Zais CLO management figurehead leaves after nearly a decade
Zais's leveraged finance business head has parted ways with the firm

Three control CLO equity positions hit market with another to follow
Three anchor US CLO equity positions were listed on the secondary market yesterday in what was a busy day for investors

US CLO traders leave Barclays ahead of move to another bank
Two CLO trading specialists have left Barclays and are headed for another dealer

Cineworld buys ticket for DIP facility with chapter 11 filing
Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court For The Southern District Of Texas on Wednesday, less than a month after the UK-based cinema operator announced Chapter 11 was among the options it was considering to “achieve its restructuring objectives”

CLO x-rays reveal chapter 11-diagnosed borrower
18 CLO managers hold $380.2 million debt of medical imaging and non-destructive testing product provider Carestream Health, which on Tuesday filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Court for the District of Delaware. The firm entered into a restructuring support agreement to slash its debt by around $470 million

Widening asset/liability gulf will hurt CLOs: Barclays
A mismatch between CLO asset / liability rate risk is increasing in the US as more leveraged loan issuers opt for one-month pay frequency, Barclays credit strategists have found

Euro risk retention becomes must-have feature for US CLOs
For the past four years, risk retention-compliant US CLOs have been viewed as a luxury. But today issuers see a clear advantage to putting skin in the game

Mid market CLO league tables: KeyBank notches first new issue credit
Managers priced one new issue and one reset in the mid market CLO space in June for a total of $603.1 million, the lowest monthly figure since January when $590 million was priced

Bluerock and WhiteStar unveil CLO interval fund
Bluerock has partnered with CLO specialist WhiteStar Asset Management to launch an interval fund, named Bluerock High Income Institutional Credit Fund, focused on CLO tranche investing

Manager selection stakes are heightening as CLO pain points intensify: Barclays
CLOs’ slump in market value and piling of distressed assets have made differentiation between managers much more acute on key metrics, regionally and by vintage, according to Barclays credit strategists

Revlon spares no blushes for CLO managers in filing for Chapter 11
Troubled lender Revlon Consumer Products filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy late Wednesday night. The default is likely to have a weighty impact on the CLO market 

Nuveen hires former CSAM official for CLO investor relations role
Nuveen has hired an experienced official to its client portfolio management team in New York

Oaktree prints new US CLO while Deerpath resets mid-market deal
The US CLO market has added to its June transaction tally, with Oaktree Capital pricing a new issue while Deerpath Capital Management reset a 2018 vintage mid-market deal

Antares hires bank's US CLO structuring head
Antares Capital has hired an experienced figure to structure its own CLOs and work on other financings. This follows Redding Ridge making a similar hire this month

US CLO manager moves into Europe with Jefferies picking up arranger mandate
A US CLO manager is plotting to expand across to Europe, adding to the region's growing CLO manager base. The firm will assign its US CLO portfolio managers with global duties, while a partner in London becomes a regional PM 

Envision exchange leaves some lenders sick, but CSAM finds prevention is better than cure
Envision Healthcare’s distressed debt exchange has rocked the CLO market, with over $1.68 billion of the firm’s loans held by US CLOs. But some of the largest managers have avoided the name completely 

Sound Point promotes duo to lead US CLOs as veteran PM steps down
Sound Point has allocated responsibility for the US loan and CLO platforms to the pair as lead portfolio managers

Mid market CLO league tables: Arranger base grows as bumper day boosts issuance
Managers priced $3.4 billion of mid market CLO paper priced last month, the second busiest month of the year behind February and the third straight month new issues and resets made up 100% of issuance

Two more seasoned CLOs poised to switch to Sofr based on issuance trigger
CBAM 2018-6 has joined Greywolf III-R and IV-R as another pre-2022 US CLO to switch its benchmark rate from three-month Libor to three-month Sofr after the market hit the same issuance trigger

Antares upsizes billion-dollar CLO in third-largest primary transaction of 2022
Antares Capital reset its 2018-2 CLO via Deutsche Bank on Thursday, in the third-largest primary market transaction of the year at $1.06 billion

Octagon prints largest CLO in over two and a half years
Octagon Credit Investors priced a $610.2 million CLO on Thursday, its largest new issue deal since October 2018

Former US CLO portfolio manager lands at BTIG
A former Pretium and Crescent CLO portfolio manager has landed at BTIG as managing director within the firm’s fixed income credit division

Further details emerge of new Invesco US CLO management leadership team
New details have emerged of the new leadership team on Invesco's CLO management platform, with sources confirming that Elizabeth Clark and Ian Gilbertson have both been promoted to lead portfolio managers across the firm's US CLO franchise

US CLO manager closes oversubscribed captive equity fund
Post Advisory Group has closed a CLO equity fund after raising $146 million against its target of $120 million