Triple B spreads reach new tights as Blackstone prints European CLO
Blackstone Group has got off the mark in 2023, pricing its first European CLO and in the process taking triple B spreads to just 520 basis points

Permira brings in Carlyle European special sits co-head for new business
Permira has strengthened its new strategic opportunities busines

Trinitas prices senior notes at 175bp with new European CLO
Trinitas Capital Management has produced a strong showing after pricing its second new European CLO

Natixis fills European CLO trading seat with hire from buy side
Natixis has filled a gap on its European secondary CLO

Redding Ridge prices European CLO via Goldman Sachs
Redding Ridge Asset Management has priced a €392.675 million CLO via Goldman Sachs, with triple A notes paying 175 basis points over Euribor.

SMBC Nikko hires head of European CLO and ABS trading
SMBC Nikko’s structured credit expansion has taken another big step forward

Amundi aims for €600m for new senior mortgage fund
Amundi is launching Amundi Commercial Real Estate Loans II, a European senior mortgage fund

Tikehau markets European CLO with BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas is in the market with a new European CLO for Tikehau Capital which is anticipated to price next week

CVC revives European CLO that was paused following Nochu withdrawal
CVC Credit Partners is close to issuing a European CLO with sources indicating that the firm could price CVC Cordatus Loan Funding XXV-A next week

Goldman Sachs looks to extend European CLO issuance lead with Redding Ridge mandate
Goldman Sachs’s European CLO business is in full flight with the bank marketing yet another deal. It's a reversal in fortune for the bank, which went a full eight months without pricing a CLO in 2022. 

Onex promotes key CLO official to managing director in London
Onex Credit Partners has promoted its European CLO head 

Pemberton raises $1bn for rare working capital finance strategy
Pemberton says it has raised $1 billion for its working capital finance strategy, in what it believes makes Pemberton one of the first asset managers to offer such a short-term credit strategy to institutional investors

Invesco and BNP smash Euro CLO benchmark with 165bp triple A print
The European CLO triple A benchmark this year has dropped to 165 basis points over Euribor, 20bp inside deals earlier this year

Whitestar markets European CLO via JP Morgan
JP Morgan is arranging the €346.6 million deal, which is anticipated to price the week starting 20^th February

Hilltop hires CIO for real estate credit business
European real estate credit specialist Hilltop Credit Partners says it has hired Claudiu Gheorghita as chief investment officer.

Invesco tests 165bp for European CLO triple As
Invesco is testing the European CLO market with triple As at 165 basis points over Euribor, almost 20bp inside the latest three deals 

Cross Ocean targets next week pricing for European CLO via Deutsche Bank
The CLO’s triple As are 0.8 times covered at 180 to 185 basis points, the latest marketing blast reveals

Euro CLO league tables: Three managers take advantage of tightening to kick off the year
The European CLO market started 2023 considerably tighter than where it left in 2022, with triple A spreads tightening by as much as 35 basis points

Global CLO league tables - January 2023 YTD
Global CLO league tables - January 2023 YTD

Carlyle appoint former Goldman executive as CEO
Carlyle Group have appointed former Goldman Sachs Co-President and CO-Chief Operating Officer Harvey Schwartz as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board, the firm has announced.

Barings prints European CLO wide of recent deals
The CLO’s floating triple As, for example, priced at 220 basis points over Euribor, 36bp wider than Capital Four CLO V earlier this week

Credit Rendezvous: Make yourself comfortable, there’s a storm coming
In our Q1 outlook, we speak to Edwin Wilches, PGIM (US CLOs), Mikkel Sckerl and Flemming Dose, Capital Four (European CLOs),  Jim Fitzpatrick, CQS (US loans), Loic Prevot, Polus (European loans), Madelaine Jones, Oaktree (global high yield), Art Penn, Pennant Park (US direct lending), Mattis Poetter, Arcmont (European direct lending), Keerthi Raghavan, Waterfall (structured credit), Ray Costa, Benefit Street (distressed), Grant Webster, Ninety One (Emerging markets), Oumar Diallo, Aeon (real assets) for their views for the upcoming quarter. 

Blackstone pre-markets European CLO via BofA
It follows just over two months after Blackstone priced its last European CLO, Edmondstown Park CLO