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Beneath the triple C: Stormy October hits CLOs with rising tide of downgrades
1 year ago
After a slight respite in the pace of downgrades over the summer for CLOs, October brought renewed momentum as macro-economic pressures - primarily high interest rate burdens for corporate borrowers and supply side inflation - became the recurring rationale -
Beneath the triple C: US CLOs take a dip in the triple C as Europe watches from the sun lounger
1 year ago
The US CLO market bore the brunt of downgrades to triple C in July and August, with a total of $6.22 billion of paper affected. European CLOs enjoyed a more relaxing summer holiday, with only 1 name representing €33.88 million worth of bonds downgraded to triple C. -
CLO PM joins Ellington as it seeks expansion in credit and 'vanilla' CLOs
1 year ago
Ellington Management is pushing into corporate credit in a move which could culminate in launching US CLOs, sources say. -
CLOs at a glance (June 2021)
2 years ago
A listing of CLOs that have priced in the last month -
Ellington and MJX score refis of 2019 CLOs
3 years ago
Ellington Management Group and MJX Asset Management are the latest firms to print refinancings of 2019 CLOs -
CLO refi paper worth $1.61 billion hits market
3 years ago
Five managers have printed transactions worth a combined $1.61 billion over the last few days, in a CLO refinancing bonanza -
Four managers print $1.5 billion CLO refis
3 years ago
Four CLO managers - CVC Credit Partners, CarVal Investors, Ellington Management Group and Neuberger Berman - each priced a CLO refinancing transaction on Friday -
OC health check: CLOs wake up when September ends
3 years ago
September showed a slight but clear improvement in CLOs’ over-collateralisation test results as 182 CLOs breached an OC test during the reporting period, compared to 198 in August. -
OC health check: August reports slow torrent of fresh breaches to a trickle
3 years ago
198 CLOs reported an over-collateralisation (OC) breach in August, only three of which were completely new breaches. This is a slowdown from July, when 230 deals suffered some kind of OC breach, according to the latest reports from CLO-i -
iQor files for chapter 11 with CLOs holding $260 millon
3 years ago
17 CLO managers hold $263.1 million term loans of customer services provider iQor, which filed for chapter 11 protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas today -
Nassau confirms launch of European loan and CLO platform
3 years ago
Nassau Corporate Credit has launched a European loan and CLO platform with the $3.1 billion asset manager establishing a London office -
Ellington winds down European CLO warehouse as PM joins rival
3 years ago
Ellington Management is winding down its European CLO warehouse with Barclays, while Ellington's European CLO operations lead has left for a rival firm -
Beneath the triple C: CLOs get their sneakers on as retailers run into bankruptcy
3 years ago
July added further relief to CLO portfolios with the slowest rate of downgrades to triple C since March. US CLO portfolios faced downgrades of $2.18 billion to triple C while European portfolios faced just €59.13 million of such downgrades -
CLOs hold $600 million of bankrupt retailer Tailored Brands
3 years ago
Tailored Brands has become the latest US retailer to file for Chapter 11 as a result of the coronavirus-induced pandemic. 37 US CLO managers hold $588.9 million in term loans of the Houston-headquartered firm, -
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 -
OC health check: slowing of downgrades offers some reprieve for CLOs stuck in breach
3 years ago
89 deals reported overcollateralisation breaches last week, but only seven of these deals were breaching any OC test for the first time, according to the latest reports available on CLO-i -
OC health check: US CLOs hit by new round of test failures
4 years ago
135 deals breached an over-collateralisation test last week, 78 for the first time, according to the latest trustee reports from CLO-i. -
Flex CLOs tap mass downgrades to fill big triple C buckets
4 years ago
CLO managers are being hampered by the sheer volume of corporate credit downgrades to triple C, leaving the small cluster of triple C-flex CLOs to capitalise -
OC health check: failures lift above 100 as five more deals breach senior test
4 years ago
Another 116 CLOs have breached their overcollaterisation tests in the last week, according to the latest trustee reports on CLO-i. Out of this, five deals have failed OC tests for all classes – bringing the overall tally of deals that have breached senior OC tests to nine. -
Ellington European CLO still on table despite scrapped warehouse rating
4 years ago
DBRS Morningstar has discontinued ratings on the warehouse line backing the launch of Ellington Management’s debut European CLO, but sources say the CLO is still going ahead -
Investors query loan b-wic objectives as trade rates plummet
4 years ago
Over €1 billion worth of loan paper has appeared in the form of European loan b-wics in March, according to market sources. But buyer appetite has been low -
Ellington sells large chunk of assets from European CLO warehouse
4 years ago
Ellington Management sold €69.5 million from its CLO warehouse on a b-wic dated 12 March, according to market sources -
CLOs face losses as Constellis loan drops to 28.5
4 years ago
32 CLO managers hold $640.4 million of Constellis Holdings’ debt, which Moody's downgraded to C after the company missed an amortisation payment due 31 December -
Clover bankruptcy leaves print marks on CLOs
4 years ago
CLOs hold $256 million of the debt of printing supply company Clover Technologies Group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday -
Philadelphia Energy bankruptcy tars nine CLO managers with $241 million exposure
4 years ago
The Philadelphia-headquartered company has entered into bankruptcy protection for a second time, having only emerged from its first filing in August
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