CIFC upsizes April CLO and accommodates double B tightening
CIFC Asset Management has upsized its CLO named CIFC Funding 2021-III by $104.2 million between pricing and closing

Key counterparties make charitable donation as part of new CIFC CLO
CIFC Asset Management’s new US CLO, CIFC Funding 2021-IV, is linked to support for racial justice initiatives, officials working on the transaction have told Creditflux

CLO pipeline: Five out, five in as market digests new issuance wave
Five new issue US CLOs priced from last week’s pipeline, but five more have replaced them in this week's edition of our pipeline report

Bain and CIFC score sub-100bp CLO prints with one-year reinvestment deals
Bain Capital Credit and CIFC Asset Management returned to the primary market on Thursday to refinance 2017 CLOs, each scoring triple A prints tight of 100 basis points

CIFC completes third new US CLO of 2021
CIFC Asset Management priced its third new issue CLO of the year on Wednesday, teaming up with Barclays to print CIFC Funding 2021-III

The Last Tranche with CIFC's Huang: CLO valuations are often based on unreliable data
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Creditflux's Hugh Minch and CIFC's Jay Huang discuss the outlook for the CLO market

CLO pipeline: Deutsche Bank and Carlson hit comeback trail
The CLO market is preparing to be very active in the coming weeks, as the issuance slow-down is set to be in the rear view mirror

CLO heavy hitters push $1.5 billion refi paper into market
Another $1.5 billion CLO refi paper has hit the market after Allstate, Columbia Management, CIFC Asset Management and Credit Suisse Asset Management priced cost-cutting deals

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