CLOs at a glance (November 2021)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

CLO managers join forces as they line up behind SFDR
A plethora of European CLO managers have teamed up with regulatory reporting provider FinDox to form a working group focused on Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), sources tell Creditflux.

Euro CLO triple As to tighten as new investors enter
CLO market participants anticipate European CLO triple As will grind tighter over the coming weeks as new buyers gobble up paper.

BlackRock resets 2020 European CLO with triple As tightening to 97bp
Bank of America arranged the €351 million BlackRock European CLO X 

Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Aug 2021 YTD

Barclays' CLO and loan strategist set to join large asset manager
A highly respected CLO strategist is taking on his first CLO buy side role

BlackRock new issue takes Euro CLO 2021 volume to €1.5 billion
BlackRock has taken its European 2021 European CLO issuance to close to €1.5 billion, after pricing its latest new issue BlackRock European CLO XI

CLO pipeline: four US and two European managers prepare first 2021 CLOs
The CLO market is set to carry on roaring with the pipeline as full as ever despite the summer slowdown just around the corner  

CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

BlackRock adds to Euro CLO deal size with reset
BlackRock has reset a 2017 vintage CLO, increasing the deal size slightly and offering a higher return on the lower part of the capital structure

BlackRock fills opening on European CLO management team
BlackRock has filled a gap ithat opened up on its European CLO portfolio management team in January  

BlackRock shaves top but widens rest of stack with Euro CLO reset
BlackRock has reset a 2016 vintage CLO, pricing the triple A tranche inside the average for new issue European deals but widening lower rated tranches from where they refinanced in 2019

Alcentra, BlackRock and CVC refi €1.5 billion of European CLO paper
Deutsche Bank arranged the transactions for BlackRock and CVC while Morgan Stanley arranged partial refinancings for three of Alcentra’s deals

European CLO spreads set to tighten as BlackRock markets refi
BlackRock is looking to partially refinance the senior-most tranches of a 2018 CLO

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

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

CLO pipeline: fixed income giants plan debut 2.0s with Morgan Stanley
Two large fixed income managers are pre-marketing debut 2.0 CLOs

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 pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years

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

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO triple As finally rally while European investors go ‘all in’
A huge supply of $731 million of US CLO triple A bonds pushed US CLO secondary volumes to just shy of $1.5 billion last week

CLO pipeline: Apollo targets fourth deal as managers line up to break 2020 ducks
Six CLO managers, five in the US and Fair Oaks Capital in Europe, are showcasing their first new issues of the year in preparation for pricing later this month. And Apollo Global Management is marketing its fourth new issue CLO (third US new issue CLO) in the last month and a half

We’ve survived before, we can do so again
$7.8 billion of CLO collateral, split evenly between the US and Europe, is in the loans that have fallen fastest in the past month. But short term CLO pain will bring opportunities for building par

Making arb work of it
In 2019, some CLO managers hoped that good timing would enable them to lock in favourable arbitrage levels, but others opted for aggressive or conservative tactics when building portfolios.