Euro CLO market re-opens as HPS breaks new issue duck with triple As at 205bp
HPS Investment Management has become the first European CLO issuer of the year, pricing Aqueduct European CLO 7-2022 and shaving off 10bp off triple A price guidance

Beneath the triple C: Life could be better, but it’s just a letter, under the CCC
Many market participants were eagerly looking forward to a break in December after a gruelling year, but the rating agencies were in no mood to oblige. 

Alcentra adds to European CLO investment team with sell-side hire
A European CLO trader has switched to the buy side to join Alcentra

HPS targets tomorrow for Euro CLO with triple As guided around 215bp
Price guidance on HPS Euro CLO is revealed 

Head of US CLOs and securitised products trading parts way with bank
Eight years after establishing its CLO desk, the head of US CLOs and securitised products trading has parted ways with the bank

Marathon adopts new style and branding for first CLO under new management
Marathon Asset Management is set to adopt a new naming convention for the first CLO it issues under new leadership

HPS pre-markets 81%-plus ramped European CLO
HPS Investment Partners is pre-marketing a new issue European CLO, which is understood to be over 80% ramped

Antares confirms CLO PM hire to build broadly syndicated loan business
Antares Capital confirmed the appointment of former ICG official Seth Katzenstein as head of broadly syndicated loans today

Barclays shifts Euro CLO trading to ABS team with departure
A European CLO trader at Barclays, who took on more responsibility for trading following a keu figure departure, is understood to have parted ways with the bank late last year

US CLO pipeline: Triple A dispersion coming to fore as Palmer Square aims to open market again
The US CLO market is set to reopen with five managers in various stages of marketing new issue CLOs, according to sources

US and European CLO metrics diverge, finds Barclays
CLO spreads saw a month-on-month move wider in December while key portfolio metrics such as weighted average rating factor (warf) and triple C buckets deteriorated in the US. However, European portfolio metrics showed some improvement 

Mid market CLO league tables: Golub makes it six straight while Natixis blows away the competition
In a trying year, issuance of mid market CLOs dropped a considerable amount. Total volumes dropped from $43.6 billion in 2021 to $20.8 billion in 2022, a 52% decrease year-on-year

US CLO league tables: Blackstone and BofA rise above competition in volatile 2022
A tumultuous year in the US CLO market led to total issuance dropping from a record $391.2 billion in 2021 to $134.8 billion in 2022

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies wins at a canter as fellow newcomer Palmer Square wins in new issues
A year of turmoil in the CLO market inevitably led to European CLO issuance dropping in 2022 from its record 2021

Global 2022 CLO league tables
Global 2022 CLO league tables

CLO rankings: manager AUM, advisory firm and trustees Q4 2022
As 2022 draws to a close manager consolidation through mergers and acquisitions have been balanced out by new market entrants to leave roughly the same number of managers that entered the year, at least for now.

BofA fills Euro CLO trading head role
Bank of America has filled its European CLO secondary trading head role with an internal transfer after former head switched focus to US CLO trading

Bain promotes European CLO PM to partner
Bain Capital has promoted its head of European structured credit and liquid credit to partner

BofA Euro CLO trading head shifts focus to US
The head of European CLO trading at Bank of America is stepping away from the European CLO side of the business

CLO triple A tiering grew to 48bp by December, says PennMutual
The triple A spread differential between top and lower tier CLO managers widened to 48 basis points by the end of 2022 from just 18bp at the start of the year, according to new research published by PennMutual Asset Management

Citi forms new securitised trading business
Citi has formed a new securitised products trading business, with sources saying the combined business is better aligned with how the bank’s clients are organised

Parallel CLO tranche sinks deeper into triple C
Parallel 2015-1’s junior-most debt tranche was downgraded to Caa3 late last year by Moody’s

Head of CLO investing leaves Oxford Funds in shock departure
Head of CLO investing leaves after 16 years

Citi's global co-head of CLO trading joins Octaura
Citi's global co-head CLO, ABS, Trups and CDO trading has left the bank after 13 years to join electronic loan and CLO trading platform Octaura as its chief product officer

Milbank promotes two CLO specialists to partners
Law firm Milbank has promoted two CLO specialists to partners as part of a cohort of 17.