KKR refinances its first static deal for a second time
KKR, working with Citi as the arranger, refinanced its KKR Static CLO 1 this week. It’s the second refi of the US BSL deal and comes nearly a year to the day after the first refinancing

UBS refinances Covid-era US CLO
UBS Asset Management has printed a refinancing of Madison Park Funding XLV, a short-dated US BSL CLO that debuted back in July 2020

US CLO primary roundup - 2 October 2024
The end of the third quarter provided no relief for overworked CLO bankers, with at least four US deals pricing yesterday

Blue Owl kicks off October with a two-for-one US CLO deals
Blue Owl has priced a new private credit CLO as well as refinanced a 2018-vintage BSL CLO 

CLO round-up: sentiment improves as multiple breakthrough transactions emerge
New CLO formation slowed this week in the US, while Europe had its second zero-issuance week of the quarter. But there were three major developments: the first CLO refi in15 months, a major investor's first entry into a CLO at the reset stage, and the first middle market CLO arranged by Goldman Sachs.

Sycamore Tree's CLO volumes climb to $1.6 billion after largest new issue
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners priced its fourth - and largest - CLO since the firm's inception on Thursday, growing its deals under management to $1.6 billion

CIFC's seventh new US CLO of year takes tally to $3.3 billion
CIFC Asset Management priced its seventh US CLO of the year on Friday, bringing its yearly issuance volumes to $3.3 billion and climbing to fifth on the manager leaderboard

Bain and Carlyle print five-year reinvestment CLOs with senior triple As at 210bp
Bain Capital Credit and Carlyle Group each issued a new five-year reinvestment CLO on Thursday, with each deal's senior triple A tranche paying a coupon of 210 basis points over Sofr

US CLO triple As end week at 154bp as Napier Park and Rockford Tower print deals
Napier Park Global and Rockford Tower Capital Management priced new CLOs on Friday, with each manager printing their triple A notes at 154 basis points over Sofr

US extends broad hit on credit but German resi giant faces personal dramas
Travel related companies are among those hit hardest in credit as the Tuesday sell off deepens with the US trading session, but investors in German real estate company Adler have endured a torrid day as they digest its third quarter results

First Eagle prints fourth middle market CLO
First Eagle Investment Management has priced its fourth and largest middle market CLO, bringing its mid market deals under management to $1.5 billion

German real estate firm on bull run as rest of high yield treads water
Adler Real Estate has extended its spread tightening run on Monday morning, making it one of the biggest improvers of the past week in an otherwise flattish high yield credit market

Global CLO trading lab: Equity supply spikes as investors go long
CLO equity returned to the secondary market in a big way last week, after a month of very little visibility, with $118.3 million of US CLO and €44.9 million of European CLO subordinated notes on sale

It's all relative: IG index drifts wide of 50bp as European CLO triple Bs outperform
US investment grade credit has been an underperformer in the last few weeks with CDX IG trading north of 50 basis points again. But European CLO triple Bs are looking strong while there is a stronger bid for two- to three-year paper in the US

Audax brings CLO haul to $2 billion with largest deal so far
Audax Management Company issued a fifth middle market CLO on Thursday, bringing its deals under management to $2 billion

It's all relative: CLO spreads explore record tights as credit indices hit impasse
CLO spreads are grinding to ever tighter levels, despite a flattish week for credit in which corporate credit indices have ended up more or less unchanged

Curve steepeners gain ground with inflation in focus
Credit performance this week has done little for market-directional trading strategies, but one area gaining traction beneath headline numbers is the steepening of curves

Ares sets CLO triple A benchmark with senior notes at 170bp
Ares Management has priced a new three-year reinvestment US CLO at the tight end of price guidance, setting new benchmark levels in the process

Three-year US CLOs set to tighten as large managers market deals
US CLO triple A spreads are tightening sharply this week with market sources indicating that benchmark levels for three-year reinvestment deals have gone into the 180s

Who’s got the moves US: oil and gas leads renaissance for US CLO managers
The US leveraged loan market has held steady over the last two weeks. After rising to just below 87 of par in mid-April, the S&P LSTA US Leveraged Loan index closed at 85.75 to start this week

OC health check: another two CLOs fail senior OC tests
Two senior overcollateralisation test failures number among 26 deals joining the list this week of CLOs breaching their OC tests in April, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i.

Who's got the moves US: Carlyle leads as $3.7 billion of CLO loans recover
CLOs were exposed to $833.4 million worth of paper in the 10 term loans that suffered the largest price falls last week. But CLOs also had exposure to $3.67 billion of loans that recovered the most over the seven days.

You wait 12 years for loan dislocation and $1 trillion comes along all at once
The waiting is over — distressed debt managers have the best entry point in about a dozen years as the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index plunged to 80 in just two weeks.

Licence and registration: loan spreads get speeding ticket as CLOs play catch-up
The sharp rally in corporate credit means that CLO spreads are going to have to rapidly follow suit with investors informing Creditflux that US CLO triple As should be pricing at 105-107 basis points to make deal economics work. 

Global mid market CLO league tables: Golub and Natixis lead by a distance
Golub Capital and Natixis dominated the mid market CLO space in 2019 in the manager and arranger league tables, respectively