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Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD
10 months ago
Global CLO league tables - May 2023 YTD -
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD
11 months ago
Global CLO league tables - April 2023 YTD -
Anchorage upsizes and targets this afternoon for Euro CLO pricing
1 year ago
Anchorage Capital is looking to price its European CLO this afternoon -
Anchorage targets this week to price European CLO
1 year ago
Anchorage Capital is looking to price its European CLO, Anchorage Capital Europe CLO 8, this week -
Global CLO league tables - February 2023 YTD
1 year ago
Global CLO league tables - February 2023 YTD -
CVC brings 2022 Euro CLO back to life
1 year ago
CVC Credit priced its European CLO new issue CVC Cordatus Loan Fund XXV-A on Friday via Citi, -
Cross Ocean prices European CLO triple As at 180bp
1 year ago
Cross Ocean Adviser has priced its second European CLO since taking over the Bosphorus platform from Commerzbank in December 2021 -
Energy co joins Europe's choir of fallen angel candidates as spreads soar
1 year ago
The financial market sell-off is entering acceleration, with credit indices blowing to new psychological levels and a growing number of investment grade companies reaching high yield spreads -
Investors look to US response after Putin lights touch paper on Ukraine intervention
2 years ago
Credit investors are left facing a what-happens-next moment after Vladimir Putin recognised the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent states, paving the way for Russian forces to intervene. In response the US has moved swiftly to impose new sanctions targeting the two regions -
Telco and retailer gap wider as PE firms circle
2 years ago
Telecom Italia is one of the Monday credit market's biggest underperformers, in an otherwise finely poised start to the week -
Palmer Square's Euro CLO AUM rockets to €1.8 billion in just 14 months
2 years ago
Palmer Square Capital Management has kept strong momentum with its European CLO ambitions after pricing its second European static CLO of the year on Friday via JP Morgan -
Chinese credit makes gains as Europe and US slump on Fed taper fears
2 years ago
Chinese credit spreads on Thursday depicted an island of optimism as global credit and stocks - including its own - slumped against a mounting confluence of concerns -
Cross Ocean targets up to $1 billion for European special situations fund
2 years ago
Cross Ocean Partners is seeking up to $1 billion for its latest European special situations fund -
Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
2 years ago
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources -
Renewed energy boosts credit as relief rally resumes
3 years ago
Energy companies are performing well and credit indices have resumed their push tighter after a strong surge inwards Monday, outpacing moves in other parts of the financial market -
It's all relative: senior CLO tranches tighten 18% in Europe as CDS indices sit out rally
The corporate credit rally in January is notable because some assets tightened to levels not seen in over a decade (loans), others rallied albeit with a lag (CLOs) and the most liquid stream of credit (CDS indices) defied moves in other asset classes to widen
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CLO pipeline: OFS to make comeback as 2020 absentees eye new issues
3 years ago
As liability spreads tighten day by day, the CLO pipeline is filling fast. 2020 absentees are joining the parade as four US managers and three European managers aim to return to the new issue market after taking a break of 12 months or longer -
CLO pipeline: 2020 absentees join new issue rush
3 years ago
The CLO pipeline is growing by the minute as managers prepare their first new issues of the year after varying lengths out of the market -
Europe leads corporate credit rally, but US outperforms in CLOs
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover has been the CDS market's outperformer this week, tightening over 30 basis points, or 11.4%, to trade at 235bp today. But in the CLO market, US deals have come out on top thanks to a BlackRock CLO that priced its double Bs at some of the tightest levels this year -
IG and crossover indices converge while European CLO double Bs rally
3 years ago
iTraxx Crossover is again outperforming Main today with the investment grade index widening 0.11bp to 52.56bp while the crossover index is 2.42bp tighter to 296.99bp. Meanwhile bank research signals that junior CLO tranches could benefit as investors look at covid industries through a different lense -
Palmer Square achieves tightest cost of debt for European CLO since March sell-off
3 years ago
Recent European CLO debutant Palmer Square Capital Management priced its second static CLO on the continent last week -
Beneath the triple C: downgrades hold steady as Travelport loses its luggage
3 years ago
For the second month in a row downgrades to triple C steadied, with just under $9 billion of CLO loans falling to this rating across 34 corporate borrowers -
Beneath the triple C: downgrade rate slows as $8 billion of CLO loans tumble
3 years ago
May offered some respite to CLO portfolios as corporate downgrades to triple C were reduced heavily - affecting just $6.67 billion of US CLO paper and €1.09 billion of European CLO portfolios -
Bankruptcies mount with CLOs not on level playing field
3 years ago
Over $2.4 billion of CLO collateral has been caught up in bankruptcies since coronavirus-related volatility began, according to CLO-i. Bankruptcies are not a level playing field for CLOs - and although documention ammendments on what a CLO can or cannot do in a restructuring are not happening yet, sources say talks may arise in the future -
Beneath the triple C: April showers send buckets overboard
3 years ago
Downgrade waves rocked the CLO market in April as Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded 135 corporate borrowers to triple C or below, from ratings above that level. The downgrades put CLOs in rough waters as $41.6 billion of such loans are prevalent in US CLOs while €5.64 are moored in European CLO portfolios – affecting 5.92% of the US market and 4.37% of the European market
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