Global CLO b-wic round-up: spreads tighten across the board as bond-flex CLOs trade well
Price levels have tightened and, more importantly, stabilised across the secondary CLO market over the last two weeks, but the Easter break led to a drop off in CLO b-wic supply

CLOs pressured by sub-80 loan index as UBS predicts $550 billion of distress
CLOs were squeezed again today as the coronavirus selloff continues to hammer the loan market and UBS predicted many leveraged loans will become distressed

CLO new issues shut down as market digests fiscal stimulus measures
The CLO and loan pipelines have dried up as managers and investors shift their focus to trading, according to market sources

Palmer Square static CLO reveals funding-cost spike since January
Palmer Square Capital Management yesterday priced its second static CLO of 2020, according to market sources – but pricing levels show the toll coronavirus-related volatility has taken on short-dated CLO liabilities

KKR beats CIFC's European CLO benchmark one day later
KKR Credit brought new issue CLO Avoca XXI via Bank of America last night and in doing so, set a new triple A spread benchmark for European CLO managers of 89bp and a cost of debt of 164.5bp

CIFC pushes European CLO spreads to new tights
CIFC Asset Management’s second CLO in the European market, CIFC European Funding CLO II, has set a new benchmark for the year as triple A spreads move tighter to 90bp with a cost of debt of 165.6bp.

Voya matches European CLO triple A tights and offloads single Bs
92 basis points is the spread to beat in Europe for triple-A tranches, as Voya Alternative Asset Management brought its third CLO on the continent, Voya Euro CLO III, via Credit Suisse

CSAM repeats tested formula with largest CLO reset of 2020
Credit Suisse Asset Management returned to the CLO market on Friday after teaming with Barclays to price a reset of its 2016 vintage US CLO, Madison Park Funding XXII

Carlyle revives amortising euro CLO with upsized capital structure
Carlyle Group has reset a CLO in the middle of its amortisation period, giving a new lease of life to the deal named Carlye GMS Euro CLO 2015-1

McDermott slips into bankruptcy with CLOs holding almost $1 billion
42 CLO managers hold $957.6 million of the debt of McDermott International, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. Under the plan, McDermott’s term loan and revolving lenders will receive 94% of McDermott’s reorganised equity and $500 million in take back senior secured term loans. Term loan claims are expected to recover 84%, according to a disclosure statement 

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US CLO equity returns in big way as four control positions hit the market
Over $230 million of US CLO equity went on sale last week via bid lists, the first time these assets have made their way to the secondary market in 2020. It also marks the most US CLO equity listed in a week since at least 2018, according to CLO-i

Anchorage markets CLO triple As at 195bp in novel high triple-C CLO
Anchorage is marketing a high triple-C CLO with a lower than average triple C bucket for such a deal, but with a market value test and par flush triggers.

PGIM launches US CLO with unfunded double Bs
To double B or not to double B, that is the question as PGIM issues an unfunded double B-rated note as part of Dryden 80 CLO, a new issue deal which priced on Friday via Bank of America

US CLO b-wic round-up: secondary volumes reach new heights with equity lagging
The US CLO secondary space saw almost $1.8 billion of paper listed last week according to CLO-i, a record amount for this year. Equity, however, did not draw much interest

Oak Hill prices tightest new US CLO of 2019 with 177bp funding costs
Oak Hill has priced 2019’s tightest CLO after teaming up with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to issue OHA Credit Funding 3

Global b-wic round-up: secondary flows drop to $599 million in the US
Secondary CLO trading took a back-seat last week, with European market participants away Monday and the US focused on 10 primary market pricings 

Palmer Square brings single Bs back to its static CLOs as funding costs tighten
Palmer Square Capital Management priced its second static CLO of the year on Thursday named Palmer Square Loan Funding 2019-2, according to market sources

Global b-wic round-up: focus shifts to the wings of the capital structure
The secondary US CLO market looks to be rebounding after a slow end to the first quarter of 2019 with first-loss and first-pays drumming up attention

US CLO round-up: choose your own reinvestment period
Reinvestment periods have played an important role so far this year, with 30.8% of the new issue market opting for terms shorter than four years

Oak Hill prices $603.5 million CLO with senior triple As printing at 132bp
The New York-based manager has teamed up with Morgan Stanley to launch its first US new issue CLO of 2019

Ellington goes for two-year reinvestment period as it prices CLO
Ellington Management priced a $478.5 million CLO via Barclays on Friday, continuing its strategy of selecting portfolios with high tolerance of triple C-rated loans

TICP prices new issue CLO with rare 2.5 year reinvestment period
TICP, the credit arm of TPG Capital, yesterday became the first manager of 2018 to price a new issue CLO with a 2.5 year reinvestment period

Control equity investor decides against reworking CLO triple As in $140 million refi
Another US CLO has been refinanced without the triple A-rated notes being troubled

Triple As are left alone as Natixis prices US CLO refi for large asset manager
Natixis priced a US CLO refinancing for LCM Asset Management on Friday in which the first-pay notes remained intact while the remainder of the debt stack was repriced

Wellfleet cuts triple A spread by 51bp in second CLO refi of October
Wellfleet Credit Partners has returned to the CLO refi market for the second time this month to rework Wellfleet CLO 2016-2