Spread adjustment curve emerges for ground-breaking Walker & Dunlop Sofr loan
Walker & Dunlop has changed the credit spread adjustment (CSA) on its fully-Sofr $600 million loan, Debtwire reports, with a varied structure depending on the benchmark tenor    

Zais CLO reset prices wide of market, but strong portfolio boosts junior tranches
Zais Group has followed up its new issue CLO last month by resetting a 2020 CLO, sources say. Just like Zais CLO 17, the reset Zais 16 was arranged by Jefferies, and again priced substantially wide of market averages. However, the junior notes priced in line with, and at times tighter than, Zais 17 – perhaps reflecting the strong positioning of Zais 16’s portfolio.

Apex refinances triple A-free CLO from 2019
Apex Credit has refinanced an unusual CLO from 2019 that was structured without triple A-rated debt liabilities

The Last Tranche with Capital Four: 26% of new European loans have an ESG-linked margin ratchet, and the US could follow fast
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

Livermore reveals latest US CLO anchor equity position
CLO equity investor Livermore Investments Group has revealed its latest anchor equity stake investment

TCW launches 'first' ESG-labelled structured credit fund in the US
TCW has launched what it claims to be the first dedicated structured credit fund with an ESG-label in the US

Assured prints second European CLO new issue of 2021
Assured Investment Management (Fuji) has priced its second new issue European CLO of this year, named BlueMountain Euro CLO 2021-2

Carlyle breaks records with 10th US CLO of 2021
Carlyle Group has become the first CLO manager to price 10 US new issues in the space of a year

Elmwood includes single B piece in new $608 million CLO
Elmwood Asset Management grew its 2021 CLO book to $3.6 billion after pricing its seventh deal of the year on Wednesday

Octagon scores new $500m CLO via Barclays
Octagon Credit Investors priced its seventh new CLO of 2021 on Wednesday, partnering with Barclays on the $509.3 million deal named Octagon Investment Partners 57

Putnam returns to CLOs after 17 years with Morgan Stanley-arranged comeback deal
Putnam Investments priced its comeback CLO on Wednesday after teaming up with Morgan Stanley

AMMC lowers 2020 CLO funding costs by 48bp with refi
American Money Management Corporation refinanced its late 2020 CLO AMMC 23 on Wednesday, lowering the deal's funding costs by 47.99 basis points in the process

Vibrant hires to structured credit team in New York
Vibrant Capital Partners has hired a vice president to its structured credit team

Anchorage partially refis Euro CLO with less than year left of reinvestment
Anchorage Capital has opted to partially refinance its debut European CLO, which ends reinvestment in July next year

Guggenheim splits double Bs and merges triple As in US CLO refi
Guggenheim Investments refinanced Guggenheim 2019-1 on Tuesday night via MUFG and opted to split its double B-rated D tranche in doing so

Capital structure revealed for Beach Point debut CLO
The world welcomed a new CLO manager on Friday as Beach Point Capital Management issued its inaugural deal via JP Morgan

Angelo Gordon prints second new CLO of 2021
Angelo Gordon priced its second new CLO of the year on Tuesday, bringing its 2021 issuance volume over $800 million

AGL upsizes debut CLO by $54 million with reset
AGL Credit Management reset its debut CLO from 2019 named AGL CLO I on Friday, upsizing the deal by $54 million in the process

Tikehau scores 99bp triple As on Euro CLO reset but mezz trails wide of market
Tikehau Capital has scored tight triple As on the reset of its 2016 vintage European CLO, Tikehau CLO II, but mezz tranches trails slightly wider

CLO Census latest: banks in tight race, 51% optimistic on Sofr and large managers viewed as outperformers
More than 100 CLO market participants have already cast their vote in the most tightly-contested Creditflux CLO Census ever with a single vote separating the top three banks at US and European CLO execution. Meanwhile, most voters are unworried by the Sofr migration and BlackRock, CSAM, CIFC and PGIM are among the CLO managers viewed as having outperformed following the covid crash. Click here to vote: CreditfluxCLOCensus2021

US CLO pipeline: newcomers look to follow Beach Point's lead by pricing before year-end
Beach Point Capital Management became the latest debut issuer in the US CLO market on Friday, and Sycamore Tree Capital Partners and Putnam Investments are set to join it    

US insurers’ CLO investments pose “insignificant risk”, NAIC reports
US insurer’s investments in CLOs remains an “insignificant risk”. That’s according to a report released last week by the National Association of Insurance Companies entitled Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) – Stress Testing U.S. Insurers’ Year-End 2020 Exposure

KKR announces new co-CEOs as Kravis and Roberts step down
KKR has announced the appointment of its second ever pair of co-chief executive officers, effective immediately, replacing co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts

Medalist prices first new US CLO since January 2020
Medalist Partners has priced its first new US CLO since it took full control of Medalist Partners Corporate Finance (formerly known as JMP Credit Advisors) from JMP Group in July, ending a 21-month break from the CLO primary market

BNP Paribas markets Partners European CLO new issue and PGIM reset
BNP Paribas is marketing a new issue European CLO managed by Partners Group and PGIM’s reset of its 2018 vintage deal Dryden 69, according to market sources