2020 US CLO refi volume passes $5.4 billion as Brigade and Bain price
US CLO refinancing volume this year passed $5.4 billion yesterday as Brigade Capital and Bain Capital together refinanced over $1 billion CLO paper

PGIM refinances 2016 vintage CLO acquired from Columbia
PGIM has refinanced a 2016 vintage CLO it bought portfolio management rights for in 2018, according to market sources

Credit funds at a glance

Triple A spreads burrow deeper as GoldenTree prices $616 million CLO refi
GoldenTree Loan Management on Friday brought the largest CLO refi yet of 2020

CLO funding costs drop thanks to tighter mezz as Brigade prices US deal
Brigade Capital Management priced its latest CLO offering named Battalion CLO XV via Bank of America yesterday

CLO pipeline: a refi of nine cuts time (and margins)
Nine US CLO managers are preparing to refinance one of their CLOs to lower financing costs

Brigade set to price new US CLO today with triple As subject at 135bp
At a time when spreads are contracting, the senior triple As in Brigade Capital Management's upcoming CLO are subject at 135 basis points, some 5bp wide of the market average in 2020

BofA promotes CLO trader to managing director
A CLO trader, who has spent over 12 years at Bank of America, has been promoted to managing director in New York

CLO 2020 outlook: lower volumes predicted, but it’s not all bad news
US CLO issuance is expected to drop by roughly 20% next year, according to bank research desks. This comes after a solid 2019 in which $101 billion of new US CLOs have priced through 92 managers, as Creditflux goes to press

Redding Ridge prices new CLO almost fully ramped
Redding Ridge Asset Management opted for delayed draw double B notes yesterday with the pricing of its second new issue US CLO of 2019 and fifth new issue globally

Former structured credit co-head Messina lands on buy side
Megan Messina, former co-head of structured credit at Bank of America, has resurfaced at an asset manager three years after leaving the bank

Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD
Global CLO league tables at a glance - November 2019 YTD

GoldenTree prices new US CLO and capitalises on weaker market for junior CLO debt
GoldenTree Loan Management has priced its third new US CLO in 2019 in a transaction which appears ideally placed to capitalise on wider junior CLO spreads

Mid market CLO league tables: springing back into life after September drought
After a September hiatus, three managers returned to mid market CLOs in October to bring issuance back on track as monthly volume exceeded $1 billion for the sixth time this year

PGIM launches US CLO with unfunded double Bs
To double B or not to double B, that is the question as PGIM issues an unfunded double B-rated note as part of Dryden 80 CLO, a new issue deal which priced on Friday via Bank of America

Barings prices CLO backed by mid market loans
Barings has produced its third CLO transaction backed by loans to middle market companies

THL joins group of managers to refinance 2017 CLOs
THL Credit Advisors yesterday joined the short but growing list of managers to refinance a 2017 CLO, according to market sources

Boeing/Airbus dogfight widens spreads as WTO ruling exposes Europe's trade weaknesses
The World Trade Organisation’s go-ahead for the US to impose $7.5 billion of tariffs on imports from the EU has sent credit spreads sharply wider. And, according to latest credit research from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, it exposes Europe’s “Achilles heel”

Marble Point prices new CLO with unusual debt structure
Marble Point yesterday priced its second new CLO of 2019 via Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to market sources

CIFC becomes second CLO manager to issue five new deals in 2019
CIFC Asset Management on Friday became only the second manager to price a fifth new US CLO of 2019, according to market sources

US CLO league tables: JP Morgan narrows gap to Citi in new issues to $50 million
July saw $14.9 billion of issuance in the US CLO space with $9.4 billion of that in new issue CLOs. One of the transactions brought to the market was Whitebox Capital Management’s debut CLO, Whitebox I.

HPS scores tightest print on Friday as CLO volumes soar
HPS Investment Partners stood out from the pack on Friday with some of the tightest debt execution on a day in which a huge $2.89 billion CLO paper was brought to market in the US

GoldenTree prices second multi-arranger US CLO of 2019
GoldenTree yesterday teamed up with Wells Fargo to price its latest CLO offering named Goldentree Loan Management US CLO 5

Wells Fargo brings in head of IG credit trading
Wells Fargo has hired a head of investment grade credit trading and a credit sales official to its team in the US

Alcentra scores tightest 1.5-year US CLO spread after 2016 deal refinancing
Alcentra has refinanced a single tranche of its 2016 CLO named Shackleton 2016-IX