US BSL CLO rankings – April 2026
Carlyle and Elmwood powered to the top of our year-to-date US BSL CLO manager issuance rankings for April, rising ahead of Blackstone and Bain, while Bank of America maintained its lead in the arranger standings ahead of JPMorgan and Citi

US CLO AAAs fall to 120bps as end of week sees USD 2bn worth of new issues price
Onex priced its latest deal with its triple As at 120bps above SOFR, while there were also half-billion-dollar new issues from Neuberger Berman, Ares and UBS

Trimaran prices first new CLO for 2026
Trimaran CAVU 2026-1 was valued at USD 404.6m, and follows two CLO repricings from the manager in January

Latest European Napier Park CLO breaches 130bp level as Investcorp also prices new issue
The European CLO market kicked off the week with two new issues pricing through Bank of America, totalling just over EUR 900m

Permira prices fourth European CLO for 2026, second new issue
The manager paired with Bank of America to price its EUR 403.3m Providus CLO XV

European CLO equity returns under pressure—BofA report
A challenging situation in the loan market means CLO managers may have to reinvest recoveries at unfavourable cash prices

European CLO rankings – March 2026
Palmer Square was the leader in European CLO issuance for the first three months of the year, according to Creditflux’s latest issuance rankings, closely followed by CVC, Blackstone, Apollo and Permira, while it was equally close in the arranger standings, with Bank of America just in front of JPMorgan

US BSL CLO rankings – March 2026
Bain emerged as the top US BSL CLO issuer across the first three months of 2026, pricing just under USD 4bn worth of transactions according to Creditflux data, while amongst arrangers, Bank of America claimed an imposing 17.64% market share for Q1

Trinitas prices second 2024-vintage US CLO reset in quick succession
Bank of America arranged Monday’s USD 458m reworking of Trinitas CLO XXVII, which follows the manager’s repricing of Trinitas CLO XXVIII at the end of March

GoldenTree prices new US CLO as overall issuance slows
GoldenTree issued an upsized USD 602.1m US BSL CLO via Bank of America on Tuesday, even as the overall market experiences a significant slowdown in the overall volume of new issuance activity as managers take stock amidst an increasingly volatile overall market backdrop

Bain prices BSL and private credit CLOs in same day
The manager’s new US issue, along with its reset of a 2018-vintage private credit CLO, totalled just under USD 1.06bn in value

Elmwood, Garnet price similarly-structured US BSL CLOs
Elmwood CLO 48 was arranged by Citi, while Garnet maintained its impressive rate of issuance with its sixth deal in just 10 months

European CLO rankings – February 2026
Apollo’s Redding Ridge leads narrowly from Permira in Creditflux’s year-to-date European CLO issuance rankings to the end of February

New US CLOs see mezz widening even as issuance maintains steady pace
Over USD 2.4bn of new CLO paper priced on Tuesday and Wednesday as Blackstone, Nuveen, Voya, Sixth Street and KKR all printed new BSL transactions

AI risk is number one worry for credit investors – BofA
An AI bubble is the top concern for 23% of high-grade credit investors, a new Bank of America report has found

New loan shop Mountain Point becomes 2026’s first debut US CLO manager
The recently-launched credit manager priced its first CLO via Bank of America as a USD 507m BSL issue

BofA commits USD 25bn to fund private credit deals, taps head of private credit
The bank is pulling the capital from its balance sheet, following in JPMorgan’s footsteps to offer corporate clients another debt financing option

US CLO AAAs tighten to 12-month tight as Oak Hill Advisors prices new deal at 113bps
The mark is the tightest since the same manager priced OHA Credit Funding 20 with triple As at 110bps over the base rate on 28 February last year

New Euro CLOs price from CIFC, Investcorp, and CQS
CIFC and Investcorp have issued new European CLOs with triple-A paper priced at 120bps over Euribor, while CQS priced its first new Euro deal of the year on the same day as its first US issue 

BSP is latest to issue US CLO AAAs at 115bps, as New Mountain and CQS also price new deals
Benefit Street Partners issued its second new US CLO of the year, with Bank of America arranging the USD 502.6m transaction

Onex, AXA, Five Arrows and Serone print new Euro deals
Onex priced its first new European CLO issue of 2026, one of four new Euro CLOs that issued toward the close of last week

More than USD 2bn of new US BSL CLO paper prices on a busy Thursday
Blackstone issued a sizeable USD 710m BSL CLO that matched the current triple-A market tight for new US issues, on a busy Thursday that also saw fresh BSL deals price from Aristotle Pacific, MidOcean, and Elmwood

Investcorp, Garnet, UBS, and CTM price new US CLOs
New US BSL CLO issues this week from Investcorp, Garnet, UBS, and CTM Asset Management totalled USD 1.86bn in value

KKR prices second deal in programmatic private credit CLO strategy
The transaction is the second in the manager’s series of private credit CLO issues under the KIMM (KKR Institutional Middle Market CLO) banner, following the pricing of KIMM CLO I in October 2024