Global CLO league tables - October 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - October 2022 YTD

Creditflux CLO Census results: JP Morgan claims clean sweep of US CLO arranging categories
Following the close of this year’s census, JP Morgan was a quadruple winners in the US, with results declaring it the best at syndicating, structuring and providing both the best access to loans and the best warehouse service

CLOs can weather a short recession, but maybe not a long one, conference hears
The US economy is likely to enter a recession in the first half of 2023, attendees at IMN's ABS East conference heard on Tuesday. While the severity of the downturn is unknown despite the Federal Reserve aiming for a 'soft landing', CLOs are well positioned to weather the storm - as long as the recession is contained in a relatively short period

Fortress goes for longer tenor as CLO spreads widen
Fortress Investment Group has priced a new US CLO with a four-year reinvestment period and pricing at the wider end of recent issues

US CLO league tables: BofA’s big month opens gap with Citi but Palmer Square closes in on Blackstone
After a quiet August, the US CLO market returned to what is the new normal (or new, new normal depending on the timeframe you're using). Managers priced $11.3 billion of US CLO paper last month, extending a trend

Global CLO league tables - September YTD
Global CLO league tables - September YTD

Warning signs flash as B3 share of loans reaches record level
Credit analysts are sounding the alarm as the portion of the loan and high yield universe rated B3 or B- surged to a record level in the third quarter

US loan index falls below 92 to almost wipe out gains since July
The S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index sank to an average bid of 91.92 cents by Monday, down by two points in as many weeks, wiping out almost all the gains seen in the late-summer market rally

Sixth Street prints first new CLO in over a year
Sixth Street returned to the CLO primary market on Wednesday, bringing its first transaction of the year and its first new issue deal in 12 months

Fidelity places new CLO triple As at 195bp amid dispersion
Fidelity Investments priced a new CLO on Tuesday, placing the triple A notes at 195 basis points over Sofr

BofA prices CLOs for CarVal and Voya
Bank of America's CLO issuance volumes have passed $1 billion for the week after new deals for Voya Investment Management and CarVal CLO Management on Tuesday

Wamco goes for novel call/reinvestment structure as it prices US CLO
Western Asset Management Company priced a CLO via Bank of America on Monday, growing its CLOs under management to $1.4 billion

US CLO league tables: BofA holds off Citi for another month
$6.4 billion of US CLO new issues priced in August, down $11.2 billion from August last year but $1.1 billion more than August 2019

Global CLO league tables - August 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - August YTD

New Barings CLO scores first sub-200bp triple A print since July
Barings broke the US CLO market's issuance drought on Thursday, pricing the first primary transaction of the week and scoring the tightest debt execution since July in the process

CLO inflows could hit $60 billion as knock on from student loan forgiveness, says BofA
US president Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness programme could lead up to $60 billion flowing into the CLO market, according to research from BofA

Three defaults mean CLO OC ratios to decline by 17bp in September, says BofA
CLO overcollateralisation ratios are set to decline by 17 basis points in September following the defaults of Cineworld, Endo and Carestream health, according to a research paper from Bank of America

US CLO pipeline: Dispersion comes to fore, while Capital Four goes static
The CLO market is heating up once again after the summer lull and pricing has tightened, with at least three US CLO managers looking to match or even best Palmer Square Capital Management’s triple A print of 200 basis points

US CLO spreads tighten as Palmer Square sets benchmark
Palmer Square Capital Management priced a new CLO via Bank of America on Tuesday, scoring the market's tightest debt execution in over a month

Elmwood becomes second largest US CLO issuer of 2022
Elmwood Asset Management on Friday became the second largest issuer of US CLOs in 2022 on Friday by pricing its seventh transaction of the year, Elmwood CLO 19

Marathon confirms senior-level CLO hire in New York
Marathon Asset Management has confirmed the arrival of a CLO specialist as managing director and senior portfolio manager in its corporate credit group

Symphony 36 proves music to ears as US CLO spreads strike a chord
Nuveen Asset Management priced Symphony CLO 36 on Tuesday to provide another signal that US CLO spreads are moving tighter

US banks' CLO holdings rose $10bn in Q2, but demand is set to drop: BofA
CLO holdings by US banks increased by around $10 billion over the second quarter this year. But BofA anticipates subdued demand for the rest of the year due to high loan growth, slowdown in deposit growth and increased capital requirements

US CLO pipeline: Blackstone goes for 10 with tightest triple As of August
Blackstone Credit is marketing its latest CLO, Storm King Park, which will be the manager’s tenth US new issue of the year

US CLO triple C buckets will increase by up to 0.7% in August: BofA
US CLO triple-C baskets are expected to fill up by as much as 0.7% in August trustee reports, according to strategists at Bank of America, with the pace of triple C downgrades picking up in July to reverse an 18-month trend of stable or declining triple C concentrations