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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GoldenTree US CLO reset sees AAAs tighten in to 115bps
GoldenTree’s triple-A spread has the market approaching the tights last seen 12 months ago, before growing supply and US tariff policies saw spreads widen significantly 

Silver Point and OFS add to new US CLO issuance with inaugural 2026 prints
Bank of America was the arranger for Silver Point’s half-billion-dollar offering, while OFS paired with Goldman Sachs for its first new CLO in 10  months

Onex and CIFC price tightest resets of 2026 so far
Onex 2021-23 was arranged via CIBC as a USD 372m offering, while CIFC engaged Bank of America for its reworking of CIFC 2023-III

US CLO pipeline in Q1 gears for strong start
ANALYSIS: The market is expecting healthy first quarter CLO issuance that will likely match the high bar set last year 

SEC clarification encourages banks to invest in CLOs
ANALYSIS: US banks could comprise a larger portion of triple-A tranche demand in both the US and European CLO markets and help bring stability

Antares leaves it late to price first new private credit CLO of the year
As CLO managers start to wind down for the year, Antares has priced its first new mid-market issue of 2025, teaming with Bank of America to issue Antares CLO 2025-1

AGL and Blue Owl issue new US CLOs
As issuance slows for the year, the managers priced deals via BNP Paribas and Bank of America

Interest in BB CLOs could decline despite outperformance – BofA
Cumulative returns for CLO double Bs have exceeded even CLO equity over the last five years and over a 10-year time frame

Bank of America Research projects record year for US CLO issuance
The bank forecasts some USD 600bn in deals expected to hit the market, more than 19% ahead of this year’s issuance total, while it also sees at least eight debut managers coming to market in the US in 2026