BNP Paribas splits European secondary ABS and CLO leadership as it hires from rival
BNP Paribas has hired an experienced ABS trader, while promoting its senior CLO trader to a leadership role 

Tikehau adds to triple-A discovery with first European CLO of year
Tikehau Capital on Tuesday night priced its first European CLO transaction of the year, via BNP Paribas

Relief rally extends despite US and EU sending mixed signals on recession
Growth and inflation data on Friday has added impetus for the European Central Bank to maintain a hawkish stance at its September meeting, despite US signals suggesting that economy is in recession

Redding Ridge prices fourth US new issue CLO of 2022
Redding Ridge Asset Management, the CLO manager arm of Apollo Global Management, returned to the primary CLO market on Friday

Blackstone prints Euro CLO triple As at tight 170bp
Blackstone priced its latest European CLO yesterday with triple As pricing at least 50bp tighter than current market levels

Credit Rendezvous: Investors try to avoid suplex city as recession and inflation reform tag-team
Credit investors getting ready to lock up against that familiar 1970s pairing of inflation and recession. But the hard-hitting tag team has picked up some new moves, causing floating rate outperformance to give way to underperformance; synthetic credit to outperform cash; and CLO terms curves to reshape into barely recognisable positions

Euro double As and US triple As offer best value in CLOs: BNP Paribas
Secondary market double A rated tranches offer the best relative value in European CLOs’ capital structures, while US triple As in primary starting to look attractive, according to BNP Paribas credit strategists

Weekly US CLO volume tops $3 billion as AGL prices
AGL Credit Management brought weekly US CLO issuance over $3 billion on Thursday by printing a new issue deal via BNP Paribas

KopenTech launches digital peer-to-peer CLO trading platform
Los Angeles-based FinTech platform Kopentech has launched a digital peer-to-peer trading platform for CLOs

PGIM scores tightest CLO triple A print in two weeks
PGIM priced a new CLO named Dryden 108 on Thursday, scoring the market's tightest triple A print in over two weeks

Points up front: Who is going into the Creditflux interview room?
The Creditflux CLO Symposium brought together 620 market participants from across the globe, and they had one question on their lips: what’s going on in the Creditflux interview room?

We’ll get through this awkward patch
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As

Wide yields mean high times again for corporate hybrids
Prolonged disruption in financial markets has painted an ever-bleaker picture for credit fund returns and flows in 2022

European CLO trading head leaves BNP for new credit fund manager
An experienced European structured credit trader is joining a recently launched long-short credit fund manager 

Think of the arb, say US CLO panelists after big loan drop
Far from being a cause for alarm, falling loan prices have brought a welcome opportunity in new CLO issuance for managers and investors, according to speakers at the Creditflux Symposium in London today

Euro CLO league tables: PGIM and Jefferies lead as Euribor caps come back in fashion
April was the quietest month of the year in the European CLO market with only €2 billion pricing across four new issues and one reset

Macro drivers set to give lift to CDS tranche trading
Credit index tranches look to be on course for a busy year, with volumes robust so far in 2022, despite key relative value trading themes having not delivered so far

European CLO managers aim for bigger bond bucket fix
European CLO managers are eyeing larger fixed rate bond allocations amid dislocation and lower loan supply. This has, in turn, led to an increase in fixed rate tranches

Nuveen new CLO brings triple As at market tights of 142bp
Nuveen Asset Management priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing its triple A notes at the market tights of 142 basis points over Sofr

PGIM opts for two-year reinvestment on Euro CLO with triple As at 110bp
BNP Paribas arranged the €401.3 million deal, which features a shorter than traditional reinvestment and non-call period 

Octagon prints largest CLO in over two and a half years
Octagon Credit Investors priced a $610.2 million CLO on Thursday, its largest new issue deal since October 2018

142bp emerges as triple A benchmark spread as Blackstone prices new CLO
Blackstone Credit priced a new CLO on Wednesday, placing the senior triple A notes at Sofr plus 142 basis points

WhiteStar gets off the mark in Europe with reset of 2020 CLO
WhiteStar Asset Management has reset a 2020 vintage former MacKay Shields European CLO, slashing triple As down to 117 basis points over Euribor and adding additional equity

LCH extends credit index option product to buy side
BNP Paribas and JP Morgan are the first banks to offer client clearing of credit index options through LCH CDSClear

KKR prices CLO with unusual reinvestment-call lock profile
KKR has priced a rare CLO with a short reinvestment window but long non-call period