Barings gets short-dated Euro CLO over line with fixed triple A and delayed single B tranches
Goldman Sachs arranged the €301.5 million deal, which as a one-year reinvestment and one-year non-call

CLOs can weather a short recession, but maybe not a long one, conference hears
The US economy is likely to enter a recession in the first half of 2023, attendees at IMN's ABS East conference heard on Tuesday. While the severity of the downturn is unknown despite the Federal Reserve aiming for a 'soft landing', CLOs are well positioned to weather the storm - as long as the recession is contained in a relatively short period

Triple As come at 199bp for Barings CLO
Barings priced a new CLO on Tuesday with a triple A spread of 199 basis points over Sofr

15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline.

New Barings CLO scores first sub-200bp triple A print since July
Barings broke the US CLO market's issuance drought on Thursday, pricing the first primary transaction of the week and scoring the tightest debt execution since July in the process

US CLO pipeline: Dispersion comes to fore, while Capital Four goes static
The CLO market is heating up once again after the summer lull and pricing has tightened, with at least three US CLO managers looking to match or even best Palmer Square Capital Management’s triple A print of 200 basis points

US CLO pipeline: What takes your fancy? Three years, four years or the full five, we’ve got it all
If you’re looking to invest in a reinvesting CLO, then you have your choice of length as the US CLO pipeline begins to fill with five more forthcomings join four holdovers

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

Barings explains decision to drop 'fat triple B' from new CLO
Barings has responded to market talk the firm dropped an initial plan to structure a US CLO with a ‘fat triple B tranche’ by saying it "achieved the most economically advantageous and efficiently marketable structure"

Barings prints 1.5-year non-call CLO with mezz and junior notes not offered
Barings priced a new CLO on Friday while an affiliate held the bottom half of the capital stack from single A down

Global CLO league tables - June 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - June YTD

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

   

Barings scores tight debt execution on latest new CLO
Barings priced a new CLO on Tuesday, achieving the third tightest liability pricing for a five-year reinvestment US CLO this month

Global CLO league tables - May 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May YTD

Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - March YTD

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies takes huge lead as managers bunch up
The increased volatility and geopolitical risk brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant European CLO issuance dropped off in March after a strong February

Three US CLOs join growing list of deals to default
Another three US CLOs have the ignominy of having their tranches downgraded to D, taking the total list of 2.0 CLOs to default to eight. Before August 2021, 2.0 CLOs had a clean record according to S&P ratings 

Barings places CLO triple As at 138bp in latest new CLO
Barings priced its latest new CLO on Friday, scoring a 138 basis point print on its floating rate triple A notes

Euro CLO league tables: primary issuance shuts down amid extreme market volatility
European CLO issuance initially picked up in February with €7.82bn in total pricings, compared to just €2.44bn in January, before extreme market volatility preceding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halted the primary market.

Global CLO league tables - February 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Feb YTD

CLOs at a glance
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

Euro CLO league tables: Dry January means focus switches to refis and resets
It is healthy to take a break after what was a bumper 2021. And Europe's CLO market has taken that to heart by abstaining from new issues and instead reworking older CLOs

Global CLO league tables - January 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jan YTD

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

European CLO market gets underway with two refis, one reset and bubbling pipeline
Managers priced two European CLO refis and one European CLO reset on Thursday as Barings, Blackstone and Carlyle all reworked deals