Retailer jumps on PE rumours while markets stay rooted in Jackson Hole
UK supermarket retailer Sainsbury's has been a notable mover in credit this week, as the wider market waits tentatively on Friday's Jackson Hole movement in the US and fund outflows signal nervousness about US Federal Reserve policy and escalating turmoil in Afghanistan

Lingering covid vies with inflation as top credit threat, finds BofA
Covid-19 lingering is catching up with inflation as credit investors' number one worry, Bank of America's August survey has found. The picture for central bank purchases is bullish, but strategists see industrial and bank senior bonds as shorts for contrarians over the summer

Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD

Standard Chartered picks up another European CLO credit with Napier Park new issue
Standard Chartered emerged as a co-placement agent on its fourth CLO in July, with the bank investing in Napier Park’s latest new issue Henley CLO V

Rising stars will fuel double B boom, says BofA
A rising star cycle is underway and adds to a bullish outlook for double B credits with company results pointing to an ‘epic V-shaped recovery’ in high yield revenues and earnings, say Bank of America credit strategists

BlackRock new issue takes Euro CLO 2021 volume to €1.5 billion
BlackRock has taken its European 2021 European CLO issuance to close to €1.5 billion, after pricing its latest new issue BlackRock European CLO XI

CLO pipeline: four US and two European managers prepare first 2021 CLOs
The CLO market is set to carry on roaring with the pipeline as full as ever despite the summer slowdown just around the corner  

Green QE is future, says BofA
Last week's European Central Bank strategy review confirmed that climate change policies will dictate the shape of future asset purchases, say Bank of America credit strategists

Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows add €2 billion to weekly Euro CLO issuance
Nearly €2 billion of European CLO issuance priced this week, with Blackstone, Chenavari, CIFC and Five Arrows adding to Napier Park’s reset earlier in the week

CLO pipeline: Man GLG resurfaces from six-year absence as deals exiting call-lock fill pipeline
CLO spreads have leaked out in recent weeks but deal economics are still favourable, encouraging managers to come back to the primary market for the first time this year

Investcorp takes 2021 European CLO issuance to €2 billion
Investcorp has taken its 2021 European CLO volume to over €2 billion with its latest new issue, Harvest XXVI

HPS reworks Bardin Hill European CLO for first time since acquisition
HPS Investment Partners has refinanced a 2019 European CLO formerly managed by Bardin Hill

Euro refi CLO triple As hit 78bp - 1bp wider than 5yr deal in March
Cairn Capital partially refinanced its 2018 European CLO Cairn CLO X, highlighting the widening trend in triple As but tightening in mezz refi notes

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

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

Napier Park slashes Euro CLO costs on post-covid deal reset
Napier Park has cut over 90 basis points off the cost of CLO financing on a post-covid deal, Henley CLO II

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

Single Bs and periphery in favour as European HY market deleverages: BofA
Single B, periphery, leisure, retail and services high yield credit all look to offer value, amid indications the European market is deleveraging quicker than expected

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

BofA and State Street divided over CLO convertibles
A split has emerged in the approach between the two big buyers of triple A-rated CLO tranches that are structured as loans

Loan triple-A buyer adds option to convert, but keeps faith in CLOs
A CLO triple A investor has developed its CLO investment strategy by embedding an option that allows the bank to convert its CLO exposure from loan to note format

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Spire slashes 70bp off CLO funding costs as it upsizes 2020 deal in reset
The London-based manager worked with Bank of America to reset the deal late Friday, upsizing the CLO to €447.7million from €425 million at issuance

BofA and Citi unveil multi-dealer platform for CLOs and loans
Bank of America and Citi have joined forces with plans for a multi-dealer CLO and loan platform which will cover trading, data and analytics