Carlyle scores 225bp triple A print on new CLO due Friday
Carlyle Group has secured a 225 basis points triple A print on its new CLO named Carlyle US CLO 2022-6, which is expected to price on Friday

Blackstone leads key category as investors lash out at loan settlement by fax: CLO Census latest
CLO market participants have voted for the three most prolific US CLO issuers as the ones to have taken greatest advantage of credit volatility this year, according to the latest updates from the Creditflux CLO Census. There are just hours left to add your voice if you have not already done so, with the Census set to close later today

US CLO pipeline: MidOcean and Seix look to end three-year drought as others rock and reload
14 US CLO managers are in various stages of marketing their latest offerings, with a wide scope of names for investors to choose from

Secondary CLOs stand firm as credit markets take a hit
Macro weakness is seeping into credit with CDS indices gapping wider and US loans suffering a setback after dropping below 95 points this week. Traders say the CLO secondary market has reflected this turn in sentiment, with did-not-trades racking up – although spreads have held up better than other parts of the credit market

CLOs keep eyes glued to screen as Cineworld previews possible chapter 11
Cineworld, the UK-based cinema giant, has announced that a chapter 11 restructuring is among the options it is considering, in response to recent media speculation about a possible default

New Carlyle CLO with Citi and Barclays co-arranging scores tightest August triple As
Carlyle Group has teamed up with Barclays and Citi to print its latest CLO named Carlyle US CLO 2022-5 at $495.5 million

CLOs at a glance (August 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

US CLO pipeline: like a (Center)bridge over troubled water
A large asset manager is marketing its first US CLO at a time of volatility in the underlying loan market. Whereas other funds build walls, CLOs build bridges 

Bain and Carlyle print five-year reinvestment CLOs with senior triple As at 210bp
Bain Capital Credit and Carlyle Group each issued a new five-year reinvestment CLO on Thursday, with each deal's senior triple A tranche paying a coupon of 210 basis points over Sofr

CLO counterparties hunt for signs of optimism: SFIG conference
Leveraged loan and CLO investors are hunting for signs of optimism as they face the prospect of a US recession

Quarterly rankings: Carlyle climbs to top of pack with CBAM boost
Carlyle Group has cemented itself as the largest manager globally, following its acquisition of fellow CLO manager CBAM

CLOs at a glance (July 2022)
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
 
 

   

CLO pipeline: large managers defy loan drought to keep market moving
US CLO senior spreads may have blown out to 180-190 basis points over Sofr for five-year deals, and even wider for short-dated new issues, but that will not stop the market from soldiering on

Carlyle prints new US CLO with triple As at 195bp
Carlyle Group priced its latest new CLO on Friday, placing the deal's triple A notes at 195 basis points over Sofr

Two more seasoned CLOs poised to switch to Sofr based on issuance trigger
CBAM 2018-6 has joined Greywolf III-R and IV-R as another pre-2022 US CLO to switch its benchmark rate from three-month Libor to three-month Sofr after the market hit the same issuance trigger

Experienced CLO investor set to join Carlyle in New York
Carlyle Group is making a big hire to its CLO investment team in New York 

Carlyle closes CBAM transaction to become largest CLO manager in the world
Carlyle Group has closed a deal to buy the assets of CBAM and has become the largest CLO manager in the world

CBAM CLO debt comes into play with reset incentive
Carlyle Group’s acquisition of CBAM for roughly $787 million ($615 million in cash) has underlined that we are in a seller’s market, sources say. But a key part of that deal will be the ability to extend CBAM CLOs through resets

Quarterly rankings: Wave of acquisitions reshapes CLO market
A wave of acquisitions and consolidation hit the CLO market in the first quarter of 2022, although the ripples have yet to alter Creditflux’s manager rankings

Senior CLO spreads widen again as Carlyle places senior triple As at 146bp
CLO triple A spreads began the week wider in the primary market after Carlyle Group priced a new deal with the seniormost notes yielding Sofr plus 146 basis points

Carlyle brings first new US CLO of 2022
Carlyle has priced a $407 million US CLO named 2022-1, its first new deal and second overall CLO transaction of 2022

CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all 

Carlyle to become world's biggest CLO manager with deal to buy CBAM assets
Carlyle Group says it is buying CBAM Partners assets in a deal that is set to make the firm the largest CLO manager globally with about $48 billion of CLOs under management.

CLO pipeline: deals come in two by two hurrah! hurrah!
It is raining CLOs in February and some issuers are preparing for the deluge by printing deals at the double

Carlyle and Oak Hill give $50 million upsizes to CLOs amid resets
Carlyle Group and Oak Hill Advisors each reset a legacy CLO on Monday, with both managers opting for a substantial upsize of the original deals