Mid market CLO league tables: No change up top but KKR and Silver Point enter race
The mid market CLO space welcomed two new faces to its ranks last month as Silver Point Capital and KKR priced a new issue CLO each

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

TCW resets twice-AMR refinanced 2019 CLO
TCW Asset Management has reset a 2019 CLO that it had previously refinanced twice via applicable margin reset auctions

Mid market CLO league tables: stalwarts Golub and Natixis reign supreme again
It may have taken seven months, but the mid market CLO league tables have familiar faces at the top with Golub Capital and Natixis leading the way in manager and arranger issuance, respectively

Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD

US CLO pricing lab: expensive legacy deals take priority as two-three year point on term curve tightens
The US CLO market may have gapped out in recent weeks, but expensive 2019 and covid-era CLO refis and resets are still in the money

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Mid market CLO league tables: BlackRock takes new issuance lead with unusual deal via Morgan Stanley
BlackRock became the third mid market CLO manager to price two new issues this year and in doing so took the lead from Golub Capital in mid market CLO new issue league tables

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

Mid market CLO league tables: Antares and Wells Fargo press reset to lead market
Following March's $5.87 billion, the busiest month of mid market CLO issuance since at least 2016, April felt like a quiet month for mid market CLOs with $2.26 billion pricing across three new issues, two resets and one partial refinancing

US CLO pricing lab: let’s refi like it’s 2017
The new issue US CLO market has been a slow burn over the last two weeks with only six deals being brought to the market amid wider triple A spreads. But the repricing market has been booming with today’s triple A levels still comparatively cheaper than previous vintages exiting their non-call periods

Cerberus prints second mid market CLO of 2021
Cerberus Loan Management has become only the second manager to price two middle market CLOs in 2021, having teamied up with Wells Fargo to issue the $368.1 million deal named Cerberus XXXII

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

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

Euro CLO single As and triple Bs could tighten by 10bp with CVC refi
CVC Credit Partners is looking to refinance the five most senior tranches of its 2018 European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund VII. Price talk on mezzanine tranches suggests a big shift in prevailing spreads  

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

JP Morgan prices CLO refis for Fidelity and Sound Point
JP Morgan has priced CLO refinancing deals for Fidelity Investments and Sound Point Capital Management. The two deals total $872 million in volume

Nuveen renames CLO and upsizes by $170 million following reset
Nuveen Asset Management has reset one of its 2017-vintage CLOs via Wells Fargo, upsizing the deal by $170 million in the process

AMMC and Marathon refinance CLOs due to leave reinvestment in April
Another $800 million of CLO refi paper has been absorbed by the market after American Money Management Corporation and Marathon Asset Management cut financing costs for CLOs set to leave reinvestment in April

CIFC prices tightest four-year euro CLO since covid sell-off
CIFC Asset Management priced the tightest European CLO with four years of reinvestment post-covid on Thursday, teaming up with Barclays to issue the €368.8 million deal named CIFC European Funding CLO III

Beneath the triple C: CLOs get their sneakers on as retailers run into bankruptcy
July added further relief to CLO portfolios with the slowest rate of downgrades to triple C since March. US CLO portfolios faced downgrades of $2.18 billion to triple C while European portfolios faced just €59.13 million of such downgrades

Global CLO league tables - May 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2020 YTD

US CLO league tables: light at the end of the tunnel as primary revives
May brought a rise in US CLO primary market activity with a combined $5.55 billion in new issuance for the month

Early March European CLO makes it through the sell off with 5.4% risk retention
One of the last European CLOs to price before the primary market shut down in March has disclosed the fair value of its notes post-closing, which shows that it has a reasonable 38 basis point cushion against risk retention deficiency

US CLO league tables: coronavirus brings changes in approach and new top manager
Amid a big slump in CLO primary issuance, new deals have taken focus and there are some notable changes at the top of the league tables