Blackstone’s Jane Lee to leave the firm
EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone's head of CLO capital formation who spearheaded its CLO issuance has resigned to take time off

European CLO rankings – August 2025
CVC heads Apollo in the latest update to Creditflux's European CLO manager rankings, while Jefferies continues to sit atop the arranger league tables

Mizuho EMEA names former BNP Paribas exec as CIB head
Matthew Ponsonby will become head of Mizuho EMEA’s corporate and investment bank, and president and CEO of Mizuho International on 1 October

Arini and Permira upsize with latest new Euro CLOs
The two deals saw comparable spreads, with the triple As for both clearing at Euribor plus 130bps

Pseudo-trading plan language becoming increasingly formalised for CLOs – Dealscribe
The new report " new CLO basket is born" says that the development makes aggregation period language “nearly identical” to a traditional trading plan

Investcorp is latest to price sub-130 Euro issue
Investcorp’s third new Euro CLO issued on Friday as a EUR 405.8m transaction via BNP Paribas, taking the manager’s overall European issuance for this year to almost EUR 2.14bn

KKR’s Avoca XXX resets at current Euro tight
The deal matches KKR's own triple A tight of Euribor plus 128bps, set with the reset of Avoca CLO XXIX at the end of August

BlueBay prices twelfth CLO, foreshadows four more CLOs over the next year
RBC BlueBay Asset Management has priced its seventh European CLO, with HSBC scoring its second sole arranger credit since its return to the European arranging business

CLO market braces for First Brands fallout
Auto part supplier's leveraged loan has been bid at 40 cents on the dollar, boding ill for recoveries and a hit to equity returns, as First Brands hurtles toward a restructuring

AlbaCore reworks 2024-vintage Euro CLO
The capital structure remained unchanged in the EUR 382m offering – the manager’s second deal of the year

EXCLUSIVE: Palmer Square to launch European versions of its US CLO ETFs next year
Exclusive: Palmer Square will roll out European versions of PSQO and PSQA next year

Blackstone resets benchmark-setting 2022 Euro CLO
Blackstone has reworked Otranto Park CLO, one of the tightest 2022-vintage European CLOs, in a EUR 411.4m transaction via Citi

GoldenTree and Apollo set new mid-mezz tights with latest Euro deals
A new GoldenTree issue priced its single A paper at Euribor plus 200bps, while Apollo lowered the benchmark for triple Bs with a reset of its first European CLO

Royal London upsizes inaugural deal as it joins European CLO manager fraternity
The issue, arranged by Goldman Sachs, priced with a relatively small premium in the triple As

Fidelity reworks Euro CLO, 18 months after reissue
The manager reset Fidelity Grand Harbour 2022-1 on Wednesday via JPMorgan

Aegon issues first Euro CLO in almost a year
The manager has teamed with Deutsche Bank to price its first European deal in 11 months, in the form of a new EUR 454m issue dubbed North Westerly X ESG CLO

Equity funds keep CLO market active even as arb thins
CLO managers are raising equity capital to back their own issuance, and the surge is transforming the market

‘We like managers that are honest about the risks’
Investor's Corner with Elena Rinaldi, portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management

How it took four years to close a loophole — and throw European CLOs into chaos
The fraught relationship between the EU regulator and the growing CLO market again came into focus last month, when the European Banking Authority surprised the market by issuing a response to a question posted four years previously regarding risk retention

News in brief
Stress in good quality companies opens up opportunities, says Oak Hill Advisors' Alan Schrager

CLOs at a glance – August 2025
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

Trinitas prints second new Euro CLO of 2025
Both the triple A and mezz tranches priced toward the tighter end of the current market, with the triple Bs issuing at the narrowest level for a standard-duration Euro CLO since late August

Palmer Square lists its European CLO ETF on the London Stock Exchange
The Palmer Square EUR CLO Senior Debt Index UCITS ETF will now be available to UK-based institutional investors

Bridgepoint prices new Euro BBs at sub-500
Bridgepoint's second new European CLO of 2025 recorded a post-March tight for new European CLO BB spreads, of Euribor plus 490bps

Trio of Euro resets reinforce tightening trend as CVC revisits 175 AAs
CVC and Onex both printed resets with triple As at 130, while Sculptor upsized its latest print to a target par of EUR 450m