Soft mood music abruptly dashed as Fed and BoE rile markets
The credit market’s strong run of improvement has come to an end this week, with the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England delivering a reality check to hopes of a more dovish path forward on interest rates

Credit faces blind spot as borrowers enter higher default cycle: BNP Paribas
With short term rates outstripping nominal GDP growth, the credit cycle is entering its next and final stage – one in which corporate defaults will pick up but high quality borrowers should outperform

Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service

UK credit spreads rally for Rishi
UK credit spreads have rallied sharply on Monday with the victory of Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country’s third prime minister of the year

Deutsche hires credit strategy head from rival bank
Deutsche Bank has hired a new head to oversee European and US credit strategy

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub gains ground on Blackstone with rare euro-tranche deal
Four managers - Blue Owl, Golub, Monroe and PennantPark - priced new issue mid market CLOs in September

PGIM goes short with new three-year reinvestment CLO
PGIM priced a new CLO on Friday, opting for a shorter-dated structure with a one-year call-lock and three-year reinvestment period

Monroe prints second middle market CLO of the year
Monroe Capital Partners priced its first middle market CLO since February on Tuesday, and the largest middle market CLO in four months

AGL stands alone with 190bp CLO triple As attaching at 37% in new issue
AGL Credit Management priced a new US CLO on Friday via BNP Paribas, scoring a market-tight triple A print of 190 basis points over Sofr - without the benefit of a junior triple A tranche

US-led sell off shifts index roll technicals with key rates decisions looming
Further deterioration in global economic outlook is causing credit spreads to move back to the midpoint or wide end of their recent range, after a week of reversal from the previously more optimistic September trading run

Spreads gap wider with UK inflation adding to cocktail of concerns
Evidence of financial markets hitting a resistance point after three weeks of improvement is growing, with Monday’s bearish shift extending over into early trading Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

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