CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

CLOs are here to help with infrastructure expansion
Issuers of CLOs backed by infrastructure debt are looking forward to a boom as investors turn to infrastructure projects as a way out of the pandemic slump

Monroe issues first CLO since Bonaccord equity deal
Monroe Capital has priced its first new CLO in nine months, issuing a $455 million middle market transaction named Monroe Capital MML CLO XI

Weekly refi volume passes $5 billion as five CLOs price
Another $2.06 billion of CLO refinancings priced in the US on Friday, bringing the weekly total to over $5 billion

CLO pipeline: Carlyle eyes fourth new issue in two months but refis and resets dominate
Manager focus has shifted to reworking vintage CLOs to lower funding costs in a much tighter market, with the new issue US market having slowed

DWS wraps fourth infra CLO
DWS Group has issued its fourth CLO backed by infrastructure credits

CLO refi spree heats up with $1.84 billion in one day
Another $1.84 billion of CLO paper refinanced on Friday as five managers - PineBridge Investments, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Mackay Shields, Steele Creek and MJX Asset Management - took to the primary market to cut their funding costs

Blackstone adds single B tranche in US CLO reset
Blackstone Credit teamed up with BNP Paribas on Friday to reset its 2017 vintage CLO known as Thayer Park

Vibrant prints first CLO since rebranding
Vibrant Capital Partners, the New York-manager formerly known as DFG Investment Advisers, returned to the CLO primary market on Thursday with its first new issue since rebranding

Ares, Brigade and Redding Ridge issue CLO resets totalling $1.61 billion
$1.61 billion in CLO resets issued on Wednesday as new deals emerged from Ares Management, Brigade Capital Management and Redding Ridge Asset Management

Global CLO league tables - January 2021
Global CLO league tables - January 2021 YTD

Carlyle scores tightest CLO triple A print since 2018
Carlyle Group has priced a new record triple A spread on its latest deal at just 114 basis points over Libor, a full 5bp inside previous market tights

KKR prices three-year reinvestment CLO via BNP Paribas
KKR Credit teamed up with BNP Paribas on Thursday to print a $402.3 million three-year reinvestment CLO named KKR 29

PGIM prints first fixed-rate CLO refi of 2021
PGIM has priced the first single-tranche fixed-note CLO refinancing of 2021, a type of CLO primary transaction popularised in 2020 following the coronavirus outbreak

Global 2020 CLO league tables
Global 2020 CLO league tables 

Redding Ridge prices its largest CLO of 2020 with first five-year deal post-covid
Redding Ridge Asset Management priced its sixth - and largest - new CLO of 2020 on Friday, naming the $520.71 million transaction RR 12

Axa IM returns to US new issue CLO market after one-year break
Axa Investment Managers has returned to the new issue CLO market in the US after pricing the $406.25 million Allegro CLO XII via BNP Paribas

CBAM prices first five-year CLO since March sell off
CBAM has priced a second US CLO post-covid and its first with a five-year reinvestment period

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

Global CLO league tables - October 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - October 2020 YTD

Napier Park prices five-year reinvestment CLO via BNP Paribas
Napier Park Global has teamed up with BNP Paribas to issue a new five-year reinvestment CLO

Monroe saves 18bp with first ever mid market CLO repricing
Monroe Capital has shaved just over 18 basis points off a 2018 middle market CLO named Monroe Capital MML CLO VII with a repricing

CLO Census results: Citi comes out top but several banks make big leaps
Citi has been voted top in five out of the eight primary CLO categories as part of the 2020 Creditflux CLO Census, but BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Natixis are among the banks that have made huge strides compared to last year

Symphony issues first CLO since integration with Nuveen
Symphony Asset Management has priced its first new issue CLO in nine months, and its first since announcing the integration of its leveraged finance business with affiliate Nuveen

Faith in structures has been rewarded
CLOs have been resilient against covid-19 fallout, said speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium last month. But there’s always room to improve and 3.0 deals may add ESG and bullet tranches