Barclays rehires high yield credit trader from Goldman Sachs
A high yield specialist has become the second credit trader in as many months to rejoin Barclays from Goldman Sachs

CLO pipeline: newcomer emerges with unusual transaction
The US CLO pipeline continues to fill up, with 20 new issue US CLOs featured and another 17 deals set to be refinanced.

Spire scales heights as Creditflux’s Manager of the Year 2019
Spire Partners celebrated bringing home three Creditflux awards, including the coveted Manager of the Year trophy, on a night of high spirits on 8 May at London’s Landmark Hotel.

CSAM prices largest CLO refi of 2019 with triple As at 122bp
Credit Suisse Asset Management could be poised to issue three CLO transactions this week, according to market sources

Global b-wic round-up: US CLO equity continues its surge
Last week marked the third straight week that the US CLO secondary market has seen total listings of under $600 million, but over a quarter of that was equity.

Morgan Stanley grows direct lending arm in New York with two hires
The bank has added a second hire to its private debt team having appointed an ex-Carlyle official to a newly created role as head of direct lending 

Two CLO investors leave GSO in London
Two experienced CLO investors have parted ways with GSO Capital Partners in the last few weeks

Owl Creek turns heads to special situations with new fund
The firm joins several other distressed investors preparing to take advantage of a potential downturn

Carlyle resets 2012 CLO for a second time in $615 million deal
Carlyle hits the market with its second reset of the year

CLO pipeline: managers seek to return as others arrive, after testing Q1
With the first quarter of 2019 now in the books, the CLO market looks to be continuing where it left off.

CLO pipeline: managers decide there's no point hanging about with quick-fire CLOs
The CLO pipeline for the coming week shows signs of decent flow as managers ready themselves to offload deals. 

Global CLO b-wic round-up: Europe and US an ocean apart as flows reverse
Last week saw €102.35 million of European CLOs listed on the secondary market, only the second instance of 2019 with over €100 million of items put up for auction, but the US CLO b-wic market closed a strong month with a down week.

Investcorp hires ex-Medley structured credit head as John Fraser retires
Investcorp has appointed a CLO specialist as co-head of US credit, following the retirement of the firm’s previous sole US credit head

Global CLO b-wic round-up: fixed tranches make their way into European secondary
Last week brought the first instance of fixed coupon tranches trading in the European CLO secondary market this year, according to CLO-i. 

Benefit Street affiliate BDC buys stake in ABL lender Siena
Business Development Corporation of America (BDCA), a non-traded business development company managed by Benefit Street Partners, has bought a controlling stake in Siena Capital Finance 

US CLO b-wic round-up: secondary market continues its hot streak
The US secondary CLO market last week reached its busiest pace of the year so far with $1.1 billion worth of b-wics posted, a 30% increase on the week before

Nassau lures bank's CLO origination head as it adds investment arm to manager business
Nassau Re has poached a bank's head of CLO syndicate and origination as it launches a CLO equity and debt investment platform

HPS targets $8 billion for flagship mezzanine strategy
HPS Mezzanine Partners 2019, the firm's fourth fund in its mezzanine strategy, has won $100 million from a Louisiana pension fund 

WhiteHorse forms $125 million middle-market JV with Ohio pension
The $79.8 billion Ohio pension fund has teamed up with WhiteHorse to form a joint venture that will have a $375 million total lending capacity

AEA markets successor private debt fund following $1 billion fund close
AEA Investors is marketing its latest private credit strategy, with the firm launching AEA Middle Market Debt Fund IV

Loans have changed. Leverage and docs are different. So what does this mean for recoveries?
With Fed chiefs past and present signalling rising financial risk, managers need to check their metrics, writes our columnist and Churchill Asset Management's head of capital markets and origination 

Stone Harbor appoints co-CIO and high yield co-heads
Stone Harbor Investment Partners, the New York headquartered credit fund manager, has opted to share out its chief investment officer responsibilities

GSO scores quarterly refi tights with its 24th CLO of the year
GSO Capital Partners priced its 24th CLO transaction of 2018

Carlyle and Citi's CLO volumes pass $1 billion on the week as pair reunite for new issue
Carlyle Group teamed up with Citi on Friday for the second time in the space of a week to price a CLO transaction

Carlyle resets its oldest active CLO in reworking of 2012 deal
Carlyle Group has priced its 23rd CLO transaction of the year following a $561 million US reset arranged by Citi yesterday, according to market sources