US extends broad hit on credit but German resi giant faces personal dramas
Travel related companies are among those hit hardest in credit as the Tuesday sell off deepens with the US trading session, but investors in German real estate company Adler have endured a torrid day as they digest its third quarter results

CLO pricing holds up against omicron as liquid credit takes a hammering
Being illiquid sometimes has its advantages, with the CLO market the picture of serenity as CDS swings imply volatility is afoot

CLO lower cap stack will outperform with $175bn new issuance in 2022: JP Morgan
Equity and lower rated tranche investors will do best as $175 billion of global new CLO issuance arrives in 2022, predict JP Morgan strategists in their annual outlook, taking market size to $1.2 trillion

Brigade bolsters 2019 US CLO with refi
Brigade Capital Management has refinanced debt tranches of a US CLO it signed in 2019, tightening the capital stack

Reality check for credit as omicron research timeline extends
Another dose of harsh reality has sunk into financial markets on Tuesday, as investors continue to reappraise the impact of tightening travel restrictions and the timeline for pharmaceutical work to address the omicron covid-19 variant

Ex-Citi structured products co-head launches crypto investment firm
Citi's former structured products trading co-head has launched a venture investment firm for crypto companies, digital assets and blockchain protocols with an inaugural $1.5 billion multi-strategy venture

CQS becomes US CLO market's sixth debut manager of 2021
CQS on Monday became the sixth debut entrant into the US CLO market in 2021 by pricing its inaugural deal via Jefferies

AGL issues fourth core CLO with low leverage ratio
AGL Credit Management has priced the fourth in its 'core' series of low-levered CLOs, pairing with BNP Paribas to print the deal

LCM tightens post-reinvestment CLO by 28 basis points with three-tranche refi
LCM Asset Management refinanced three tranches of its 2013 CLO named LCM CLO XIII on Monday, tightening the deal by 27.9 basis points

The Last Tranche with Napier Park's Secmen: tailwinds fuelling CLO market mask manager incompetence
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Serhan Secmen, head of US CLO investments at Napier Park Global Capital, joins to discuss how equity investors choose which managers to allocate to for the best long-term performance

Traders hunt for Monday bargains in Black Friday debris
The turmoil of Black Friday has given way to a counter-wise move on Monday, with financial markets latching onto scraps of hope over the weekend following the panic of a newly discovered covid-19 variant

US travel, energy and retail credits take big hit as variant rout extends
The widening trend in credit is extending as the weekend approaches, with US spreads picking up the baton from Europe's earlier surge

Past form points to bleak picture for IG fund flows as new covid variant emerges: BofA
With a new covid-19 variant for investors to worry about, faltering high grade fund flows face additional headwinds versus high yield and government bonds

Nu variant panic sends credit spreads to the year's wides
The discovery of a new covid-19 variant has routed financial markets at the end of what had already been a dour week, sending credit spreads to their widest of the year

AB sharply tightens mid-market CLO debt stack with refi
AB Private Credit Investors (formerly AllianceBernstein) has refinanced  debt tranches from late 2020 mid-market CLO, greatly narrowing spreads in the capital stack

Mount Logan adds junior debt in reset of 2018 mid-market CLO
Mount Logan has reset a Us mid-market CLO it signed in 2018, increasing the size of the deal and shaving the cost of the capital stack and adding junior tranches

Marble Point cuts CLO tranches into bite-size pieces as Morgan Stanley lays table for three
Marble Point Credit is among three US CLO managers giving thanks to Morgan Stanley after the bank priced three deals ahead of the US public holiday today

Convergence traders dine out as Europe widens in US absence
Traders betting on Europe / US credit convergence have much to be thankful for on Thursday, with the gap between investment grade CDS spreads having vanished and high yield noticeably reduced

CarVal keeps it clean as it leverages ESG technology for US CLO
CarVal Investors on Wednesday produced the first of its ‘clean’ CLOs in a $433.6 million deal arranged by Morgan Stanley that is among the few this year to have single B debt

Napier Park goes back for seconds with another November CLO via Nomura
Napier Park Global Capital on Wednesday priced its second new issue US CLO via Nomura this month 

Neuberger serves up same old CLO triple A print
Neuberger Berman has priced its seventh new US CLO of the year, and fourth consecutive deal with a triple A print at 113 basis points

US CLO pipeline: Carlyle and Blackstone aim for CLO-a-month 2021 as BlackRock goes for baker's quadruple
The Thanksgiving holiday has not dampened the US CLO market’s appetite as a flurry of deals are set to price in the next couple of weeks. That includes 18 new deals, 11 resets and seven refinancings in the US

Irradiant three-year CLO reveals not much gRadiant in pricing curve
Irradiant Partners has priced its second new issue CLO of the month and third under the new Rad branding

Dispersion returns at wide end as credit deterioration extends
Credit spreads are back to their widest since mid-October - and approaching the year's extremes - amid a second straight session of sharp deterioration

Loans will be winners in bearish year for credit: BNP Paribas
Floating rate loans are best positioned for a year of widening credit spreads, but high yield bonds will outperform investment grade and EM credit is set for losses, says BNP Paribas in its 2022 outlook