CLO refi wave continues as CIFC and Oaktree join the fun
CIFC Asset Management and Oaktree Capital Management have become the latest managers to join the CLO refinancing craze, each teaming up with Morgan Stanley to cut the funding costs on 2019-vintage deals

CIFC reset cuts US CLO top tranche costs but shows double B resistance
CIFC Asset Management has increased a 2019 CLO deal size and cut its debt cost with a reset, but the double B minus tranche reflects the market's recent resistance on pricing  

CLO pipeline: busy year, so let's take time to reset
The US CLO market this year has been dominated by new issues and refinancings, but now is the time of the reset judging by this week’s pipeline

CIFC's 102bp triple As pull CLO average tighter
CIFC Asset Management priced its second CLO of the year on Friday with the triple A notes coming in at 102 basis points over Libor

CLO pipeline: US adds deals at frenetic pace as Europe catches breath after record start
US CLO investors have numerous deals to consider with 13 new issues and 15 repricings being prepared to flood the market in the coming days

CIFC resets amortising CLO with $38.3 million upsize
CIFC Asset Management teamed up with Citi on Tuesday to reset a CLO in its amortisation period

Issuer goes from debutant to zero in one year as PM leaves and CIFC swoops for sole CLO
A US CLO manager has gone from debuting in 2019 to having no CLOs under management as CIFC takes over its one deal

CIFC upsizes US CLO by $100 million before pricing
CIFC Asset Management teamed up with Royal Bank of Canada to print its first new CLO of 2021 on Friday. The deal, named CIFC Funding 2021-1, was upsized by $100 million before pricing

CLO pipeline: 2020 absentees join new issue rush
The CLO pipeline is growing by the minute as managers prepare their first new issues of the year after varying lengths out of the market

CIFC prints tightest five-year CLO post-covid by big margin
CIFC Asset Management priced its first five-year reinvestment CLO post-covid on Friday, scoring the tightest print by far among similar duration deals

It's all relative: Euro CLO mezz rallies to follow month-long IG/HY compression
European credit suffered this week with Brexit talks between the UK and the EU dragging on and both sides conceding that a trade deal is unlikely to be reached by Sunday’s deadline. But European CLO tranches have held up reasonably well with mezzanine spreads tightening by almost 13% in December

Relative value has shifted towards CLO double Bs, conference hears
CLO double B tranches are on course for significant spread tightening, according to participants on day one of Creditflux's CLO Investor Summit on Thursday

OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August.

Junior triple A-double A basis narrows as CIFC prices third post-covid CLO
CIFC Asset Management on Friday became just the ninth CLO manager to issue three new US CLOs post-covid after teaming with Citi on the $498.3 million deal named CIFC Funding 2020-III

CLO pipeline: managers large, small and new ready to price in post-Labour Day surge
US managers are preparing a wave of new issue CLOs in the coming days, as the usual post-Labour Day pricing surge comes to fruition even in this most unusual of years

Cut! Cineworld’s cancelled merger boosts CLO OCs
Investors in Cineworld’s $1.9 billion term loan breathed a sigh of relief in July after the UK cinema chain cancelled its merger with Canadian firm Cineplex, with holders repaid in full, according to market sources

Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year

Fieldwood slips into second bankruptcy as CLOs hold $314 million
CLO managers hold $314.5 million of oil and gas drilling company Fieldwood Energy, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday for the second time in two years 

Investors spy opportunities in CLOs subject to negative rating action
Rating agency downgrades come into play in Thursday's secondary market for CLOs, with a $15 million b-wic at 10am New York time highlighting how double and single B spreads have moved in opposite directions through July

CIFC prices new CLO tight of market with $50 million upsize
CIFC Asset Management on Monday priced its second new CLO following the coronavirus outbreak - and upsized the deal by $50 million before pricing

CLO managers push for deeper triple C buckets
CLO managers in the US have launched a concerted effort for greater flexibility on their triple C test limits since the coronavirus-triggered sell off in March

CLO pipeline: break's over - time to print deals
The CLO market has taken a slight pause after the independence holiday in the US last weekend, meaning the CLO pipeline includes a backlog

Double B CLOs on downgrade watch up for grabs as market eyes tightening
CLO double B spread averages tightened 24.44 basis points on Wednesday, ending a 22-day widening streak. On Thursday, a b-wic of seven CLO double Bs goes live at 11am New York time and should clarify if spreads will tighten further

CIFC and RBC plan first new CLO partnership for over five and a half years
CIFC is marketing CIFC Funding 2020-II, the firm's second new CLO since the coronavirus pandemic began, and is working with RBC to arrange the deal

CLO double A-single A basis falls to just 10bp in 2.0 record
The basis between US CLO double As and single As has fallen to just 10 basis points – which is the lowest it has been since the financial crisis in 2008, according to Creditflux data