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They said it: "We are proud to be moving our industry in a direction that will bring greater liquidity..."
1 year ago
Brian Carosielli, co-head of global credit trading at Bank of America, on a new CLO trading platform -
CLOs aim to pick up pieces as fear drives dip in loans
1 year ago
Leveraged loan investors grew skittish in June, with prices slipping as the likelihood of a US recession increased, according to market sources. -
Tech platform aims to cut time spent reading CLO docs
1 year ago
Officials at Claira, the new platform that provides natural language understanding technology backed by Citi, say the CLO market is a core industry for them as they seek to help market participants quickly assess loan and CLO documents -
Loan traders eagerly await electronic trading solution
1 year ago
The announcement of Octaura’s electronic loan and CLO trading platform last month has been met with positivity by market participants, who laud the unified approach taken by large investment banks in supporting the initiative -
Arcmont says liquid loan opportunities depend on timing as it advocates direct lending instead
1 year ago
Arcmont Asset Management has made the case for direct lending over syndicated loans in a white paper, despite having being an admirer of CLO management platforms -
LP round up: 28 credit managers win $6.6 billion as San Diego carves private credit allocation
1 year ago
Pensions allocated over $6.6 billion to credit managers in June including Angelo Gordon, Antares, Apollo, Ares, Beach Point, BioPharma, Brookfield, CarVal, Cerberus... -
Manager selection stakes are heightening as CLO pain points intensify: Barclays
1 year ago
CLOs’ slump in market value and piling of distressed assets have made differentiation between managers much more acute on key metrics, regionally and by vintage, according to Barclays credit strategists -
Octaura's real-time trading solution paves way for loans and CLOs to drop illiquid tag
1 year ago
The unprecedented cooperation between CLO trading desks that culminated last week in the launch of Octaura could change the way credit investors judge the relative value merits of loans and CLOs versus liquid alternatives such as high yield bonds -
CLO investors show more signs of optimism than other ABS: Barclays
1 year ago
CLO investors attending the Global ABS conference in Barcelona were more upbeat than those that work in residential mortgage-backed securities and other ABS, say Barclays securitised credit strategists. But the overall mood was sombre -
Revlon spares no blushes for CLO managers in filing for Chapter 11
1 year ago
Troubled lender Revlon Consumer Products filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy late Wednesday night. The default is likely to have a weighty impact on the CLO market -
US loan market drops to record low for 2022
1 year ago
The loan market reached a new record low for the year on Thursday with the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index trading at an average bid of just 93.66 cents on the dollar -
Onex points to "variety of personal and market" reasons as it addresses CLO exodus
1 year ago
Onex Credit Partners has responded to questions about the stream of professionals that have left in the last few months -
Seven dealers join forces over loan/CLO platform led by Bejile's Octaura
1 year ago
The industry-wide initiative to create an electronic loan and CLO trading platform has taken a big step forward with Citi’s Brian Bejile spearheading newly-formed Octaura Holdings. -
Silver Point hires experienced credit trader
1 year ago
Silver Point Capital has hired an official well-versed in CLOs -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs take first knock since covid scrapes
1 year ago
CLO managers have been hit by a number of loan downgrades to triple C for the first time since the wave of pandemic-related cuts trickled to a halt in early 2021. Companies indirectly linked to the health sector suffered most in May -
CSAM does the CLO awards double
1 year ago
Winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award is a feat in itself. Winning it back-to-back in such different markets is an outstanding achievement — and CSAM can take great pride in it -
You seem familiar
1 year ago
The overlap between European CLOs has risen to 51.6%, but the largest issuers are only slightly more aligned to their peers at 55.19% — so bonds are proving to be an important differentiator -
CEO steps down after DWS greenwashing allegations lead to police raid
1 year ago
A tumultuous 24 hours for DWS Group, in which police and regulators raided its office, has been compounded by the resignation of its chief executive officer Asoka Woehrmann on Wednesday morning -
Euro loan slide hits ramped warehouses as Carlyle eyes print and sprint deal
1 year ago
European loans tumbled in May, leaving CLO warehouses under pressure and causing a slowdown in primary issuance -
Investors turn to secondary market amid recession fear
1 year ago
CLOs and loans weathered a sudden sell-off in May as investors began to factor in a higher likeli-hood of recession -
US managers open new CLO warehouses at rapid rate
1 year ago
US CLO managers are opening new warehouse facilities at a rapid pace, with some sources suggesting the rate of new warehouse formation to be the fastest in years -
Past returns: Silvermine CLOs splash the cash
1 year ago
In Creditflux 10 years ago, we reported that three Silvermine Capital CLOs, which had built up $646.5 million of cash, had started buying loans again -
We’ll get through this awkward patch
1 year ago
Wide liabilities have made pricing CLOs trickier in the past few months. But speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium were optimistic that the arbitrage is OK — so long as you can place those triple As -
Fund performance: Credit hits another bump in the road after March revival
1 year ago
There was more upheaval for credit funds in April, reversing the mini-recovery in March as 40% of funds made positive returns, a decrease on the 47% in March -
Credit hedge funds (June 2022)
1 year ago
Credit hedge fund returns
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