BDCs find a new liquidity valve in CLO equity secondary sales
BlackRock’s listed business development company, Blackrock TCP Capital Corp, has found an alternative to directly selling its private credit assets

CLO managers invest in distressed experts in expectation of higher LME environment
EXCLUSIVE: Carlyle and BlackRock are among the CLO managers who have invested in distressed and special credits teams ahead of an expected rise in defaults and LME activity 

Euro CLOs maintain issuance through holidays as HPS and Macquarie price new deals
HPS' Aqueduct European CLO 18 printed as an upsized EUR 505.4m transaction through Jefferies, while Macquarie Asset Management's recently-completed acquisition of Spire Partners made Aurim CLO XVI the manager's first CLO pricing in Europe

European CLO ETF pipeline heats up
EXCLUSIVE: Two years after the first European CLO ETF was launched, the market is booming with more arrivals expected this year

HPS prices AAAs at 125bps for newest European CLO
HPS has priced a new European CLO via Jefferies, with RBC acting as a co-placement agent on the EUR 405m issue of Aqueduct European CLO 18

BlackRock becomes latest to issue static private credit CLO
The manager's latest print follows static private credit CLO prints in recent months from Fortress, Blackstone and Barings, as well as the manager's own BlackRock DLF IX-L CLO 2026 Static in January, which issued as an unusual single-tranche CLO

BlackRock highlights Euro CLO AAA debt opportunities in 3Q outlook
BlackRock has identified triple A-rated European CLO tranches as continuing to offer attractive opportunities in the current fixed income market, in the asset manager’s third-quarter fixed income outlook

BlackRock's latest Euro CLO prints AAAs at 126bps
BlackRock European CLO XVII printed as a EUR 405m transaction through Bank of America

BlackRock issues new static private credit CLO
Scotiabank served as the arranger for the USD 536m BlackRock DLF 2026-C CLO

CLO manager rankings by AUM – Q1 2026
Creditflux’s latest quarterly CLO manager AUM rankings see a shake-up in the top 3, with BlackRock/HPS displacing Carlyle from the final podium spot

US private credit CLO rankings – February 2026
Blackstone’s latest USD 1bn BCRED print helped it to the top of Creditflux’s year-to-date private credit CLO issuance rankings for February, ahead of Blue Owl and BlackRock/HPS. Scotiabank, meanwhile, emerged as the top arranger, with 17.8% market share

Loan ETFs see massive outflows as retail investors react to software, Iran
EXCLUSIVE: The software sell-off and Iranian conflict have rattled the retail market and led to a spike in outflows, according to Octaura data

BlackRock prices unusual single-tranche static CLO
The USD 399m deal, arranged by Morgan Stanley, was split almost evenly between a single triple A-rated loan tranche, and LP interests

Mid-market CLO rankings – full-year 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Golub extended its reign at the top on the manager tables, but BlackRock/HPS vaulted into second place ahead of Apollo, while Wells Fargo secured the arranger crown

BlackRock, Onex issue at tighter end of recent deals with new US CLO prints
Both Magnetite LII and OCP CLO 2025-48 issued with weighted costs of debt under SOFR plus 150bps

New Euro deals issue from BlackRock and Bain
The managers priced new European CLOs via Natixis and SocGen

BlackRock launches securitised fund investing up to 30% in CLOs
The BGF Securitised Fund has a remit to invest in AAA to BBB tranches of European and US CLOs 

US CLOs hit SOFR plus 120bps benchmark as BlackRock prints tight
Magnetite LI also issued particularly tight in the lower mezz, with all tranches including single Bs pricing at par

US CLO spreads grind in as Onex and BlackRock issue at 123
US CLO spreads dipped further on Wednesday, as Onex priced a new issue via Citi and BlackRock teamed with Santander to print its latest reset

End of week sees private credit CLO issuance rush
The mid-market saw a flurry of issues from Eldridge, Churchill, StepStone and BlackRock toward the end of last week, with the total value of the four deals across Thursday and Friday totalling over USD 1.5bn

The top five holdings of July’s CLO ETF launches in Europe
A round of high-profile CLO ETF launches by BlackRock, PGIM and UBS in Europe and their top holdings in July

BlackRock prices first Euro CLO since January
The reset of the three-year-old deal included some EUR 9m of additional equity

BlackRock prices tight with latest new BSL print
Magnetite 50 matched the current market tight for triple As and set a new low for double Bs

BlackRock cuts almost 74bps off funding cost in reset of 2023 CLO
The reset of Magnetite XXXVI is the latest in a series of 2023-vintage repricings from multiple managers

BlackRock issues new private credit CLO with triple As at emerging mid-160 level
BlackRock Mt. Lassen CLO XV is the manager's first new mid-market deal since July last year