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

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

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

Blue Owl resets 2023-vintage private credit CLO, trims weighted cost of debt by more than 110bps
SMBC Nikko arranged the USD 272m repricing of Owl Rock CLO XI, which cut spreads on the deal's triple A paper by 105bps

Benefit Street Partners targets Japanese private credit, CLO investments with new hire
Franklin Templeton subsidiary Benefit Street Partners has appointed former Blue Owl MD Takeshi Yamamoto in a newly-created role

Golub upsizes with newest private credit CLO
Golub Capital Partners CLO 90(M), which priced via Mizuho as a USD 450m issue, is the manager’s sixth deal of the year and its second new mid-market transaction so far in 2026

PGIM upsizes with reset of its first private credit CLO
The USD 462m rework of Windhill CLO 1 priced its triple As at SOFR plus 155bps

Diameter prices second private credit CLO with triple As at 170bps
The manager has followed up the pricing of its inaugural private credit CLO in February with its second such deal six weeks subsequent

Hybrid BSL and private credit CLOs coming to Europe – KBRA
EXCLUSIVE: KBRA is in discussions with managers and arrangers about bringing hybrid BSL/PC CLOs to the European market to improve diversification for investors

Blackstone prices rare static private credit CLO amid challenging market conditions
Wednesday’s issue saw the pari passu triple As price at SOFR plus 128bps, reflecting the significant widening out seen in private credit CLO spreads over the past month

Bain prices BSL and private credit CLOs in same day
The manager’s new US issue, along with its reset of a 2018-vintage private credit CLO, totalled just under USD 1.06bn in value

Carlyle prices market’s first private credit CLO in two weeks
Carlyle Direct Lending CLO 2026-1 priced its senior triple A paper at SOFR plus 165bps, reflecting widening in the market since the beginning of the month

US private credit CLO rankings – February 2026
Blackstone’s latest USD 1bn BCRED print helped it to the top of Creditflux’s year-to-date private credit CLO issuance rankings for February, ahead of Blue Owl and BlackRock/HPS. Scotiabank, meanwhile, emerged as the top arranger, with 17.8% market share

Mid-market manager Kohlberg prices second CLO
Following on from the manager’s first deal in April last year, the private credit issue was valued at just under USD 451m and was arranged via Scotiabank