What August slowdown? Blackstone prices new CLO in Europe
Blackstone prints new European CLO with triple-A spreads at 135bps via BNP

Apollo prices first CLO seen in Europe in a week
Apollo broke the August quiet in Europe with the first CLO seen in a week in the region 

Apollo prints latest CLO in Redding Ridge series
Senior spreads held steady as Apollo prices its second US BSL CLO of the year under the Redding Ridge name

Apollo picks up two hires from Bank of America
Investment bankers Tomasz Gruszka and Murad Khaled have joined Apollo and an affiliate from Bank of America

Nuveen hires CLO veteran from Apollo
An Apollo managing director is joining Nuveen in August to be the head of CLO capital markets and structuring 

Redding Ridge sets new European triple-B tight with latest CLO
Apollo priced another new European CLO at the end of last week via their Redding Ridge affiliate – its fourth of 2024

Apollo affiliate prices first triple-A rated aviation ABS since 9/11
Apollo-affiliate PK AirFinance has closed the market’s first AAA-rated aviation ABS public issuance since the Great Financial Crisis

Atlas SP keeps it in the family for CLO arranging debut
Apollo affiliate Atlas SP has made its lead arranger debut, taking the reins on refinancing a CLO managed by fellow Apollo affiliate Redding Ridge

Atlas SP poised to join CLO arranger ranks
Atlas SP is readying to enter the CLO arranging business, with the New York-based origination platform, which was formed out of the former Credit Suisse Securitized Products business, understood to be working on a forthcoming reset

Carlyle direct lending origination head jumps to Apollo
The head of origination and sponsor coverage for Carlyle’s direct lending business has joined Apollo, becoming the latest in a string of executives exiting the alternative asset manager

2021 vintage CLO gets a reset and a third name
Apollo’s Redding Ridge Asset Management on Thursday priced a reset of a US BSL CLO whose names include RR 29, RRX 3 and Gulf Stream Meridian 3

Guggenheim closes USD 1.2bn private credit vehicle
Guggenheim Investments has closed a USD 1.2bn levered private credit vehicle backed by Apollo

2022-vintage Apollo European CLO gets mezz-only refi
With four 2022-vintage CLOs being reworked in a single day, the anticipated boom in European reset and refinancing issuance kicked off in earnest on Friday

Apollo brings European CLO triple As down to 141
The European primary market hit a new year-to-date tight just in advance of the long weekend, when Apollo affiliate Redding Ridge lowered the triple-A benchmark to 141bps over Euribor

Apollo raises funds for special sits
Apollo Management has pushed ahead with its plans to raise funds for the second iteration of its credit special situations fund

Apollo launches new BDC backed by Mubadala
Apollo has created a new private BDC that will invest money from Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company, in addition to other institutional investors.

Apollo redeems ALME Loan Funding V CLO via BWIC
Apollo is the seller of the EUR 237m BWIC that was due on 16 January as it liquidated its ALME Loan Funding V CLO

Diameter joins the 2022 reset club
New York-based Diameter Capital Partners priced a reset of its largest CLO to date last week, with the debt tranches on the 2022-vintage Diameter Capital CLO 4 upsized from USD 445m to 451.25

Redding Ridge reset marks Scotia's first lead arranger role
Scotiabank continued its push into the CLO arranging business yesterday, arranging its first CLO as the sole structuring agent and lead placement agent

Redding Ridge adds to tally with US new issue CLO
It has been a slow week for the CLO market but Redding Ridge has started the ball rolling again with its fourth US deal this year

MidCap goes minimalist for mid-market deal
MidCap Financial, an Apollo affiliate, has priced a new middle market CLO called MFIC Bethesda CLO 1

ICG taps Apollo partner as head of US liquid credit
The new head of US liquid credit has been tasked with helping grow ICG's US credit business

Diameter prices fifth US CLO
Diameter Capital Partners returned to the primary CLO market yesterday with its first US CLO this year

European CLO triple As join the sub-170bp club as Redding Ridge deal prints
Redding Ridge printed the largest (and tightest) European CLO this year in a €499.35 million transactions priced by BNP Paribas

BlueBay prints new US CLO via RBC and Apollo
BlueBay Asset Management priced a new US CLO on Wednesday at $398.25 million