Silver Point taps former Golub head of structured products for new role
Alan George joins Silver Point Capital in the newly-created position of head of credit finance and leverage solutions

USD 1bn worth of private credit CLOs price across Fortress and Eldridge issues
Fortress' FCO XXXIX featured an unusual capital structure with a USD 68m senior triple A revolver tranche included alongside the standard term note and term loan tranches, while both deals included senior-junior slits in the single As and triple Bs

Apogem prints second new CLO for the year, first since January
In addition to pricing MCF CLO 11 early in the year, the manager has also priced two mid-market CLO resets so far this year

Golub resets 2020-vintage private credit CLO for second time
CIBC was the arranger for the USD 496m reworking of Golub Capital Partners CLO 47(M)-R2, which renewed the deal on a 2Y/5Y timetable

CVC hires TPG's Sisitsky as future co-CEO as Rob Lucas plans to step back
CVC’s CEO Rob Lucas will step back from his role, to be replaced with former TPG president Todd Sisitsky and current CVC President Peter Rutland as co-CEOs, according to a company announcement

Blackstone aims to price first hybrid CLO in October
EXCLUSIVE: Blackstone is planning to price its first private credit-BSL hybrid CLO in October as an all-euro-denominated deal, according to a source familiar

AI, hybrids and staffing anxieties dominate at Dublin’s Opal conference
EXCLUSIVE: At the first Opal-hosted CLO and Private Credit Forum in Dublin, managers and investors were laser-focused on a handful of key issues

Antares prints upsized USD 850m private credit CLO
Antares CLO 2026-4 priced on Thursday through Scotiabank, with its triple As clearing at SOFR plus 145bps

Crescent pulls in capital-charge-sensitive insurers for CLO equity fund
Managing director and head of tradeable credit John Fekete told Creditflux that the cash-on-cash distributions of CLO equity look particularly attractive as private equity struggles with returning distributions to investors

Spate of new private credit CLOs issue from PennantPark, Cerberus and Jefferies Credit Partners
PennantPark CLO 13 issued on Tuesday through Scotiabank on a short-dated timetable, while Cerberus Loan Funding 54 and Jefferies Credit Partners Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 were both structured as conventional-duration 2Y/4Y deals

Sona hybrid deal opens up European PC CLO market to smaller players – KBRA
EXCLUSIVE: Sona’s market-first BSL/PC CLO could lead to smaller managers entering Europe’s fledgling private credit CLO market, says KBRA’s Gabriele Gramazio

Sona prices market-first hybrid European CLO
Sona has broken new ground in the European CLO market by becoming the first manager to price a hybrid BSL-private credit CLO, with Goldman Sachs serving as the arranger for the EUR 403.9m Sona Aclai CLO I

Eagle Point leads USD 1.3bn HoldCo loan for data center deal tied to Anthropic
The CLO specialist used its growing infrastructure credit team to provide the loan, which makes up a portion of a USD 16bn data center financing deal in Texas

Kohlberg returns to market with third private credit CLO, second of 2026
Mid-market specialist Kohlberg & Co. has priced its second new CLO of the year, with Scotiabank serving as arranger on the USD 448m issue

KKR becomes latest big-name manager to price static private credit CLO in 2026
KKR has issued the first new CLO under its Lending Partners shelf in half a decade, with the USD 624m private credit deal issuing as a non-reinvesting transaction through BNP Paribas

US private credit CLO rankings – July 2026
Golub claimed a 10% share of US private credit CLO issuance to the end of July, according to Creditflux's latest league table rankings – but Blackstone isn't far behind. It's even closer among arrangers, with Scotiabank just a hair ahead of BNP Paribas at the top of the rankings

Ares prices USD 1.2bn static private credit CLO
Ares Direct Lending CLO 9 printed via BNP Paribas with its senior triple As clearing at SOFR plus 134bps

Investor demand strongest for European PC CLOs – Golub
EXCLUSIVE: Investor demand is stronger for European private credit CLOs than any other segment of the CLO market, according to Golub Capital’s Landis Wood

Latest Ares private credit CLO sees AAAs clear at 145bps
Ivy Hill Middle Market Credit Fund XXV issued with a value of USD 403.2m and a 2Y/5Y schedule

Barings resets first European private credit CLO as reinvesting deal
The manager's inaugural 2024 static issue was reworked on a 1.5Y/4.5Y timetable, and now includes a sterling-denominated triple A tranche, with the dual-currency format establishing itself as the standard for this type of deal

BlackRock becomes latest to issue static private credit CLO
The manager's latest print follows static private credit CLO prints in recent months from Fortress, Blackstone and Barings, as well as the manager's own BlackRock DLF IX-L CLO 2026 Static in January, which issued as an unusual single-tranche CLO

Brookfield taps CLO talent pool for syndication push
Brookfield’s recruitment of CLO expert Rachel Russell reflects a growing market for syndicated private credit, in which large-scale loan transactions and risk exposures are spread across multiple lenders

News in brief
Top stories on creditflux.com: including early summer visits to Clearlake and Nearwater

The right moment to take a chance
Stephen Ketchum founded Sound Point during the global financial crisis with seed funding of USD 35m. He moved into CLOs in 2012. Today, the firm has many arms and AUM of USD 46bn

Gearing up private credit CLOs in Europe
Hybrid deals are the latest attempt to make private credit CLOs work in Europe. They aim to combine private credit and leveraged loans to create a vehicle that delivers yield and liquidity