Be-Spoke one week away from pricing breakthrough SME CLO
Be-spoke Capital has moved a step closer to pricing its SME loan securitisation, with price talk emerging for the forthcoming Alhambra SME Funding 2019-1

Barings prices CLO backed by mid market loans
Barings has produced its third CLO transaction backed by loans to middle market companies

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub and Natixis increase their leads
August saw over $2 billion of issuance in the mid market space with managers that have been active this year, returning managers and debut managers all pricing last month. 

Guggenheim CLO syndicate co-head joins sports and media finance company
A Guggenheim Partners managing director has left the firm to join sports and entertainment financing provider 23 Capital

Barclays makes mid market CLO breakthrough with first transaction
Barclays has got its middle market CLO business off the ground

Mid market CLO league tables: Natixis and Golub reign supreme
June brought just three middle market CLOs pricings with two new issues and one refinancing that totalled $1.6 billion, bringing the year-to-date volume to $9.9 billion. Natixis is the leading arranger, having a hand in 38% of deals

DWS backs away from planned ESG-style European CLO
DWS has dropped plans to launch a European CLO, sources say. It is unclear why DWS, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank, has turned its attention elsewhere, but one source says that the capital-intensive nature of putting together risk retention-compliant deals likely weighed on the firm. 

Barings shows way forward with BDC-sponsored CLO
The unusual move by Barings BDC to issue a US CLO suggests a new way for BDCs to lock in cheap financing and withstand volatility.

Spire wins Creditflux Manager of the Year award
Spire Partners was the big winner at Creditflux's Manager Awards last night as the London-based manager scooped the award for the manager of the year. On top of this, the firm picked up awards for Best European CLO Manager and Best European CLO for Aurium CLO II

KKR and FS Investments' BDC platform markets new issue CLO
KKR and FS Investments’ business development company, FS KKR Capital Corp, is marketing a new issue CLO via Citi named FS KKR MM CLO 1

Mid market CLO round-up: eyes (wide) open as mid-market CLOs re-awaken
AB returned to the middle market CLO space this week after a year out to price ABPCI V. It is the second middle market CLO of the year after Fortress Investment Group refinanced Fortress Credit Opportunities VII. 

AB returns to CLOs by pricing 2019's first mid-market new issue
AB Private Credit Investors, the middle market credit arm of AB, has become the first manager to price a new issue CLO backed by mid-market loans in 2019

CLO manager base to boom as four debut managers plan first-quarter launch with JP Morgan top choice of arranger
The US CLO market welcomed four new managers in 2018, but this year the same number could be launching in just the first quarter

First European SME CLO 2.0 edges closer after warehouse tweaks
Be-Spoke Capital’s European SME CLO is nearing the finishing line, with sources indicating NatWest Markets aims to price the deal, Alhambra SME Funding 2018-1, in early December. The development comes after the CLO exceeded the warehouse’s 12-month ramp-up period

Monroe prices second new issue mid-market CLO of 2018
Monroe Capital Partners has priced its second new issue middle market CLO of the year, according to market sources

Mid market CLO league tables: GSO and Vista join the party
The US middle market CLO industry is booming with two new managers moving into this area

GSO debuts in mid market CLOs with Diamond CLO
GSO Capital Partners' Diamond CLO is for one year with the manager pricing a short-dated mid-market deal

Apollo's MidCap unit takes CLO AUM beyond $2.5 billion
MidCap Financial has taken its CLO AUM beyond $2.5 billion just 17 months after pricing its debut CLO in February 2017

Mid market CLO league tables: Ivy Hill closes in on Golub
Mid market CLO volumes this year have reached $9.4 billion - $1.04 billion more than the first half of 2017

Mid-market CLO league tables: volumes hit $6.7 billion in 2018
$6.7 billion of middle market CLO paper has priced so far in 2018, a 30.8% increased from the same period in 2017

Freshfields CLO lawyer hired by rival firm in New York
Ryan Suda, who has joined Mayer Brown as a partner, advises financial institutions, asset managers, private equity funds and hedge funds in structured finance transactions and other complex financings

Ivy Hill prices first billion-dollar mid market CLO of 2018
The Los Angeles-based firm issued its first new middle-market CLO in almost 12 months on Friday

Mid market CLO round-up: Antares leads the way as triple As price at 125bp
Although US mid-market CLOs had a slow start to the year, the last two weeks have seen heightened activity in this sector with established players such as Antares Capital, Cerberus Capital Management, Fortress Investments and Midcap Financial pricing new CLOs