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Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
1 year ago
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 -
15 CLO managers aim to print European deals as 'aspirational pipeline' forms
1 year ago
European CLO market participants are doubtful the pace of issuance will return to full swing in September, despite a reasonably healthy forward-looking pipeline. -
CLOs at a glance (July 2022)
1 year ago
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month
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Credit funds at a glance (May 2022)
1 year ago
A round up of fundraising and people moves in credit
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CLOs at a glance (January 2022)
2 years ago
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month -
US CLO pipeline: 1.0 manager returning, Carlyle going for CLO 10 as market goes to 100
2 years ago
Never in 1,000 years would the critics have expected this -
US CLO pipeline: 33 new issues enter market with historic CLO records on the verge of shattering
2 years ago
The US CLO market is running as hot as it has all year with a whopping 33 managers marketing new issues CLOs, according to market sources -
Euro CLO league tables: Blackstone back on top while Jefferies extends lead as focus turns to new issues
2 years ago
2021 European CLO issuance crossed €60 billion in July, which is more than the 22 months that preceded this year -
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD
2 years ago
Global CLO league tables - Jul 2021 YTD -
Carlyle and KKR greet US holiday with $830m of CLO refis
2 years ago
Carlyle Group and KKR each refinanced CLOs with the two deals totalling $830.3 million, according to market sources -
CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
2 years ago
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets -
Woah, we’re halfway there
2 years ago
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform -
Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
2 years ago
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market -
CLO triple As leak wider but mezz comes in as Carlyle, PGIM and KKR price Euro new issues
3 years ago
CLO heavyweights Carlyle, KKR and PGIM all took to the primary market on Friday pricing a total of €1.22 billion issuance -
Waiting for afters
3 years ago
Day one arb remains important, but last year there were opportunities aplenty in the secondary market, which put the onus on printing CLOs and waiting for the day after non-call periods expired -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: 2020 deals trade at premium
3 years ago
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 -
CLOs hold €250 million of defaulted French events organiser Comexposium
3 years ago
CLOs hold €246.1 million of French events organiser Comexposium, which entered safeguard protection in the Commercial Court of Nanterre on Wednesday -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: CLO lower mezz tightens while equity investors strive for duration
3 years ago
A large supply of CLO paper flooded the secondary market last week as $1.5 billion of US CLO bonds and €370 million of European CLOs were listed, according to CLO-i -
Global CLO b-wic round-up: dealers get involved amid rally, but dispersion persists
3 years ago
The CLO secondary markets returned to form last week with $716.2 million of US CLO bonds and a further €306.5 million of European CLO paper listed. Although for both markets over half of the total volume listed came from Thursday’s scheduled b-wics -
Details emerge on nature of Revlon payment 'error' and lender attitudes
3 years ago
Fresh details have emerged on the nature of the ‘operational error’ Citi says took place when it transferred $900 million to Revlon loan holders -
Global CLO league tables - July 2020 YTD
3 years ago
Global CLO league tables - July 2020 YTD -
Europe’s newcomers find ways to stand out
3 years ago
Last year’s new European CLO managers needed to provide something different for investors. In general, they’ve succeeded, with Capital Four having one of the smallest overlap figures in our data -
Euro CLO league tables: You wait all month for a pricing and then three come along at once
3 years ago
Two CLO managers chose April to price their first CLOs of the year. Three European CLOs priced last month as the primary market opened following a coronavirus-enforced closure in mid-March -
Kroll fires back at ‘factual errors’ in WSJ CLO rating report
4 years ago
Kroll Bond Rating Agency has hit back at the Wall Street Journal article that suggested the firm gives higher ratings to CLOs than its competitors -
US CLO round-up: Fed up of waiting
4 years ago
The US CLO market made a bright start this year, but 2019 now lags 2018 and 2017 after a weak August checked its momentum. This has left some pinning their hopes on a favourable outcome to the US Federal Reserve meeting this week, amid political overtures to up its game in the wake of the European Central Bank's stimulus package
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