US levfin community raises USD 4.3m in annual melanoma research fundraiser
The networking evening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City brought together members of the leveraged finance community across banks, private credit firms, law firms, LPs, private equity shops and more

Golub prices USD 625m private credit CLO
Santander acted as the arranger for Golub Capital Partners CLO 92(M), which issued its triple A paper at SOFR plus 146bps

Guggenheim resets three-year-old private credit CLO
The triple As priced at SOFR plus 163bps, narrowing 87bps from their existing spread level

US private credit CLO performance shows resilience—S&P
A new report from S&P Global Ratings shows US private credit CLO performance continued to show resilience in April, despite negative headlines

Blackstone’s big effort on private credit
As the world’s largest CLO manager by AUM, Blackstone is a prolific issuer, but rarely has it priced such large volumes in a single day

Blackstone prices billion-dollar static BCRED CLO
The deal follows a similar, but smaller, transaction from the manager in March

CLO equity and private credit offer comparable returns—Texas TRS
EXCLUSIVE: The US institutional investor giant approaches credit investments opportunistically and as it seeks to achieve a 7% return target for its overall portfolio, CIO Jase Auby told Creditflux

PGIM prices new private credit CLO
PGIM has priced the latest iteration of its Windhill series of private credit CLOs, with the USD 400.5m transaction issuing through BNP Paribas

Seward & Kissel hires structured credit head as CLOs, private funds converge
Taha Khan joins from Milbank to build out a structured credit practice that will advise on CLOs as well as complex fund finance solutions like CFOs and rated note feeders

US private credit CLO rankings – April 2026
Four months into the year, Golub leads Blackstone and Blue Owl in our private credit CLO manager issuance league tables. On the arranger side, BNP Paribas continues to head Scotiabank, with Natixis moving in front of SocGen to occupy the final podium slot

Golub shakes up leadership with co-CEOs, co-Presidents appointments
The alternative credit manager will have three co-presidents after promoting Spyro Alexopoulos and hiring two new executives

Mapping the future together
Credit market players are getting on with business, looking through the conflict in the Persian Gulf, and dealing with the resultant rise in inflation, all while hurriedly adapting to AI, which many are labelling the greatest transformative technology in our lifetimes

Comvest prints first CLO in seven months
The private credit manager priced Comvest Credit 2026-1 CLO on Monday, with its triple As issuing at SOFR plus 165bps

Abry Private Debt acquires USD 330m private credit portfolio
Abry partnered with Coller Capital on the credit secondaries transaction

Bank loan growth driven by lending to private credit and other funds—S&P
Total loan growth in the US banking system was driven by lending to nonbank financial institutions like investment funds from 2024 to 2025, the ratings agency found

Hayfin names Goldman Sachs veteran as head of investments
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Marsh has been hired to the newly created role

Barings prices static private credit CLO
The triple A paper for the deal cleared at SOFR plus 145bps

BlackRock issues new static private credit CLO
Scotiabank served as the arranger for the USD 536m BlackRock DLF 2026-C CLO

Credit issuance pipeline continues to build despite temporary pause—KBRA
Issuance will be ready to resume once the market stabilises, according to Gordon Kerr, European macro strategist at KBRA

Apogem reprices 2019-vintage private credit CLO for third time
Apogem Capital has repriced a 2019-vintage private credit CLO for the third time, with the USD 348m reset coming two years after the CLO was last reset in March 2024

Guggenheim’s Zable warns on rapid pace of AI disruption
EXCLUSIVE: Most managers are not prepared for the pace of change in the software loan space, Guggenheim CLO chief Rob Zable said at the Creditflux CLO Symposium

CLO community turns out in force for 18th annual Creditflux Symposium and Awards
EXCLUSIVE: Award winners celebrated, while the stars of the CLO industry came out in force to share predictions, tips and deal making opportunities

Cautious optimism prevails at second day of Creditflux CLO Symposium
EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of delegates gathered at the Chancery Rosewood in London to talk software, shipping, and the shifting dynamics in the global CLO market

Iran War to increase corporate default rates globally — IACPM Survey
Though the credit market is absorbing new leveraged loan issuance amid geopolitical uncertainty, credit managers expect the war to drive a rise in defaults

US private credit CLO rankings – March 2026
Blackstone led Creditflux's rankings for private credit CLO issuance in 1Q 2026, pricing around USD 340m more than established market leader Golub, while BNP Paribas raced ahead in the arranger tables, accounting for more than a quarter of all deals issued