Student loans emerge as headwind for loan market, says BofA
American graduates are poised to resume student loan repayments in August, and new research from Bank of America suggests the change could be a headwind for the loan market due to weaker consumer demand.

Mid market league tables: Golub and Natixis team up to lead in issuance as HPS debuts
Five mid market CLO managers priced in May for a combined $2 billion monthly issuance. This marked the fourth straight month when mid market volumes crossed $2 billion

US CLO league tables: Palmer Square back on top as BofA marches on
Palmer Square Capital Management retook the lead of the US CLO manager league tables for the first time since January

Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD

Barings scores tightest debt execution for five-year CLO in over a month
Barings priced its second CLO of the year on Wednesday and secured the tightest debt costs of any five-year reinvestment deal in over a month

Mid market CLO issuance tops $2bn for the month as MidCap prices
Apollo affiliate MidCap Financial priced a middle market CLO on Friday named Woodmont CLO 2023-12, a deal that brought mid market CLO issuance for the month over $2 billion

Sculptor structures junior CLO debt as loans on first new issue in 12 months
Sculptor Capital Management returned to the CLO primary market on Thursday to print its first new issue deal in over 12 months

Proportion of CLO managers buying own equity rises to 70% in 2023, conference hears
Panelists at the Annual CLO Industry Conference hosted by the LSTA and DealCatalyst in New York on Tuesday shared data on the number of CLO managers buying their own equity and the portion of issuance volumes accounted for by the top tier of managers

GoldenTree prints new US CLO with 2023's tightest triple A print
GoldenTree Loan Management priced a new CLO on Friday, securing the tightest triple A print of the year at 175 basis points

US CLO league tables: CVC team with BofA to grab lead
$5.4 billion of US CLO new issues priced last month, which marked the 11^th straight month with no forms of refinancing pricing

Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD

CIFC prints second CLO following Texas pension joint venture
CIFC Asset Management has priced its second CLO securitizing Texas Debt Capital, the joint venture it setup with Teacher Retirement System of Texas in 2021 to invest in the loan market

CVC becomes first CLO manager to price four deals in 2023
CVC Credit Partners became the first CLO manager to price four primary market transactions globally in 2023 on Thursday after teaming with Bank of America on the $499.45 million deal named Apidos CLO XLV

CLO market finds feet again after ‘miniature credit crunch’ blows up spreads in March
Markets were rocked by what some observers have called a “miniature credit crunch” in March, with disruption beginning with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and ending with UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse.

Biggest investors add to CLO holdings — but Japanese banks buy more than US-based rivals
Most of the biggest CLO noteholders in the banking world increased their investments in CLOs in the fourth quarter of 2022, but industry insiders say the momentum in early 2023 has been with Japanese buyers over US domestic institutions

US CLO league tables: BofA takes CLO lead as new issues keep calm and carry on
US CLO issuance dropped last month as the banking crisis gripped financial markets when Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failed and troubled Credit Suisse was sold for below market value

Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD

CVC ends CLO primary drought with week's first new issue
CVC Credit Partners broke through the CLO primary market drought on Friday to print the first new issue deal of the week

Audax becomes first manager of 2023 to reset a CLO
Audax Private Debt has become the first manager of 2023 to complete a CLO reset, teaming with Bank of America to rework its 2020 middle market deal named Audax Senior Debt CLO 4

US CLO pipeline: issuers takes credit sell-off in their stride as supply picks up
Despite the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the last week, the CLO machine has continued to churn with just shy of $5 billion of US and mid market CLO issuance this week

Golub prices $1.4 billion CLOs in a single day
Golub Capital Partners priced two CLOs on Thursday worth a combined $1.4 billion in the biggest day of primary activity for a single manager so far in 2023

Western AM goes short-tenor for first CLO of the year
Western Asset Management priced its first new issue of the year on Friday, and its fifth of the Crown City moniker it adopted in 2020

US CLO league tables: JP Morgan knocks BofA off top spot and Invesco displaces Palmer Square

28 US CLO managers braved the waters in February and between them, they brought over $12 billion of new issuance to market. This takes the manager base this year to 39 already

Global CLO league tables - February 2023 YTD
Global CLO league tables - February 2023 YTD

CLOs cheap to corporates but expensive to agency MBS, says BofA
CLO bonds are currently pricing cheap relative to corporates but look expensive relative to agency MBS bonds, according to new research from Bank of America