Mid-market CLO rankings – October 2025
Creditflux's year-to-date mid-market CLO rankings to the end of October shows Golub continuing to lead the way from Antares, Apollo and BlackRock/HPS

Concerns growing about potential turn in the credit cycle – Goldman 2026 outlook
Investors should monitor signs of late-cycle behaviours, with the possibility that pressure on leverage ratios may result in credit ratings downgrades, Goldman Sachs Asset Management said in its 2026 investment outlook

MidOcean gears up for second CLO equity fund
EXCLUSIVE: The investment manager previously raised more than USD 300m for its debut CLO Equity Fund I in 2024

US BSL CLO rankings – October 2025
Blackstone, Carlyle and CIFC head the Creditflux US BSL manager rankings for October, as 2025 turns the corner into the final quarter

BlackRock, Onex issue at tighter end of recent deals with new US CLO prints
Both Magnetite LII and OCP CLO 2025-48 issued with weighted costs of debt under SOFR plus 150bps

Barings opts for short duration with latest new US CLO
Barings CLO 2025-VII priced as a half-billion-dollar deal on Wednesday via Wells Fargo

CLO managers find AI risk spreading far and wide
CLO managers are finding that the ramifications of AI are central to their business. Will the technology have a marginal effect on the companies to which they have lent money, or could it wreak havoc?

Zable returns to CLOs at Guggenheim, citing its experience and brand
CLO veteran Robert Zable always planned to return to the market. He’s now taking the reins at Guggenheim Investments to build out the manager’s CLO and liquid loan efforts

‘Scale really matters in the CLO business’
Investing Corner with David Saitowitz, head of US liquid credit at ICG

CLO equity funds feel pain from arb and credit jitters
It’s been a difficult year for closed-end CLO equity funds, with share prices in the handful of such funds in North America way down, currently hovering at or near 52-week lows

News in brief
AI helps Anthelion escape worst of First Brands fallout

CLOs at a glance – October 2025
Our list of recent CLO pricings globally

2025 debut managers Polen and Garnet price latest CLOs
Polen priced its second offering, while Garnet printed its fourth CLO in six months worth more than a half-billion dollars  

BNP Paribas arranges trio of new US CLOs
The deals from Oak Hill Advisors, Trinitas and MidOcean totalled just over USD 1.2bn

Trio of new US CLOs worth USD 1.6bn price from CIFC, UBS and TCW
CIFC’s print equalled the current triple A tight of SOFR plus 119bps, while UBS’s Madison Park Funding LXXV and TCW CLO 2025-2 issued their equivalent paper at 121bps and 124bps over the base rate

Global CLO law firm rankings – Q3 2025
Creditflux’s latest global CLO law firm league tables sees A&O Shearman sliding down the rankings following some high-profile departures, while in the arranger tables, Paul Hastings has opened up its lead over second-placed Cadwalader to a mammoth USD 100bn

KKR resets US CLO for first time since 2017
The 12-year-old KKR Financial CLO 2013-1 recapitalised its debt tranches to the tune of around USD 243.5m in the repricing

BlackRock launches securitised fund investing up to 30% in CLOs
The BGF Securitised Fund has a remit to invest in AAA to BBB tranches of European and US CLOs 

Octaura appoints new CFO as it prepares for next growth phase
The electronic trading platform named former JPMorgan Chase managing director Cristina Kim as its new Chief Financial Officer

Prepayment headwinds should diminish after CLO purchase reduction – Apollo
The firm also said that it is preaching risk reduction after previously noting on its last earnings call that CLO spreads had tightened to unsustainable levels

GoldenTree matches Oak Hill Advisors with sub-120bp US print
The manager has priced its latest new US CLO as an upsized USD 753m issue, with the deal unusually employing three arranger banks – Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley

Onex matches short-dated US BSL tight with new Aegis CLO
The manager printed its latest short-dated US CLO, OCP Aegis CLO 2025-47, in a USD 409.2m transaction via Bank of America on Monday

Laura Coady takes the helm of Blackstone's global CLOs
Coady, who will also serve as head of liquid credit, steps into the role as the firm’s former head of capital formation, Jane Lee departs

US spreads grind below 120 bps with new Oak Hill CLO
Standard-duration US CLO triple As have cracked 120bps for the first time since the spike in spreads caused by Liberation Day, with Oak Hill Advisors' OHA Credit Funding 23 printing its top-of-stack paper at SOFR plus 119bps

First Brands and Tricolor show due diligence matters – Crescent President Chris Wright
PODCAST: There are lots of mixed signals currently in the market, which is creating uncertainty, according to Chris Wright, president of Crescent Capital Group, on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee