Global CLO league tables - January 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - January 2020 YTD

US CRE CLO growth spurt encourages Europeans
The US CRE CLO market hit a record $19.2 billion in 2019 and sources say that a first ever European deal will be issued this year. They cite the growing commercial mortgage direct lending market on the continent as laying the foundations for a European CRE CLO.

GSO aims to place US CLOs in Europe
GSO Capital Partners has launched a manager entity named Blackstone/GSO CLO Management LLC in an effort to sell US CLOs into Europe.

CLOs at a glance: Lightning strikes twice with static shocks

Sound Point adds third new CLO in first 10 months of European issuance
Sound Point Capital Management is keeping up the pace on its European CLO platform with its third new issue since its launch in April last year

Carlyle revives amortising euro CLO with upsized capital structure
Carlyle Group has reset a CLO in the middle of its amortisation period, giving a new lease of life to the deal named Carlye GMS Euro CLO 2015-1

Short-dated deals are Man's best friend, but long-awaited GLG CLO prices wide
Man GLG has priced its first new issue CLO in Europe since September 2018

Global CLO round-up: welcome back, give us a (refi) wave
Tighter corporate credit spreads means new issue volumes are down, but it makes a decent entry point for new CLO managers to price deals and also makes refinancing CLOs imperative

Apollo saves 20bp on triple A print by going for short-dated euro CLO reset
Apollo Global Management yesterday priced a short two-year euro CLO reset with the triple A notes printing 20 basis points tighter of regular way CLOs, according to market sources

Accunia returns to CLO primary market with first new issue since 2018
Accunia yesterday returned to the CLO primary market with its first new issue since June 2018

Partners takes advantage of single B tranche rally with European CLO pricing
Partners Group priced its latest new issue CLO in Europe yesterday as single B spreads fell to their tightest point since year-end 2018

CLO pipeline: a refi of nine cuts time (and margins)
Nine US CLO managers are preparing to refinance one of their CLOs to lower financing costs

Investcorp prices Europe's first new issue CLO of 2020 amid high demand
Investcorp Credit Management yesterday brought Europe’s first new issue CLO of the year, with pricing levels showing a big spread tightening across rating bands

Global CLO b-wic round-up: equity, equity everywhere, but trading volumes sink
For the second week in a row, over $230 million of US CLO equity went on sale and multiple control equity positions were listed in the CLO secondary market

Licence and registration: loan spreads get speeding ticket as CLOs play catch-up
The sharp rally in corporate credit means that CLO spreads are going to have to rapidly follow suit with investors informing Creditflux that US CLO triple As should be pricing at 105-107 basis points to make deal economics work. 

Apollo goes short-dated route for forthcoming European CLO reset
Apollo Global Management is marketing a short reset of its 2014 CLO named ALME Loan Funding III - but price talk is inside a new issue of similar tenor

Experienced CLO PM Bowers launches asset manager with private equity backing
Jonathan Bowers, a former partner and senior portfolio manager at CVC Credit Partners, has established an asset manager in partnership with a private equity firm

CLO pipeline: Medalist ascends podium as new issues pace themselves
CLO managers are biding their time before re-entering the primary CLO market, but this week Investcorp Credit Management, KKR and Medalist Partners are marketing new issue US CLOs

Sound Point's breakneck pace of CLO issuance continues with third euro deal
Sound Point Capital Management has hit the ground running in Europe and has one of the fastest rates of issuance on the continent, with sources saying the manager is premarketing its third new issue CLO there

GLG prepares euro CLO comeback with rare short-dated deal
Man GLG is set to tap the European new issue CLO market for the first time since September 2018

Partners targets January pricing date for new European CLO
Partners Group is marketing a new issue European CLO, known as Penta CLO 7, via Goldman Sachs

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO equity returns in big way as four control positions hit the market
Over $230 million of US CLO equity went on sale last week via bid lists, the first time these assets have made their way to the secondary market in 2020. It also marks the most US CLO equity listed in a week since at least 2018, according to CLO-i

Deutsche Bank's global CLO head moves to big US manager
The head of Deutsche Bank's global CLO business has left after working at the firm for 16 years, with sources indicating he has taken a buy-side structuring job at one of the most prolific issuers in the business

Investcorp lines up new CLOs on both sides of the Atlantic
Investcorp Credit Management is gearing up to price new issue CLOs in both the US and Europe, according to market sources