CLO managers push for index-linked discount obligation thresholds
European and US CLO managers are changing their discount obligation language, according to a new report by Dealscribe 

Latest European Napier Park CLO breaches 130bp level as Investcorp also prices new issue
The European CLO market kicked off the week with two new issues pricing through Bank of America, totalling just over EUR 900m

CLO community turns out in force for 18th annual Creditflux Symposium and Awards
EXCLUSIVE: Award winners celebrated, while the stars of the CLO industry came out in force to share predictions, tips and deal making opportunities

US managers to gear up European private credit CLO market
EXCLUSIVE: A slew of European private credit CLOs are set to come to market this year, with US-based managers leading the charge

Napier Park prices third new Euro issue of the year
The triple As for last week's EUR 405m transaction cleared at Euribor plus 133bps

GoldenTree snaps up global award... again
Last year, GoldenTree was named Creditflux Global Manager of the Year. This year it repeated that achievement — but it also swooped for our US manager of the year and closed-end fund awards

CLO market turns to print-and-sprint deals as volatility spikes
EXCLUSIVE: Napier Park, TP Birch Grove, and BlackRock attempt print-and-sprint deals as the maths gets tougher; AGL and Blackstone pull off deals

Napier Park loses CLO portfolio manager to established European rival
EXCLUSIVE: The CLO market has seen a number of portfolio managers changing seats in Europe

Napier Park’s European CLO portfolio manager leaves firm
EXCLUSIVE: London-based director Diarmuid Curran has resigned from the alternative credit manager  

Napier Park launches and successfully fundraises for captive CLO equity fund
Napier Park has launched its first global CLO captive equity fund and has already raised a sizeable amount

Napier Park prints tightest Euro refi of the year
Last week saw Napier Park refinance a European CLO from the first half of 2022, recording the tightest print for such a deal in 2024

Napier Park prices first European new issue CLO of the year
Priced this afternoon, Napier Park’s third deal of 2024 marked its first European offering this year – a new-issue CLO valued at EUR 456.9m, arranged by Natixis.

Napier Park resets 2017 vintage
Napier Park Global reset its Regatta IX Funding yesterday according to market sources, adding four tranches and a fixed-rate coupon

Euro CLO league tables: Final whistle beckons in close manager race as Jefferies looks to park the bus
Last month, just shy of €3 billion of European CLO paper was priced in the primary market, the most since March and Russia’s war with Ukraine

Napier Park prints static European CLO
Napier Park has opted to print a static CLO. The €282 million deal has a one-year non-call period.

15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline.

Appetite for CLO warehouse investing increases in Europe
The investor base for European CLO warehouse risk has grown in the past few months, and is supporting the increasing number of CLOs where the equity tranche has come from widely syndicated sources

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

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies takes huge lead as managers bunch up
The increased volatility and geopolitical risk brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant European CLO issuance dropped off in March after a strong February

Napier prints short-dated Euro CLO with low ramped warehouse
Standard Chartered picked up another co-placement agent role, while Jefferies was lead arranger on the upsized Henley CLO VII

CLOs at a glance
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month

The Last Tranche with Napier Park's Secmen: tailwinds fuelling CLO market mask manager incompetence
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Serhan Secmen, head of US CLO investments at Napier Park Global Capital, joins to discuss how equity investors choose which managers to allocate to for the best long-term performance

Napier Park resets 2020 Euro CLO for five years
Napier Park has reset its 2020 European CLO, Henley CLO III, with Greensledge and NatWest partnering to upsize and inject the CLO with a fresh, full five-year reinvestment period

Natwest partners with GreensLedge for second European CLO arranging role this year
GreensLedge and Natwest have teamed up for what will be their second European CLO arranging role in 2021

CLO managers join forces as they line up behind SFDR
A plethora of European CLO managers have teamed up with regulatory reporting provider FinDox to form a working group focused on Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), sources tell Creditflux.