according to new research from S&P Ratings

Libor issue hurt Q2 returns on CLO investments, says Prospect's Eliasek
Prospect Capital Corporation's interest bearing investments generated an annualised yield of 11.4% in the second quarter, down 1% from the first quarter, the firm has revealed - with the decline in Libor to blame for the decrease in its CLO yields, management said on an earnings call today

The Last Tranche with Flat Rock's Bates: mid-market CLO equity proves advantageous in crisis
In this episode of The Last Tranche, Creditflux's Hugh Minch sits down with Flat Rock Global managing director Shiloh Bates. Topics include launching a new CLO fund, the advantage of middle market CLOs in a crisis, and why some risk retention fund investors' equity positions have underperformed

Beneath the triple C: CLOs get their sneakers on as retailers run into bankruptcy
July added further relief to CLO portfolios with the slowest rate of downgrades to triple C since March. US CLO portfolios faced downgrades of $2.18 billion to triple C while European portfolios faced just €59.13 million of such downgrades

Cut! Cineworld’s cancelled merger boosts CLO OCs
Investors in Cineworld’s $1.9 billion term loan breathed a sigh of relief in July after the UK cinema chain cancelled its merger with Canadian firm Cineplex, with holders repaid in full, according to market sources

Libor basis risk undermines Q3 CLO equity distributions
A technical issue for CLO Libor reset dates in April has hammered July equity payments, leading to a roughly 1% cut to equity cash flows for the second quarter

Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year

Fieldwood slips into second bankruptcy as CLOs hold $314 million
CLO managers hold $314.5 million of oil and gas drilling company Fieldwood Energy, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday for the second time in two years 

US CLO single Bs reach post-crisis tights despite rating pressure
US CLO single Bs are trading at their tightest levels since the coronavirus pandemic outbreak and ,while these bonds make up a tiny slice of the market, more and more instances of single B b-wics are ocurring

Majority equity in BlueMountain US CLO goes up for sale
A majority of the equity in BlueMountain CLO 2018-1 is up for sale tomorrow in a sign that Assured Guaranty could be following through on its plan to change its CLO manager’s issuance model

Carlyle defers $4 million CLO management fees in the second quarter
Carlyle Group deferred $4 million subordinate fees on its CLOs in the second quarter, representatives for the firm announced on the company's earnings call on Thursday

OC health check: breaches start to take toll on July payment dates
37 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation test failure last week, but this was a falling percentage of those publishing trustee reports and none were fresh breaches