2022 vintage CLO generates record European IRR as loan prices rally
While most managers have reset 2022 CLOs, Apollo-affiliated Redding Ridge took a different route. It called RRE 14 CLO, achieving the highest IRR of any European CLO

Banks predict steady year ahead
It’s the season for predictions and the CLO market is no exception, with all the banks having their say. We’ve rounded up their forecasts for new issuance and resets in the US and Europe

2023: a bumper year for CLO funds
It looks like 2023 will finish as a solid year for most credit funds, and an outstanding one for CLO funds. But funds pursuing corporate distressed strategies continued to struggle

Tightening spreads show market’s growing maturity
As another tumultuous year ends, we review how CLO spreads are looking around the world. In summary? Given current macroeconomic woes, the situation could have been much worse

How worried should we be about defaults?
As defaults in the US loan market continue to stack up, we investigate the fallout for CLO investors by focusing on the OC tests of double B tranches across 10 years of US CLO vintages

What CLO investors really need to know
From the drivers of CLO performance to cashflow modelling, these are the seven things every CLO equity investor needs to know. This article is an extract from Dealscribe and CLO Research’s guide What CLO Equity Investors Need To Know

Fund performance
Q4 has kicked off with structured finance funds leading the way in the Creditflux league tables, as the category index reached 0.61%, and all but one fund made positive returns.

CLOs at a glance
CLOs at a glance

Private credit’s abundant dry powder is great news for CLOs as well as borrowers
The recent rapid growth in private credit funds has garnered much attention from market participants and media pundits. While naysayers warn that this “shadow banking” channel could be a bubble waiting to burst in the higher-for-longer environment, issuers and investors continue to flock to the asset class.

KKR adds US reset to 2023 tally
In what is likely to be one of the last primary market CLOs to price in 2023, KKR last week reset its 2022-vintage US BSL KKR CLO 43, with Deutsche Bank acting as sole arranger

KopenTech adds all-to-all electronic trading for CLOs
KopenTech has launched a new all-to-all trading protocol for CLO securities and successfully completed its first two trades, a trading model where all market participants, whether on the sell-side or the buy-side, can anonymously trade with each other

Diameter joins the 2022 reset club
New York-based Diameter Capital Partners priced a reset of its largest CLO to date last week, with the debt tranches on the 2022-vintage Diameter Capital CLO 4 upsized from USD 445m to 451.25

European ABS and CLOs rally on Fed rates forecast
Trading activity in European ABS and CLOs was strong on Thursday after the Federal Reserve signalled it would cut rates in 2024

Generate and Citi breathe new life into old CLO
Generate Advisors, the CLO management arm of Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, crowned a successful year in the US market with the shock reset of a 2016 vintage deal

November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 US Leveraged Highlights, featuring key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets

November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights
Debtwire today releases the November 2023 European Leveraged Highlights, containing key trends in the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets

Investcorp makes late break to join 2023 new US issuers
Investcorp Credit Management foreshadowed a new US CLO with guidance offered on Harvest US CLO 2023-1, a BSL deal arranged by Deutsche Bank

BofA adds 2020 vintage reset for Sixth Street
Sixth Street reset a 2020-vintage deal on Friday in a reminder that 2022 isn't the only vintage to watch

Blue Owl cuts equity by a third in reset of 2019 CLO
Blue Owl last week capped off a busy 12 months with a dramatic reset of its first-ever private credit CLO, the 2019-vintage Owl Rock CLO I – marking the manager’s 24th middle market deal

BofA upsizes Symphony 37 in latest reset
Nuveen this week reset its Symphony 37 CLO a year after its initial closing with a considerable upsize compared with the original short-dated 2022 vintage deal

US CLO rankings - November 2023 YTD
Our latest rankings for the US BSL CLO market, including volumes and arranger and manager league tables

European CLO rankings - November 2023 YTD
Our latest rankings for the European BSL CLO market, including volumes and arranger and manager league tables

US MM CLO rankings - November 2023 YTD
Our latest rankings for the US MM CLO market, including volumes and arranger and manager league tables

Second US infrastructure CLO this year prices
DWS Group has priced the latest of its infrastructure-focused RIN series of CLOs, with a USD 350m deal arranged by Société Générale

Middle market issuance continues with Deerpath deal
Deerpath Capital Management has priced its second new middle market deal this year, a transaction valued at USD 353.65m featuring three fixed-rate tranches