Four-year CLOs return to Europe as CBAM makes breakthrough
Citi returns to the European CLO market after a six month hiatus, while CBAM delivers Europe's first four-year CLO post covid

Investcorp completes second largest European CLO since March sell-off
Investcorp has upsized its latest European CLO since marketing, with the manager pricing a €419.6 million transaction

Euro CLO primary spreads hit new tights as BlackRock prices first 2020 deal
European primary CLO spreads have finally begun to tighten, as BlackRock today printed triple A notes on BlackRock CLO X at Euribor plus 120 basis points

CLO triple As expected to tighten to low 120s as CVC markets European deal
CVC Credit Partners is marketing a European CLO with triple As guided at Euribor plus 120 basis points to 125bp

BlackRock plans first European CLO of 2020
Barclays has begun marketing its second European CLO in September with the bank arranging a deal for a large asset manager

Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers

Voya prices first new issue US CLO of 2020
Voya Alternative Asset Management priced its first US new issue CLO of the year on Friday

Fortress digests CraftWorks bankruptcy
CraftWorks Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday, with Fortress Investments holding all of the Tennessee restaurant operator's first lien debt - of which over half is in middle market CLOs. The New York-based firm has submitted a “stalking horse” bid to buy CraftWorks' assets

Crossover hits widest print since September, 70bp back from the tights
iTraxx Crossover has surged 19bp wider today, according to IHS Markit, in a sixth successive session of coronavirus driven sell-off that takes the index to 273bp – 70bp wide of the post-crisis tight print it reached in early January

Activists sign up to narrowly tailored event protocol
The International Swaps & Derivatives Association has signed up 1,298 parties, including nine reference dealers, to a protocol aimed at preventing narrowly tailored credit events (NTCEs).

CIFC prices US CLO reset following streak of seven consecutive new issues
CIFC Asset Management yesterday took a break from its new issue CLO streak to price its first reset of 2019 via Goldman Sachs

US CLO round-up: summer blues don’t weigh on the issuance parade
Summer is shining on US CLOs as $3.8 billion worth of activity entered the market last week. The flow brought four new deals (including one middle market deal), one reset and two refinancings.

Global CLO league tables at a glance - April 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glace - April 2019 YTD

Oaktree plants US CLO with fixed rate junior triple-A notes
Oaktree Capital Management priced its second new issue US CLO of 2019, less than a month after printing Oaktree CLO 2019-1

Mezz spreads come in as Barings issues second US CLO in 2019
Barings finds a warming US CLO market

Ares plans $509.6 million CLO reset with JP Morgan
Ares Management is preparing to price a $509.6 million CLO reset this week, a deal which should see the west coast become only the second to price four CLO transactions in 2019 after Octagon Credit Investors

THL prices two CLOs in a single day, including first middle market-backed deal
THL Credit Advisors left a $914.65 million mark on the CLO market on Friday by pricing two new issue deals, including its first transaction backed by middle market assets

THL prepares $505 million CLO alongside Natixis
THL Credit is looking to issue a new CLO via Natixis named THL Credit Wind River 2019-1

CLO refi spreads shift wider as Apollo reworks 2016 deal
The US CLO refinancing market has moved drastically wider over this month, suggesting that the CLO term curve is flattening out

Rallye races towards over 50s club in CDS as Astaldi faces Crossover index ejection
Rallye, the parent company of supermarket chain Casino Guichard-Perrachon and a former fellow-constituent of credit default swap index iTraxx Crossover, has surged wider to near 50 points up front in five-year CDS trading

Debut manager prices first ever mid-market CLO backed entirely by software loans
Chicago-based Vista Credit Opportunities entered the mid-market CLO arena on Friday, pricing a first-of-its-kind deal backed enterprise software loans

THL Credit issues its first new CLO of 2018 with triple As at 106.55bp
THL Credit Advisors priced its first CLO transaction of 2018 on Friday, issuing a new deal named THL Credit Wind River 2018-1

Chicago-based manager plans first CLO of the year
A Chicago-based manager has hired Morgan Stanley to arrange its first CLO of the year, following 11 deals in 2017

Nassau prices its third US CLO in $513.6 million deal
Nassau Credit has issued its third new CLO and its second to price via Natixis

M&G launches 'first of kind' multi-sector impact debt fund
M&G Investments has today launched a multisector positive impact private debt fund, which it claims is the first of its kind by a mainstream manager