Aegon prices first European CLO
Monday saw a significant moment in the European primary market – the return of the North Westerly CLO platform to new deal issuance after three years, now under the auspices of Aegon Asset Management

Aegon agrees to buy NIBC's CLO platform
Aegon Asset Management has agreed to buy NIBC’s North Westerly European CLO platform, which includes three deals alongside the NIBC CLO team

NIBC agrees to sell €500 million loan book
NIBC Bank has agreed to sell a €500 million mid-market loan portfolio to Oldenburgische Landesbank and Dutch insurer ASR. 

Investors behind CLO guarantees emerge as Assured wraps third deal
A bank and an insurer have emerged as the two investors behind Assured Guaranty’s financial guarantees of recent CLO trades. And Assured Guaranty has provided a guarantee to an investor on a third European CLO

Financial guarantees make comeback in European CLOs
European CLO tranche insurance has made a comeback, with sources indicating Assured Guaranty has guaranteed tranches in two Euro CLOs for two separate European investors (a bank and an insurance company) in the past month

NIBC scores tight execution on Euro CLO reset with triple As at 94bp
NIBC has scored tight execution on a reset of North Westerly V, with triple As pricing tighter than other recent new issue deals

NIBC takes ESG-scored European CLO tally to two with strong execution
NIBC has priced its latest ESG-branded European CLO, North Westerly VII

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Euro CLO league tables: new issues shatter 2018’s record but total issuance falls
The European CLO market continues to grow at a record shattering pace with 2019 new issuance volumes totalling €29.8 billion, an 8% increase on 2018’s previous record figure, from 53 active managers

Euro CLO league tables: GSO turbos charges its lead over CVC
GSO Capital Partners kept hold of the lead in the European CLO manager league tables thanks to its turbo charged reset of Holland Park

NIBC prices 'first fully-compliant' ESG CLO
NIBC Bank has priced North Westerly VI in a transaction which the firm describes as “the first CLO fully compliant with ESG best practices”

CLO pipeline: ESG, risk retention and secondary loans come to the fore
Managers new and old are trying different strategies and structures to price their latest deals    

European CLO manager hires MUFG for first 'fully compliant' ESG CLO
A CLO issuer is looking to take ESG compliance in European CLOs to another level by pitching its upcoming CLO as the “first fully ESG compliant CLO”, according to marketing materials seen by Creditflux

Onex brings in analyst from bank's European CLO management team
Onex has added another analyst to its team. The official joins from NIBC - one of the few banks to also dabble in CLO management