Niagara falls: CLO spreads come down in Blackstone refi to highlight 2019 v 2021 basis
Blackstone Credit has refinanced one of its 2019 US CLOs. The CLO, Niagara Park CLO, has three years of reinvestment remaining and while the seniors priced inside the five-year Point Au Roche (100bp to 108bp), mezzanine tranches were wider despite the refi's shorter tenor.

Global CLO pricing lab: let’s all point at that 108bp print while spreads leak out
The tsunami of CLO paper coming to market is the biggest technical factor causing spreads to widen, according to sources

Euro CLO league tables: out with the old, in with the new as Jefferies leads way
Despite being a newcomer to the European CLO market this year, Jefferies has taken the market by storm and leads the way in overall European CLO issuance

Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - May 2021 YTD

US CLO league tables: CIFC makes big leap but CSAM and JP Morgan retain leads
There has been no change atop the US CLO league tables, but Credit Suisse Asset Management’s and JP Morgan’s leads are dwindling

US triple As narrow to 108bp as Blackstone prints yet another new CLO
Blackstone Credit brought the CLO market tighter on Friday by printing a new deal with triple As at just 108 basis points over Libor

Blackstone CLO origination head relocates to London
Blackstone’s global head of capital formation liquid credit has relocated from New York to London

CLO pipeline: queue gets longer as Blackstone goes again and Sancus makes first move
The queue to price for US CLO managers is only getting larger with 18 new issue CLOs in the pipeline, according to market sources, along with 18 repricings and two new issue European CLOs and two mid market CLO resets

Blackstone and Credit Suisse among participants in talks for new ESG loan index
European leveraged loan market participants – including Blackstone and Credit Suisse – are said to be in the process of launching the ESG loan index

Blackstone goes on coffee run as it picks up control equity in five European CLOs
Blackstone Credit appears to have bought the CLO equity notes of five European CLOs in a transaction dubbed ‘Project Coffee’

CLO pipeline: US market on track for June boom
CLO issuance is set to boom in the coming weeks with the pipeline ballooning as the market looks ahead to June

Global CLO trading lab: Octagon CLO comes out top in CLO double B spike
Double B-rated bonds made up 40% of the European and US CLO secondary markets last week. $222 million of US CLO double B bonds were on sale and a further €105 million of European CLO double B items were listed

US CLO spreads tighten sharply as Blackstone prints record fifth new issue of 2021
Blackstone Credit became the first CLO manager to issue five new US CLOs this year on Monday, securing the lowest funding costs in over a month in the process

Global CLO pricing lab: investors get over fatigue and embrace reset roll over
The demand for CLOs is showing no signs of slowing down after the market had experienced some fatigue at the end of the first quarter and into the second. In the last two weeks, there have been 47 CLO transactions across all forms of pricing in the three markets; led by 18 US CLO new issues

CLO pipeline: new issue becomes name of game with 14 managers preparing to price
Only $3.2 billion of CLO paper priced globally across all forms of pricings this past week. But the market looks to set to explode back into life with 14 US CLO new issues in the pipeline

Woah, we’re halfway there
Judging by the 2020 vintage, European CLO overlap is 50%. But varied approaches to holding bonds and the many loans managers turn down mean there are ways for issuers to outperform

Euro CLO league tables: cramming a year's worth of work in two months
It is no surprise the European CLO market has been experiencing fatigue at times this year with the last two months of issuance alone almost equalling issuance figures for the whole of 2020: last year €22.78 billion worth of European CLOs priced, while in March and April 2021, managers brought €21.48 billion to market

Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD
Global CLO league tables - April 2021 YTD

LP round up: $3.2 billion flows to 21 managers as private credit illiquidity premium holds firm
Investors allocated at least $3.2 billion to credit managers in April - and direct lending funds were in favour with Churchill and Ares being awarded two mandates

Record-breaking Apollo and Blackstone European CLOs make first distributions
Two 2020 CLOs managed by Blackstone Credit and Redding Ridge (Apollo) that set equity cover records in the secondary CLO market earlier this year have made their first payments

Blackstone Euro CLO seniors come at wide end of guidance but mezz beats expectations
GreensLedge and Natwest Markets have made their comeback to European CLO arranging

Blackstone scores tight debt pricing with fourth new US CLO of 2021
Blackstone Credit became the third CLO manager to print a fourth US new issue of 2021 on Monday, teaming up with Citi on its latest transaction named Rockland Park CLO

CLO pipeline: go long! new issues and resets push refis aside
The CLO market is ready to go beyond refinancings - after this year's opening blitz of those deals - into the longer tenored territory of resets and new issues

Credit Rendezvous: ready and waiting
In Creditflux's quarterly review of credit, portfolio managers tell us that Inflation is likely to nudge higher but they are optimistic because dispersion will pick up and windows of volatility will emerge, rather than elongated phases of stress 

Blackstone resets one of market's final pre-covid CLOs
Blackstone Credit has teamed up with Citi to reset its 2020 vintage CLO named Harriman Park