Palmer Square includes senior/junior triple As and delayed draw double Bs in Euro CLO
Barclays arranged the €400.8 million deal, which features a one-year reinvestment period 

KKR pulls low-ramp European CLO amid loan rally
KKR is understood to have pulled its new issue European CLO Avoca XXVIII, according to multiple sources. The deal was due to price this week

Virtus to step in as collateral admin on several Blackstone CLOs as US Bank resigns
US Bank has resigned as collateral administrator on a set of Blackstone Credit European CLOs

Blackstone targets next week for Euro CLO via BNP Paribas
The €380.36 million deal is anticipated to price next week and is around 59.5% ramped 

Credit Suisse to streamline European CLO manager client list
Credit Suisse is unlikely to be among the heavyweights in European CLO origination with market sources indicating that the bank is reducing its CLO manager client list

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.

Credit Suisse European CLO syndication and origination head leaves amid restructuring
Credit Suisse’s head of European CLO syndication and origination is understood to have left the bank

Valeur hires ISP's structured credit head as it takes over management of CLO fund
Valeur and ISP Group’s collaboration on the CLO fund started in April 2020 with Valeur offering structuring services for the fund within its Ardesia platform

Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale

Structured credit gains focus from 75% of UK pensions: Aeon
Three quarters of UK pension schemes say they are increasingly focused on structured credit products

CVC and PGIM add to European CLO new issue surge
CVC and PGIM joined Ares, Neuberger and Oaktree in pricing new issues last week

Euro CLO league tables: Barings €20 million behind PGIM in overall issuance as Jefferies extends lead
The European CLO manager base reaches 41 as six new issues priced for a total of €1.9 billion

Global CLO league tables - October 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - October 2022 YTD

Tikehau targets mid-November for new issue Euro CLO
Société Générale has picked up another co-arranger and co-placement agent role with Goldman Sachs on Tikehau CLO VIII, which is targeted to price in mid-November

Ares prints new issue Euro CLO via BofA
Ares Management has priced a new issue European CLO, Ares European CLO XVI

Weren’t there more of us than this?
According to this year’s Creditflux CLO Census, the CLO industry is not feeling optimistic. Some investors have vanished and managers have not taken advantage of helpful market conditions

New US CLOs brace for EU’s Article 7 reporting requirements
Investors now need Article 7 reporting compliance for new non-EU securitisation investments (such as US CLOs). This includes high-level portfolio reporting to investors, including loan-by-loan data in greater depth than even CLO trustee reports provide.

European CLO market weathers liability-driven investment crisis as just 4% of b-wics fail to trade
European CLO b-wic supply surged in September as liability-driven investment strategies sought to raise collateral via the floating rate CLO market.

Apollo scooped up $1.1 billion CLO paper amid UK LDI crisis, officials confirm
Apollo Global Management bought a whopping $1.1 billion of triple A and double A-rated CLO paper yielding over 8% in the three weeks of elevated bwic supply in October

Cairn begins "new chapter" as it rebrands to Polus
Cairn Capital has been renamed Polus Capital Management, which brings it together with Bybrook Capital, the credit asset manager it acquired in 2021.  

Nuveen raises $150 million to invest further in CLOs
Nuveen is expanding its CLO product suite with the launch of a new CLO opportunities fund, according to recent regulatory filings

Past returns: Alhambra CLO paves the way
Five years ago in Creditflux, we reported that Be-Spoke Capital was launching the first SME European CLO since the financial crisis.

They said it: "I don’t know and I don’t care about ESG"
One of our CLO Census responders has a strong view (or not) on ESG

Refi wall looms over CLOs as a fifth exit reinvestment
Loan and high yield issuers have a decent runway before they have to think about refinancing their debt, but CLO issuers are not sitting quite as comfortably.

Nochu turns tables after experiencing CLO walkouts
Norinchukin Bank’s retreat from global CLO investing — having agreed to take down the senior notes of several upcoming CLOs — has disappointed market participants. However, although they don’t condone such actions, sources say there were mitigating circumstances