Euro CLO league tables: Refi return spurs European CLOs towards record volumes
A record shattering month as refi wave continues

Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD

It's all relative: CLOs march tighter as macro traders open positive CDS skews
Credit default swaps are back near where they started the year after giving up their early-February gains amid a rise in government bonds. CDS curves steepened over the past month and macro hedging has left indices trading with positive skews. But CLOs paint a calmer picture in which spreads have inched tighter  

Bain features triple B discount in third-tightest CLO post-covid
Bain Capital Credit priced its first CLO of 2021 on Monday, securing the third tightest funding costs for a five-year reinvestment deal post-covid in the process

European CLO repricings top €8 billion in 2021 as Ares and PGIM rework deals
Ares and PGIM printed two repricings of European CLOs  on Wednesday, taking year-to-date volume to €8.29 billion

Global CLO league tables - January 2021
Global CLO league tables - January 2021 YTD

US looks for stronger open after sell off
US credit is opening slightly stronger on Thursday, after its sharp Wednesday rout, prompted by Federal Reserve messaging, carried over forcefully into Asian and European markets

Global CLO b-wic round-up: junior tranches trade above par as US volumes reach $45bn
A busy week of over $1.4 billion of US CLO secondary bonds and €290 million of European CLO paper gave light to CLO spreads across the capital structure continuing their push towards pre-covid levels

Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year

Onex targets high yield bonds after bumper year of US bond issuance
Onex Credit is fundraising for Onex High Yield Bond Fund, according to SEC filings seen by Creditflux

Crossover dips below 300bp as retailers leave the basket
The removal of defaulting constituents Hema  and Matalan from iTraxx Crossover has helped take the index to its tightest prints since the start of the coronavirus sell-off

Acis CLO fights back against risk retention financier
A 2014 US CLO which was part of the acrimonious split between asset managers Acis Capital Management and Highland Capital Management has become the centre of a dispute stemming from a risk retention financing agreement signed in 2018

Natixis adds to CLO refi resurgence as it cuts funding costs for TCW
Natixis has priced the second CLO refinancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, bucking the trend by helping managers lower their funding costs despite the wider spread environment

Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios

Who’s got the moves Europe: CLO managers enjoy climb of Everest
The European S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan index enjoyed a strong month in April as it rose from 83 of par on 1 April to 89.2 by the end of the month. The index closed at 89.4 on 4 May to start the week 

CLOs process Internap bankruptcy as they hold $212 million
CLOs hold $212 million of the debt of Internap Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on on Tuesday

Global CLO b-wic round-up: that's another fine mezz you've gotten me into
European CLO investors are tripping over themselves to buy mezzanine paper in the secondary CLO market

Sprint Comms CDS races tighter on T-Mobile merger nod
Sprint Communications, a telco constituent of US high yield index CDX HY, was by far the biggest mover in CDS yesterday, after the Federal Court in New York approved the company’s proposed merger with T-Mobile US

Global CLO round-up: welcome back, give us a (refi) wave
Tighter corporate credit spreads means new issue volumes are down, but it makes a decent entry point for new CLO managers to price deals and also makes refinancing CLOs imperative

Two managers market their first ever European CLOs
Two CLO managers are in the process of marketing their inaugural European CLOs to investors, according to market sources

CLO managers suffer puncture with $85 million of Jack Cooper debt
CLO managers hold $85.8 million of exposure to auto hauler Jack Cooper Ventures, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i 

Global b-wic round-up: US CLO equity continues its surge
Last week marked the third straight week that the US CLO secondary market has seen total listings of under $600 million, but over a quarter of that was equity.

BlueMountain prices its second CLO of the month via Citi
BlueMountain Capital Management priced its 12th CLO transaction of the year yesterday and its second of the month

US CLO league tables: CSAM aces it to take top spot in new issue reshuffle
Carlyle Group now leads the CLO market on two fronts with the firm moving into top spot in the 2018 US CLO rankings, adding to its position as a market leader in Europe

US CLO league tables: new issue deals bring 2018 volumes to $140 billion
Half a year in and we’ve seen $140.7 billion worth of CLO activity in the broadly syndicated loan CLO market – just $4 billion behind H1 2017’s ground breaking volumes