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Fitch expands ESG scores to America
6 months ago
Sustainable Fitch announced the US expansion of its ESG scores for leveraged finance today, designed to enable investors to compare metrics across CLO portfolios -
ELFA starts drive for consistent climate reporting in CLOs
6 months ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) has published a new report on CLO carbon and climate disclosures -
Elfa confirms launch of CLO ESG questionnaire
1 year ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association confirmed the launch of its new CLO ESG questionnaire which it says aims to “improve the quality of ESG reporting and data in the CLO market." -
Elfa prepares standardised ESG CLO questionnaire
1 year ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association is in the final stages of launching a standardised ESG questionnaire for the CLO market. Sources anticipate it will be published and distributed before the end of the year. -
Fitch launches ESG scoring for Euro lev fin issuers with 75% CLO coverage
1 year ago
Fitch has scored 430 individual borrowers in the European market, which are on average more than 75% of the portfolio in an average Fitch-rated European CLO -
Impact investor earns $146 million from US body for second CLO
1 year ago
An impact investment firm owned by M&G is poised to launch its second CLO, according to filings seen by Creditflux -
FinDox steps in on climate disclosure reporting for CLOs
1 year ago
FinDox has become involved in reporting on carbon data for climate-related financial disclosure regulations, having been mandated by leading CLO managers to source relevant ESG key performance indicators -
European CLO triple As widen to 140bp with long-awaited Permira deal
1 year ago
European CLO triple As have widened out to 140 basis points over Euribor, as Permira Credit breaks the two-week CLO market silence by pricing its long-awaited new issue deal, Providus CLO VII -
ESG investors bemoan corporate greenwashing
1 year ago
US CLO market participants have complained of loan issuer ‘greenwashing’ that aims to circumvent environment, social and governance portfolio restrictions -
Managers debate ethics of investments in arms makers
The armaments industry has for a long time been negatively perceived by CLO managers and investors alike. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked debate on the subject2 years ago -
Elfa launches ESG exclusion checklist to streamline process for CLO managers
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association has launched an environmental, social and governance exclusion checklist, which it says is designed to “streamline the negative screening and exclusion” for CLO managers -
CLO managers join forces as they line up behind SFDR
2 years ago
A plethora of European CLO managers have teamed up with regulatory reporting provider FinDox to form a working group focused on Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), sources tell Creditflux. -
CLO Census latest: voting crosses 200 as range of dealers lead in CLO origination
2 years ago
CLO market participants are placing value on the specialist service that dealers are providing, according to Creditflux’s CLO Census, with three different banks leading the way for US CLO execution, structuring and syndication. A silimar trend is in play in Europe -
The Last Tranche with Capital Four: 26% of new European loans have an ESG-linked margin ratchet, and the US could follow fast
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Capital Four's Torben Skødeberg and Jim Wiant discuss the emergence of loans linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria -
Fidelity to add ESG portfolio test in Article 8-aligned CLO
2 years ago
Fidelity International has taken ESG scoring in the CLO market a step further by including a new ESG portfolio profile test on an upcoming European CLO -
The Last Tranche with Bardin Hill's Raciti: For-profit prisons are classified as construction and have some of the best ESG scores
2 years ago
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Bardin Hill's Philip Raciti tells Creditflux that environmental, social and governance (ESG) is a growing risk factor for CLO managers -
CIFC's Vaccaro highlights importance of company culture [video]
2 years ago
CIFC Asset Management’s Steve Vaccaro gave an insight into his company’s approach to diversity and inclusion at Creditflux’s CLO Symposium earlier this month. He said that these values have been a focus for CIFC for a long time, culminating in the firm producing a CLO linked to a charitable initiative in May -
CarVal comes clean with ESG CLO platform launch
2 years ago
CarVal Investors has teamed with Insig AI to create a “clean CLO product line” through which it will issue ESG CLOs in the US -
Elfa taps Hermes to chair CLO investor committee
2 years ago
Trade body the European Leveraged Finance Association has formed a CLO investor committee it hopes will be a forum for various industry initiatives, including environmental, social and governance standards -
CLO arrangers roll out carpet for ESG CLO warehouses
2 years ago
US arranging banks are offering looser warehouse terms to CLO managers if they can confirm that the resulting CLO will be compliant with environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, sources have told Creditflux. -
Permira takes 2021 Euro CLO volume over €1.4 billion with 2019 deal reset
2 years ago
Barclays arranged the €349.7 million ESG-labelled CLO, in a first-time partnership for the pair -
CLO managers embed new EU sustainable disclosure language in docs after investor push
2 years ago
Bridgepoint, CSAM and Pinebridge are among managers to include language related to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, following a push from CLO investor Lupus alpha -
LSTA, LMA and Elfa publish standardised ESG questionnaire for CLO managers
2 years ago
The Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), Europe’s Loan Markets Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) – have teamed up to launch a new ‘standardised’ ESG due diligence questionnaire for CLO managers -
Elfa adds to ESG fact sheet range in standardisation drive
2 years ago
The European Leveraged Finance Association (Elfa) will shortly publish sector-specific fact sheets for the transport and healthcare industries, sources say, bringing its total of ESG fact sheets to 12 -
Partners prints five-year European CLO with ESG-scored deal
2 years ago
Partners becomes second European CLO manager to breakthrough the five year reinvestment period
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