Dishware maker files for bankruptcy as CLOs hold $200 million
CLOs hold $207.58 million of Libbey Glass, which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on Monday, as a result of the firm's impending debt maturities and the impact of coronavirus

CLO double Bs go on late night b-wic as spreads tighten sharply
Investors are piling into junior US CLO tranches as traders begin to see economic recovery following the pandemic

OC health check: some CLOs cure failures, but quarter of US deals still in breach
117 deals failed over-collateralisation tests in the last week, although only 46 of these were deals reporting breaches for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i

Scale of coronavirus-linked defaults divides credit market
As governments and central banks around the world plough money into the economy in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the loan and CLO markets are nevertheless bracing themselves for a corporate downgrade wave to turn into a default cycle

Black Diamond multi-currency CLO looks to buy back senior debt at 98.75%
Black Diamond CLO 2015-1 is voluntarily offering to pay down its senior debt

US and Europe diverge on credit spreads and more
US and European corporate credit performance has diverged since cities went into lockdown in March, with Europe tending to do better. But the CLO market gives a different picture, with 17 US transactions pricing to four in Europe since 1 April, and with tighter investment grade spreads

CLOs face trading restrictions as bankruptcies mount
CLO managers could be handcuffed in impending bankruptcies if tranche downgrades continue and restricted trading periods kick in

Libor fall weighs heavily on loan and CLO portfolios
Libor floors are set to return to prominence after three-month rates tumbled to 0.38% by 18 May, returning the loan market’s base rate to its lowest level since the oil and gas crisis of 2014-16

Cure contributions come into play in CLOs amid pandemic
Some CLO investors are triggering a mechanism in their deals that lets them inject additional equity into structures to prevent them from failing over-collateralisation or interest coverage tests

Early March European CLO makes it through the sell off with 5.4% risk retention
One of the last European CLOs to price before the primary market shut down in March has disclosed the fair value of its notes post-closing, which shows that it has a reasonable 38 basis point cushion against risk retention deficiency

Bond flex CLOs makes rapid MVOC recovery to underline evolution from CBOs
Bond flex CLOs, much like regular CLOs, are feeling the pain from March's sell off, but they have made a swift recovery

Banks report billions in unrealised CLO losses
Some of the world's largest bank buyers of CLO tranches reported billions of dollars of gross unrealised losses in their their latest quarterly reports

ABS market holds strong as talf date approaches
The US Federal Reserve announced last week that the term ABS loan facility's first subscription date for loans backed by eligible asset-backed securities (ABS) will be 17 June, but before the Fed has even spent a dollar, talf has already been a success, says Tom Sweeney, co-head of structured credit finance at DWS Asset Management.

OC health check: US CLOs hit by new round of test failures
135 deals breached an over-collateralisation test last week, 78 for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i.

Akorn falls into bankruptcy with $321 million planted in CLOs
CLOs hold $321.3 million of specialty pharmaceutical company Akorn’s debt, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-I, with the firm having filed for chapter 11 protection in the US District Court for the District of Delaware yesterday

Fair Oaks spends on junior European CLO debt after raising funds
Fair Oaks Capital has invested $92 million in junior CLO debt tranches since the start of April after putting to work fresh commitments to CLO investment fund Fair Oaks Limited

CLOs seek ways to work around warf restrictions
Corporate downgrades leading to par haircuts in CLOs have been a primary focus for CLO investors since the start of the coronavirus-induced crisis. But one of the side effects of rating actions has been a rise in weighted average rating factor test failures

$350 million of CLO collateral drips into default as oil companies file for Chapter 11
CLOs hold $353 million worth of debt of two oil and gas companies - Ultra Petroleum and Gavilan Resources - which have become the latest casulties of the precipituous decline in oil prices. The pair filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas on Thursday and Saturday, respectively

Apollo and Barings defer equity payments on long-dated CLOs
Apollo Global Management and Barings have joined PGIM in deferring their scheduled April payment dates for a handful of European CLOs, according to the latest payment reports on CLO-i. Apollo also deferred payments on several of its US CLOs.

First Creditflux web panel discusses outlook for CLOs amid covid crisis
Panellists at the first ever Creditflux webinar conference on CLOs struck a balanced view on the outlook for their market, highlighting crucial differences between the crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and the global financial crisis of 2008

Beneath the triple C: April showers send buckets overboard
Downgrade waves rocked the CLO market in April as Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded 135 corporate borrowers to triple C or below, from ratings above that level. The downgrades put CLOs in rough waters as $41.6 billion of such loans are prevalent in US CLOs while €5.64 are moored in European CLO portfolios – affecting 5.92% of the US market and 4.37% of the European market

Looming CLO downgrades will not force insurers to sell despite seven-point trading basis
Insurance companies are unlikely to be big sellers of CLO paper, despite the threat of mass downgrades as rating agencies last month put over 1,000 global CLO tranches on negative watch

CLO managers seek to defer and redirect equity distributions
Half of US CLOs are due to miss equity payments as downgrades and defaults resulting from the lockdown economy trigger overcollateralisation breaches across the market, according to the latest bank research estimates. But some managers are being granted the flexibility to redeploy cash

Flex CLOs tap mass downgrades to fill big triple C buckets
CLO managers are being hampered by the sheer volume of corporate credit downgrades to triple C, leaving the small cluster of triple C-flex CLOs to capitalise

Creditflux announces finalists for online CLO awards
Creditflux is pleased to announce the finalists for a new-look manager awards event, which will be hosted online for the first time.