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Europe sees another tight print
5 days ago
CVC added to last week’s rush of European deals with CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXXI – the manager’s seventh transaction of the year -
Bain keeps it short for reset of 2020 vintage CLO
1 month ago
Bain Capital Credit has reset Bain 2020-5, a US BSL CLO, in a USD 372m transaction -
KKR keeps it short-dated for latest reset
3 months ago
Morgan Stanley has priced the first short-dated deal of the year, with a USD 427.9m reset of the 2020 vintage KKR CLO 28 -
New CLO from Rockford Tower scores tightest spreads in Europe since Q1
8 months ago
Rockford Tower Capital Management priced a new €375.5 million European CLO on Friday and saw the tightest capital structure since the first quarter of this year -
Aegon agrees to buy NIBC's CLO platform
1 year ago
Aegon Asset Management has agreed to buy NIBC’s North Westerly European CLO platform, which includes three deals alongside the NIBC CLO team -
PennantPark prints this week's second new middle market CLO
1 year ago
Issuance for middle market CLOs by deal count for the week overtook figures for broadly syndicated CLOs on Thursday after PennantPark Investment Advisers priced a new $297.8 million transaction -
Telco bucks market trend with relief rally
1 year ago
United Group, the Balkan-focused, Netherlands-registered telecom group, rallied sharply in credit markets on Wednesday after the company addressed how it would meet approaching debt maturities -
Fidelity places new CLO triple As at 195bp amid dispersion
1 year ago
Fidelity Investments priced a new CLO on Tuesday, placing the triple A notes at 195 basis points over Sofr -
Europe welcomes four new CLOs in a day after nothing for one month
1 year ago
No issuance to speak of in a month, and then four CLOs come along at once -
Four Euro CLOs emerge with target pricings as early as tomorrow
1 year ago
According to the latest marketing blasts, WhiteStar is targeting pricing tomorrow, Palmer Square and Cross Ocean are aiming for ‘as early as’ tomorrow and Five Arrows will aim for early-to-mid next week -
Quadruple winner Redding Ridge celebrates with new European CLO
1 year ago
Redding Ridge picked up four trophies in awards season (in contrast to one Premier League football team which is labouring in a similar pursuit) and it has struck while the iron is hot to print a new European CLO -
Attack-minded CLO managers capitalise on bearish outlook
2 years ago
Some of the most aggressive CLO managers have benefited from loan market volatility in March after having tweaked their portfolios in the months beforehand -
Sofr/Libor CLO basis rises to 20bp as Marathon prints double As with alternative benchmark
2 years ago
Bank of America has inked the second Sofr CLO tranche as part of a $429.6 million new issue deal for Marathon Asset Management -
New York pension favours credit as it pumps $1.1 billion into tech, loans and distressed
2 years ago
New York State Common Retirement Fund has splurged over $1 billion in credit, topping allocations it made in equities and real estate -
Zais CLO employs unusual triple A debt structure
2 years ago
Zais Group teamed up with Jefferies on Thursday to print its first new CLO in over 12 months -
Neuberger Berman issues new US CLO as its 2021 volume spikes to $2.9 billion
3 years ago
Neuberger Berman has finalised its sixth US CLO transaction of the year. Bank of America arranged the $410 million new issue named Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers CLO 41 -
Blackstone refinances mezz tranches of 2018 bond-heavy CLO
3 years ago
Blackstone Credit has teamed up with GreensLedge to refinance the mezzanine debt notes of a 2018-vintage inaugural bond-heavy CLO named Cirrus Funding 2018-1 -
Compression plays out as HY and European CLO double Bs outperform
3 years ago
Investment grade and high yield credit spreads have tightened in sync with each other this week, but CDS and CLOs alike underline that the big theme over the past month has been compression between investment grade and high yield -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers -
Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
3 years ago
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios -
Beneath the triple C: April showers send buckets overboard
3 years ago
Downgrade waves rocked the CLO market in April as Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded 135 corporate borrowers to triple C or below, from ratings above that level. The downgrades put CLOs in rough waters as $41.6 billion of such loans are prevalent in US CLOs while €5.64 are moored in European CLO portfolios – affecting 5.92% of the US market and 4.37% of the European market -
Who’s got the moves US: oil and gas leads renaissance for US CLO managers
3 years ago
The US leveraged loan market has held steady over the last two weeks. After rising to just below 87 of par in mid-April, the S&P LSTA US Leveraged Loan index closed at 85.75 to start this week -
Credit keeps its own rhythm amid oil crash and EU clash
4 years ago
As another week of worry and disappointment ends, the most optimistic thing that can be said for credit is the new peak spreads are lower than those that went before - suggesting a more manageable level of volatility is starting to characterise the market -
McClatchy whacks out killer headline as CDS pays 98 cents
4 years ago
A month ago, when US newspaper company McClatchy triggered a bankruptcy credit event, sellers of CDS protection may have consoled themselves they were only looking at paying out around 27 cents on the contracts. But yesterday’s credit event auction set the final price at just two, meaning a whopping 98 cent windfall for protection buyers -
Fortress digests CraftWorks bankruptcy
4 years ago
CraftWorks Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday, with Fortress Investments holding all of the Tennessee restaurant operator's first lien debt - of which over half is in middle market CLOs. The New York-based firm has submitted a “stalking horse” bid to buy CraftWorks' assets
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