Credit Fundraising: Private credit and CLO captive equity feature strongly as closes mount up
Credit funds have made a fair start to the fourth quarter, although the $21 billion raised during October is down substantially on September’s impressive record for 2021

Resets return as Oaktree reworks and upsizes 2020 European CLO
Oaktree Capital Management has become the latest manager to rework its 2020 European CLO

Carlyle refis triple and single A notes of 2013 CLO
Carlyle Group returned to the CLO primary market on Friday to refinance two tranches of Carlyle GMS CLO 2013-1 on Friday

Cross Ocean targets up to $1 billion for European special situations fund
Cross Ocean Partners is seeking up to $1 billion for its latest European special situations fund

CSAM teams up with Nomura on new issue CLO for first time
Credit Suisse Asset Management has completed its third new CLO of 2021 and its first ever new deal to print via Nomura

CLO refi paper worth $1.61 billion hits market
Five managers have printed transactions worth a combined $1.61 billion over the last few days, in a CLO refinancing bonanza 

European CLO repricing volume passes €14bn as ICG resets 2019 deal
 Intermediate Capital Group becomes the latest CLO manager to reset a deal, having reworked its 2019 vintage St Paul’s CLO X

GoldenTree joins 2021's top five biggest CLOs with $707.1 million deal
GoldenTree Asset Management priced a $707.1 million CLO reset on Wedesday, catapulting the deal straight into the top five largest broadly syndicated loan-backed CLO transactions by volume for 2021

Euro CLO league tables: Refi return spurs European CLOs towards record volumes
A record shattering month as refi wave continues

Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - February 2021 YTD

European CLO mezz drifts wider as Sculptor and GLG reset and refi
Sculptor has reset its inaugural European CLO, Sculptor European CLO I, via Bank of America

Euro CLO league tables: Europe sees a refi-val in repricing
Older deals get a fresh start in the new year

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

Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - November 2020 YTD

Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year

Compression plays out as HY and European CLO double Bs outperform
Investment grade and high yield credit spreads have tightened in sync with each other this week, but CDS and CLOs alike underline that the big theme over the past month has been compression between investment grade and high yield

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

US CLO round-up: New Mountain gives a peek at better times
CLO primary issuance has produced healthy volume over the last few weeks with new issue paper totalling $7.9 billion since 21 September.

Lenders aren’t as adventurous, but they realise if they don’t act now, 2020 will be a lost year
 

Bankers, private equity firms and corporate lenders are all looking for new ways of doing business

Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD
Global CLO league tables - August 2020 YTD

Banks tighten asset approval terms for CLO warehouses
Managers have raised concerns over tighter, lender-friendly terms in new-look US CLO warehouses as banks gradually reopen these lending facilities

CLOs at a glance: CLO managers are quite partial to a refi
There was a wave of CLO partial refinancing in August as equity investors capitalised on lower interest rates to cut the coupon on fixed rate tranches

Points up front: How much do I owe you?
Payment systems in the credit industry had a bad August

Credit fundraising: distressed keeps in favour but CLO ETFs emerge
Five months into global lockdown and distressed debt funds are still proving popular, but several managers have found success pitching other types of credit strategies

Managers weigh up matters of principal
CLO managers that were able to avoid OC traps made double-digit equity distributions in Q2, despite the headwinds. But these firms tended not to be among those that built the most par