Franklin Templeton wraps up deal for $35bn Alcentra
Franklin Templeton has completed its acquisition of BNY Mellon’s $35 billion credit unit Alcentra

Nuveen strikes deal to buy European direct lender Arcmont
Nuveen has reached an agreement to buy a controlling stake in European credit manager Arcmont Asset Management

PE firm Nile buys minority stake in Prytania AM
Nile Capital Group has bought a minority stake in a structured credit specialist 

Apollo and Pimco buy ‘significant portion’ of Credit Suisse's securitised products group
The move has prompted a rally for Credit Suisse, which on Thursday unveiled a strategic review “designed to reduce risk-weighted assets and leverage exposure”

Iron Park finds new parent just 10 months on from Hunter Point investment
General Atlantic says it has agreed to buy credit manager Iron Park Capital Partners with a view to rebranding it as General Atlantic Credit

Apollo reaches for bigger slice of pi(e) with 5% Diameter stake
Apollo Global Management has bought a 5% stake in credit fund and CLO manager Diameter Capital Partners, cementing the relationship between the firms

AnaCap's credit team spins out to form Veld
Veld, Veld, Veld. If it isn't AnaCap's former credit business

MetLife set to buy impact bond specialist AIM
MetLife Investment Management has struck a deal to buy fixed income ESG specialist Affirmative Investment Management

Leucadia seeds European distressed and credit opps firm Pearlstone
New opportunistic credit firm Pearlstone Alternative has received backing from Leucadia Asset Management in the form of seed capital and distribution services

"Wholesale moves into risk areas after internal changes should sound an alarm"
The composition of CLO managers is changing, so management styles may drift  

Franklin Templeton buys Alcentra in $700 million deal
Franklin Templeton has agreed to buy BNY Mellon’s $38 billion credit unit Alcentra, which will see Alcentra combined with Franklin Templeton’s US credit manager Benefit Street Partners

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: 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 

MV expands into CLO management as it absorbs Natixis IM private debt team
The Natixis IM-affiliate has expanded into CLO management by absorbing Ostrum Asset Management’s former private debt team, in conjunction with the opening of a Paris office

Spac pricing hints at Sound Point's growth ambitions in loan market
Sound Point Acquisition Corp has priced a $225 million IPO, signalling that credit asset manager Sound Point Capital Management is looking to expand its platform

Whitestar swoops for US CLOs as it readies European deals
MacKay Shields has completed its exit from CLO management after it emerged that the asset manager has transferred the rights to two of its US CLOs to Whitestar Asset Management

That's my ResponsAbility: M&G to buy Swiss impact investor
M&G says it has agreed to buy a majority stake in $3.7 billion Swiss impact private debt and private equity manager responsAbility Investments to grow its sustainable investment capabilities

KKR and PGIM among bidders to buy Alcentra: Bloomberg
BNY Mellon is set to offload its credit investment unit Alcentra, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter

Gapstow expects strategic deals as credit manager M&A volume slumps to $120 billion
M&A volume involving credit asset managers dropped last year with total target value assets under management slumping to $120 billion from $149 billion in 2020 (and $254 billion in 2019), according to Gapstow Capital Partners

Park Square sells minority stake to Bonaccord
Bonaccord Capital Partners has bought a minority stake in $10 billion private credit shop Park Square Capital

WhiteStar to absorb MacKay Shields' European CLO platform
WhiteStar Asset Management has swooped for MacKay Shields’ European CLO business, ending weeks of speculation over the latter’s CLO ambitions and confirming WhiteStar's status as a rising star 

Commerzbank CLO triple A investors approve Cross Ocean management rights transfer
The controlling class in Commerzbank Debt Fund’s Bosphorus CLO V and VI have agreed to Cross Ocean Investment Advisors taking over management of the deals, leaving equity investors such as Chenavari a few days to decide on the switch 

Wells Fargo AM becomes Allspring under new ownership
Wells Fargo Asset Management has completed its transformation into Allspring Global Investment 

T Rowe Price to buy Oak Hill for up to $4.2 billion
Oak Hill is set to become T Rowe Price’s private markets platform, led by Oak Hill’s chief executive officer Glenn August

Brevan Howard buys stake in structured credit fund manager led by former employee
1543 Capital and Brevan Howard have strengthened their ties with market sources indicating that Brevan Howard has acquired a minority equity stake in the manager