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

US private credit CLO rankings – June 2026
Sustained strong issuance through its BCRED shelf over the first sixth months of the year has seen Blackstone claim the top spot in our private credit CLO issuance rankings for H1 2026, with an 11% market share, ahead of Golub and Bain

Banks are piling into the CLO market – BSP
Despite negative headlines around the alternative credit space, banks are still supportive of private debt and the CLO market behind closed doors, according to Benefit Street Partners

European private credit CLO market sparks back to life
ANALYSIS: After a brisk start, the European private credit CLO market has stalled somewhat over the past year, but a new issue in the space and the expectation of incoming hybrid issues has breathed new life into the sector

Fidelity issues inaugural private credit CLO with half-billion-dollar print
Fidelity has priced its first private credit CLO, becoming the latest player to enter the space, following Partners Group's similar debut deal last week

New private credit CLOs print from Apollo and Churchill
Apollo's ADL CLO 3 was valued at USD 515m and issued through Citi, while Churchill paired with Bank of America to price its USD 349m MMSLF CLO-V

Golub enters European CLO market with multi-currency private credit print

The world’s largest mid-market CLO issuer by AUM has become the third manager to issue a European private credit CLO, after Barings and Ares

Partners Group makes first foray into private credit CLO issuance
The manager paired with BNP Paribas to print Partners Group Private Credit CLO 1, valued at just under USD 402m

Fortress becomes latest manager to print static private credit CLO in 2026
Fortress has become the latest manager this year to price a static private credit CLO, following the likes of Blackstone, Barings and BlackRock

US private credit CLO rankings – May 2026
Substantial BCRED issuance sees Blackstone power to the top of Creditflux's private credit CLO manager issuance rankings for May, ahead of Golub, Bain and BlackRock/HPS

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

First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

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

European credit spreads remain resilient — BlackRock
Healthy fundamentals and low default risk means that European credit spreads are showing resilience, at least for now, according to BlackRock’s latest fixed-income outlook

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