Creditflux CLO Symposium opens for booking
Our flagship CLO Symposium & Managers Awards is now open for registration. We will once again be returning to the Landmark Hotel in London on 15 May for this staple of the CLO community.

Creditflux announces date for 2024 CLO Symposium & Manager Awards
Our flagship CLO Symposium & Manager Awards will be returning on Wednesday 15 May 2024, and will once again be held at the Landmark Hotel in London

Making chances
From co-investments to stakes in junior capital and distressed credit, delegates at the Debtwire Private Credit Forum heard the sector offers a range of opportunities, even with deal-flow down

Lender on lender violence increasing as defaults tick up, conference hears
CLO managers are seeing an increase in aggressive lending practices as the long-anticipated rise in loan defaults begins to materialise, panelists at Debtwire's US Private Credit Forum said in New York on Wednesday

Market gears up for the Debtwire US Private Credit Forum 2023
Speakers in New York will discuss topics from LP insights and software lending to distressed situations and CLOs

CSAM makes it three-in-a row after Creditflux manager of the year award win
After a tumultuous last few months, Credit Suisse Asset Management is celebrating after winning the Creditflux Manager of the Year award for the third year running. 

CLO market needs a deeper investor base, conference hears
CLOs are toughing through the fallout from this month's banking crisis, but speakers at Creditflux's CLO Investor Summit in New York on Wednesday bemoaned that the market's investor base is lacking depth

US private credit has boomed amid BSL market shutdown, conference hears
US direct lending flourished over the last quarter with the asset class providing capital solutions and experiencing strong deployment, as volatility caused the large liquid loan market to shut down, according to panellists at Creditflux and Debtwire’s US Private Credit Forum on Tuesday

Representation really matters
At our London Women in CLOs event, Creditflux’s Tanvi Gupta and Michelle D’Souza spoke about how inspiring it can be to see someone who looks like you achieve success in your industry

Sofr, so complicated
At Creditflux’s US CLO Summit debate centred on Libor and Sofr. Hot topics included tenors, Libor floors being out-of-the money and investors changing their views on spread adjustments

Supporting the next generation
Creditflux’s third Women In CLOs event was held in New York in March, giving the industry’s rising stars a chance to network with senior credit professionals from the buy-side and sell-side

That’s another fine mezz I’d like to get into
Structural protection and flatter curves make short-dated mezz tranches attractive. Speakers at Credit Dimensions discuss which positions they’d take in CSOs, options and tranches this year

Women in CLOs, CLO Summit and Credit Dimensions to return to New York in March
Creditflux has announced our three New York events will now take place at the end of March. We will host Women in CLOs on 28 March, followed by the CLO Investor Summit on 29 March and Credit Dimensions, our event for the synthetic structured credit community, on 31 March

A brighter year ahead
Panellists on Creditflux’s CLO webinar described how CLO spreads are close to historic tights, ESG is entering the docs and managers have more flexibility with work-outs than ever before

CLO issuers flex their bond muscles
Some panellists at Creditflux’s US CLO Investor Summit pointed to structural difficulties, but the consensus was that flexibility — particularly the ability to buy bonds — could improve performance

Relative value has shifted towards CLO double Bs, conference hears
CLO double B tranches are on course for significant spread tightening, according to participants on day one of Creditflux's CLO Investor Summit on Thursday

They said it: "It’s been a tale of the haves and the have nots"
At Creditflux’s US Private Credit event, binary outcomes in direct lending were discussed

Faith in structures has been rewarded
CLOs have been resilient against covid-19 fallout, said speakers at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium last month. But there’s always room to improve and 3.0 deals may add ESG and bullet tranches

The tranche market shines, whatever your view on credit
Index tranche volumes have reached record levels this year and CSOs have withstood the covid crisis. Panellists at the Credit Dimensions webinar outlined a range of trades in a thriving market

European CLO volumes expected to rise and fall in coming months: Creditflux CLO Symposium
Europe's CLO primary market is gearing up for a busy few months as managers seek to term out pre-covid warehouses before they enter their amortization periods, but the longer-term outlook for issuance is more uncertain, according to panelists on the European CLO panel at Creditflux's CLO Symposium today