Beneath the triple C: CLOs benefit as upgrades make for lighter triple C buckets
For the first time since the sell off in March last year, downgrades to triple C have come to a near-standstill

2012 and 2019 US CLOs get new lease of life as Barings and CVC hit reset
CVC Credit and Barings each tapped the CLO reset market on Friday, bringing total US reset volumes for April up to $4.15 billion

CVC cuts cost of debt by 17.5bp with Euro CLO partial refi
CVC has teamed up with Jefferies to partially refinance its 2018 vintage European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XII, cutting its cost of debt by 17.5 basis points

European CLO leverage hits double-figures
European CLO leverage has increased this year, from an average of 9.4 debt-to-equity in 2020 to 10.3 times in 2021, according to Creditflux data.

Barclays pulls levers as CVC resets and GoldenTree CLO surpasses Spire leverage
Barclays added to its arranging volume on Friday as GoldenTree Asset Management priced the market's highest levered European CLO

Four managers print $1.5 billion CLO refis
Four CLO managers - CVC Credit Partners, CarVal Investors, Ellington Management Group and Neuberger Berman - each priced a CLO refinancing transaction on Friday

Alcentra, BlackRock and CVC refi €1.5 billion of European CLO paper
Deutsche Bank arranged the transactions for BlackRock and CVC while Morgan Stanley arranged partial refinancings for three of Alcentra’s deals

US CLO triple As tighten reach 105bp as CVC registers lowest funding costs since March 2018
CVC Credit Partners brought the CLO market to new tights on Tuesday after pricing its triple A notes at just 105 basis points over Libor

Euro CLO single As and triple Bs could tighten by 10bp with CVC refi
CVC Credit Partners is looking to refinance the five most senior tranches of its 2018 European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund VII. Price talk on mezzanine tranches suggests a big shift in prevailing spreads  

Global CLO b-wic round-up: 2020 deals trade at premium
As the primary CLO market continues to grind tighter, the secondary market is holding steady, but last year's vintages are trading well as they near the end of their call-locks

Basis between resets and new issues collapses as CVC prints Euro triple As at 83bp
CVC has reset and upsized a 2014 vintage European CLO, CVC Cordatus Loan Fund IV

Global CLO b-wic round-up: US lower mezz trades strong, but European piece softens
CLO investors have had no chance to catch their breath after a historic 2020 as US CLO secondary volume reached $3.3 billion and European secondary listings topped €1 billion in January

Euro CLO league tables: Barclays heads close race for new issues
Bridgepoint became the fifth European debut manager in 2020 when it teamed up with Barclays to price Bridgepoint CLO I on 13 November. The €301.85 million deal featured triple A notes at 121bp over Euribor, 11bp wide of market tights

CVC brings in BlackRock and Park Square private credit pair as partners
CVC has made two senior appointments to its private credit team, including a co-head of private credit

European CLOs rise in secondary with Sound Point deal up 4.25 cents from issuance
Double-B rated CLO tranches received bids in the high 90s on Wednesday with Sound Point Capital Management’s debut European CLO attracting the highest cover of 98.25 cents on the euro. But the CLO rally is lagging moves in corporate credit  

European triple As tighten to 106bp with CVC benchmark CLO
CVC Credit Partners priced its latest European CLO on Friday, securing the tightest triple A print since the March sell off

CLO pipeline: LCM switches arranger to complete deal and join issuance surge
Over $3.5 billion of global CLO issuance priced last week and managers in all three CLO markets are taking advantage of tightening spreads across the capital structure after three major covid-19 vaccine breakthroughs and increased confidence since the US presidential election

CVC markets four-year Euro CLO from post-covid warehouse
CVC Credit Partners is marketing a European CLO with a four-year reinvestment period, having originated the deal from a warehouse it opened in October

Manager shrinks in distressed and explores US direct lending sale: Debtwire
A global asset manager has a fresh set of priorities for its global credit platform with distressed debt and US direct lending moving down the pecking order

CVC shaves 13bp off 2015 CLO's funding costs after single tranche refi
CVC Credit Partners has teamed up with Barclays to refinance the fixed-rate notes of its US CLO named Apidos XX

Deutsche Bank returns to US BSL new issue CLOs with first print in over 16 months
Deutsche Bank has priced its first US CLO backed by broadly syndicated loans in over 16 months after teaming up with CVC Credit Partners to issue the $402.5 million Apidos CLO XXXIV

CVC sets new triple A benchmark for Euro CLOs at 110bp
Triple A spreads continue to grind tighter with CVC pricing notes on CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XVIII today with a Euribor plus 110 basis points discount margin

CLO pipeline: managers prepare to end quarter with a bang
CLO issuance is showing no signs of slowing down as spreads continue to grind tighter and election day draws ever closer

CLO triple As expected to tighten to low 120s as CVC markets European deal
CVC Credit Partners is marketing a European CLO with triple As guided at Euribor plus 120 basis points to 125bp

Three years after launch, Rockford Tower joins the elite
The CLO platform launched by King Street Capital Management in 2017 has been crowned Creditflux Manager of the Year