Euro league tables: Citi tops rankings in a year of growth for the CLO market
50 new issue CLOs, 39 active managers and four debutants: Creditflux analyses the revival of the European CLO market last year

Finra pencils in proposals to trace extra detail in CLO trades
Finra is stepping up its efforts to provide greater transparency on secondary CLO pricing, according to several market sources

They said it: long faces on flow traders
Citi’s Jim Hughes tells the Creditflux CLO Investor Summit about how difficult life is for flow credit traders

Shrinking spread cushions prove hard for CLOs
 Falling loan spreads are placing ever tighter constraints on CLO managers’ choice of investments just as the loan supply itself is declining

Insurance reallocation tightens CLO mezzanine
Buying by US insurance firms has been the biggest factor driving double A to triple B CLO spreads tighter this year, according to Citi CLO head Jim Hughes

Managers pick spots on CLO curve
As refi volumes slowed through 2017, the term curve for CLOs steepened, leading managers to vary their deal tenors as they sought to hit the evolving sweet spot.

CIFC resets 2012 CLO with triple As pricing at 80bp
CIFC made its 13th CLO transaction in the US CLO market this year yesterday, resetting CIFC Funding 2012-II, according to market sources

MJX shrugs off CIO departure to price $715 million CLO
MJX Asset Management priced its fifth new issue CLO of 2017 yesterday, according to market sources. It has also emerged that a senior official has recently left the firm

NY Life reignites Tetragon partnership as it prices new US CLO
TCI Capital Management, the CMOA platform established by Tetragon, priced the $512.3 million deal yesterday

US CLO round-up: trend-setting managers show 2015 refis are in fashion
The fourth-quarter CLO rush is well and truly in motion with $3.4 billion of CLO paper pricing in the US - and refis of 2015 deals are becoming increasingly important

Investors prefer direct lending to CLOs
For the first time in the history of Creditflux’s credit allocator survey, investors have voted direct lending the best investment in credit. CLOs came joint second. By Michelle D’souza

Mid-market CLO issuance crosses $10 billion as Madison prices reset
Madison Capital Funding priced a reset of a 2014 middle-market CLO this week, according to market sources

CIFC prices its 11th CLO transaction of the year
CIFC has priced a reset of a 2013 vintage CLO, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: New Jersey managers come to market in style
After a slow start following Labor day, four US CLOs have priced this week – including a deal arranged by Goldman Sachs for Zais

Manager plans first post-crisis CLO backed by infrastructure assets
Barclays is marketing the first 2.0 infrastructure CLO, according to market sources

CBAM brings its 2017 CLO issuance to over $4 billion with latest deal
CBAM priced its third new issue CLO worth $1.3 billion on Friday, according to market sources

US CLO round-up: 2017's leading managers come back for more
Three of the most active managers in the CLO market this year – including two who dared venture into the primary market in the opening weeks of 2017 – returned to price their latest CLO transactions this week. We look at which managers have been most active in 2017 across new issue, refis and resets

KKR prices triple As at 123bp in latest CLO reset featuring a yen repack
KKR Credit has priced a reset of its 2014-vintage deal KKR CLO 10. The reset triple As priced at 123bp - which is inside two new issues that have printed this week

CLO round-up: it's a good time to be a debut manager
New managers are taking advantage of welcoming debt investors by speedily raising CLOs. Our analysis shows that 2017 is the perhaps the best time to price a debut CLO since 2013

Citi prices two US CLO resets in a day
Post-reinvestment resets are becoming popular with Carlyle pricing this type of transaction yesterday.

Barings joins elite list of managers to price US CLO triple As at 118bp
Wells Fargo had a busy end to last week after pricing three (very different) US CLOs

CLO round-up: US CLO triple As hit 121bp amid late flurry of deals
What had started off as a quiet week in the new issue CLO market has ended with a bang as MJX Asset Management refinanced a deal on Thursday while American Money Management (reset) and CVC Credit Partners (new US CLO) have priced today

Citi brings two five-year reinvestment CLOs for US managers
Citi brings two US CLOs with five-year reinvestment periods and split triple A tranches

CBAM earns investor support on debut US CLO as triple As price at 125bp
Recently-established credit manager CBAM has made its entrance into CLO management in style. The manager has priced the largest broadly-syndicated loan CLO of 2017 and Creditflux data shows its triple-A print is in the top ten for this year