Barings moves toward second Euro private credit CLO as Blackstone, Apollo mull initial deals
EXCLUSIVE: The firm that cracked the European private credit CLO market open last year is working on its second such deal, while Blackstone and Apollo eye a market entry

KKR prices second new Euro issue for the year
The deal saw its triple As clear at Euribor plus 133bps

Spain’s Arcano markets second European CLO following March market debut
The short-dated EUR 406m issue is being arranged by Jefferies

Palmer Square resets 2021-vintage Euro CLO
The EUR 388m reset of the four-year-old CLO added almost EUR 50m to the debt tranches and some EUR 14m of additional equity

Carlyle prices new Euro CLO at 134
The manager’s second new European CLO of the year follows a short-dated deal at the end of May

Oaktree markets two-year-old Euro reset
The reworking of Arbour CLO XII is expected to price next week via Goldman Sachs

European CLO Rankings – May 2025
Apollo is the leading manager in our latest monthly European CLO rankings, while BNP Paribas took the top spot amongst arrangers

KKR resets 2019-vintage Euro deal with increased cost of funding
Friday's print was the second repricing of Avoca CLO XX, following a partial refi in 2021

Blackstone prices tightest Euro AAAs in more than 10 weeks
Ringsend Park CLO lowered the tariff-era benchmark to Euribor plus 131bps

Neuberger Berman restarts post-Barcelona Euro activity with new issue
The manager returned to European primary market issuance for the first time in 14 months with its latest print this week

Blackstone hires Laura Coady from Jefferies to head CLO business
The alternative asset manager has poached Jefferies's top CLO banker to become its global head of CLOs and head its European liquid credit strategies

CLOs to maintain strong performance, offer attractive carry opportunities – Goldman Sachs
The asset class offers an appealing investment given underlying fundamentals and narrowing IG spreads, according to an investment outlook briefing from the firm this week

Squarepoint makes moves to debut as CLO manager
EXCLUSIVE: Global investment firm has been interviewing candidates to launch a CLO business 

Elmwood hires senior Barclays banker for European CLO push
Michael Clarke has joined the firm this week alongside new Head of European Credit Aly Hirji

European Commission proposes securitisation revamp
Formal proposals aim to fuel the European economy by facilitating securitisation

Investors optimistic, bullish on European structured credit – BofA, King Street, Blackstone, Federated Hermes
PODCAST: Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee catches up with Bank of America's Alex Batchvarov, King Street's Young Choi, Blackstone's Alex Leonard and Federated Hermes' Andrew Lennox at the Global ABS conference in Barcelona

Investors say CLO market is hot but caution remains
Optimism is returning to the CLO market in both the US and Europe and momentum is rapidly rebuilding, as investors acclimatise to the policy vagaries of the second Trump administration

‘Opportunities will present themselves’
Investor's Corner with Kathy Sutherland, GoldenTree CEO

News in brief
US credit returns fail to reflect risk

GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

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

Global investors pile into European CLOs as consensus on US ‘exceptionalism’ erodes
European credit, including CLOs and other ABS products, is attracting international investor interest as geopolitical uncertainty prompts a reach for geographic diversity

Sona issues mezz-only refi of debut deal
Citi arranged the EUR 111.6m repricing of Sona Fios CLO 1, which will see the refinanced coupons ‘step up' in December 2025 back to their pre-refi spread levels

Signal prices second new CLO for the year
Signal Capital Partners has printed its fifth new European issue and its second of the year

Benefit Street Partners raises USD 500m for captive US CLO equity fund
BSP will use the capital to fund as many as 20 US CLOs during the next four years