Hidden loan tail risks and mounting single B exposure could pose problem for CLOs: Barclays
A solid rally for leveraged loans this week - against returning weakness in bonds - has put focus back on the market, which seemingly has little tail risk priced in. But short term support factors and a dwindling triple C bucket mask the quality skew, warn Barclays strategists in a note today - which could spell downgrades for single-B minus rated loans

Mezz and junior debt tighten sharply with BlackRock European CLO
BlackRock has issued its latest European CLO via Bank of America, with pricing on lower mezzanine tranches pointing to tightening in the market

Global CLO league tables - March 2022 YTD
Global CLO league tables - March YTD

Euro CLO league tables: Jefferies takes huge lead as managers bunch up
The increased volatility and geopolitical risk brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine meant European CLO issuance dropped off in March after a strong February

BlackRock Euro CLO set to price, with KKR and ICG in line and 115bp emerging as triple A benchmark
BlackRock is expected to price a European CLO issue today via Bank of America. The immediate CLO pipeline is thin, but KKR is marketing a deal via Morgan Stanley and ICG is marketing via Citi

Capital Four expands in Europe with Frankfurt office
Capital Four has expanded its presence in Europe by opening a Frankfurt office

Bain goes long with new European CLO as 2022 issuance passes €15 billion
Credit Suisse arranged Bain’s €416.72 million deal, named Bain Capital Euro CLO 2022-1, which features a 4.6 year reinvestment period and a two year non-call

WhiteStar gets off the mark in Europe with reset of 2020 CLO
WhiteStar Asset Management has reset a 2020 vintage former MacKay Shields European CLO, slashing triple As down to 117 basis points over Euribor and adding additional equity

European CLO triple As slide over 30bp in a month
Partners Group has priced Penta CLO 11 today, sources say with the triple A notes pricing at 125bp. This confirms that senior CLO notes are now in the 120-125bp range, having been 30bp tighter just a month ago

PGIM prints European CLO with triple As at 120bp
PGIM priced its latest European CLO, Dryden 91 Euro CLO 2021, today via Citi with triple As at 120bp

Diameter moves into Europe with top credit trading hire
Diameter Capital is expanding in Europe with a big sell-side hire

European CLO triple As set to hit 120bp with PGIM pricing today
PGIM is poised to price a European CLO today with sources indicating that the deal – Dryden 91 – is due to issue senior notes at 120 basis points. This is set to be the new benchmark, but it is almost 30bp wide of levels in mid-February  

CLO lawyer joins Schulte Roth & Zabel as partner in London
Schulte Roth & Zabel has hired a CLO expert as partner in its London office 

Accunia eyes secondary CLO equity through new fund
Accunia Credit Management has raised a new CLO fund

European CLOs well-placed to counter volatility: Fitch
High inflation could hamper borrowers, but European CLOs are in decent shape with most loan issuers having refinanced last year, according to a report by Fitch Ratings. Other parts of structured credit are not as well insulated against risks. 

Static Euro CLO triple A basis disappears as Palmer Square prints
Palmer Square Capital Management has printed its latest static European CLO, Palmer Square European Loan Funding 2022-2

Hayfin short-dated Euro CLO features loan tranche and StanChart as co-placement agent
Hayfin Capital Management has become the latest manager to print a shorter-dated, 3.13-year reinvestment European CLO

Investcorp triple As hit 110bp in first Euro CLO of year
Jefferies arranged the €451.9 million deal, named Harvest XXVIII, which Investcorp upsized from €400 million

Chenavari Euro CLO brings another co-placement agent role for Standard Chartered
JP Morgan was lead arranger and co-arranger on Chenavari’s latest €307.4 million deal, named Toro European CLO 8, with Standard Chartered a co-placement agent

CBAM: star power, friends in insurance, and doing things 'my way'
"And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain... I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and every highway, And more, much more
I did it, I did it my way". Sinatra could easily have been thinking of CBAM when he penned these lyrics. We look back at how a group of experienced CLO officials came together to launch a mega player in the CLO business in no time at all 

Napier prints short-dated Euro CLO with low ramped warehouse
Standard Chartered picked up another co-placement agent role, while Jefferies was lead arranger on the upsized Henley CLO VII

Fitch upgrades 48% of European CLO tranches placed 'under criteria observation'
Fitch Ratings has resolved the 1,246 European CLO notes it placed ‘Under Criteria Observation’ in September, after updating its CLO rating criteria

Signal hires former BlueBay official to build European CLO platform
Signal Capital has appointed a partner and head of leveraged credit for its newly-established CLO platform

Elfa slams aggressive voting cap provisions in European lev loan deal
"These covenant terms severely undermine the notion of equal contractual rights and pro-rata principles for creditors," Elfa said