Palmer Square prices first CLO with Morgan Stanley
Palmer Square Capital Management has teamed up with Morgan Stanley to print a new CLO for the first time

It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally

CLO pipeline: OFS to make comeback as 2020 absentees eye new issues
As liability spreads tighten day by day, the CLO pipeline is filling fast. 2020 absentees are joining the parade as four US managers and three European managers aim to return to the new issue market after taking a break of 12 months or longer

AMMC, Marble Point and Partners Group each price US CLO refis
Three CLO managers have priced CLO refinancing transactions, with the three deals combining to a total of $1.03 billion. It brings the total volume of US refi paper in 2021 to $4.94 billion since the new year - just $180.9 million short of total post-covid refis in 2020

CLO pipeline: 2020 absentees join new issue rush
The CLO pipeline is growing by the minute as managers prepare their first new issues of the year after varying lengths out of the market

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

GSO prints static CLO with triple As at 130bp
GSO Capital Partners has priced its second static CLO amid the coronavirus pandemic, naming it Stratus Funding 2020-1

Single A CLO investors fight volatility as market widens
Two single A-rated CLO tranches appear on a b-wic due at 1pm New York time Tuesday, after investors in the volatile rating band faced another week of widening spreads

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

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

Beneath the triple C: April showers send buckets overboard
Downgrade waves rocked the CLO market in April as Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded 135 corporate borrowers to triple C or below, from ratings above that level. The downgrades put CLOs in rough waters as $41.6 billion of such loans are prevalent in US CLOs while €5.64 are moored in European CLO portfolios – affecting 5.92% of the US market and 4.37% of the European market

US CLO league tables: coronavirus brings changes in approach and new top manager
Amid a big slump in CLO primary issuance, new deals have taken focus and there are some notable changes at the top of the league tables

Global CLO league tables - April 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2020 YTD

Ares takes different approach to primary CLOs as it plans three-year US deal
The primary market for CLOs since the coronavirus escalated into a pandemic last month is evolving briskly with Ares Management planning a new US CLO with a three-year reinvestment period

US CLO league tables: $2 billion reissue fires Apollo and JP Morgan to top spots
Apollo Global Management and JP Morgan teamed up to price the largest CLO of the 2.0 era in February that helped propel both to the top of the US CLO and global CLO league tables

Zais short-dated CLO prices triple As wide of market at 141.9bp
Zais Group has gone the short-dated route for a new issue CLO, Zais CLO 14, which Goldman Sachs arranged

Zais markets short two-year CLO via Goldman Sachs
Zais Group is in the market with Goldman Sachs with its latest new issue CLO

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

First AMR auction passes smoothly with all bonds trading
The first applicable margin reset (AMR) auction took place between 8am and 10am eastern time yesterday to refinance TCW CLO 2019-1, with all five tranches clearing successfully

Deutsche AM's real estate division prepares second infra CLO
RREEF America, a subsidiary of Deutsche Asset Management that invests in commercial real estate, is readying a new securitisation backed by project finance assets named RIN II

US CLO league tables: CSAM dominates globally but Octagon takes US lead
Octagon Credit Investors clinched the top spot in the US broadly syndicated loan CLO market by a mere $129,000 from Credit Suisse Asset Management. 

KKR and FS's BDC upsizes first mid-market CLO and prices
KKR and FS Investments’ business development company, FS KKR Capital Corp, yesterday priced its new issue CLO via Citi, according to market sources

Elmwood prints $1 billion US CLO with wider double As
This is the manager’s second transaction of the year – and ever 

US CLO league tables: new issues drive volumes as Morgan Stanley and Citi occupy top two spots
Two months into 2019 and the US CLO market looks very different to previous years, as the balance of deal origination has changed

Global 2018 CLO league tables at a glance
A snapshot of the overall league tables as of 31 December 2018