European CLO spreads show signs of tightening as BNP Paribas AM prices new issue
BNP Paribas Asset Management returned to the CLO primary market yesterday, issuing its first new deal of the year, named BNPP AM Euro CLO 2019

Sound Point readies second European CLO after debuting in April
Sound Point Capital Management has launched its second CLO in Europe

European spreads come in as CVC prices latest CLO via BAML
European CLO spreads dipped tighter yesterday as CVC Credit Partners issued its latest deal with triple As pricing at 110 basis points

MJX cuts 15bp off triple A spread following CLO reset
MJX Asset Management returned to the CLO primary market on Friday to reset its 2013 vintage deal named Venture XV

Euro CLO round-up: returnee CIFC comes full circle, seven years after CLO sale
Having sold a European CLO contract seven years ago, CIFC is back and determined to build on its debut 2.0 European CLO

CVC targets 110bp triple A print as European CLO spreads show signs of tightening
CVC Credit Partners is close to pricing a European CLO, with price guidance suggesting strong demand for the deal's debt

CLO investors should be looking at CSOs

Upper mid-market yields value on price and leverage
Direct lenders are getting access to greater deal flow in the upper middle-market with private equity sponsors leaning towards private credit after a torrid end to last year in the broadly syndicated loan market.

Investments in CSOs can be more fruitful than in CLOs

Pimco plans CLO management return after 12-year absence
Pimco is lining up a return to CLO management, over a decade after its last deal. The Newport Beach-based firm has been absent from the primary market since pricing Portola in November 2007.

Carlyle brings in Kroll to rate new European CLO as spreads tighten
Carlyle Group priced its second new issue European CLO in 2019 in a transaction which went through yesterday via Citi

UK transitions to post-Libor era with array of Sonia-linked deals
The UK’s structured finance market has moved to swiftly embrace the daily compounded benchmark Sonia (Sterling overnight index average) ahead of the 2021 phase out of Libor.

US CLO managers see positives as docs include negative notation language to ease move to new reference rate
Europe might be making progress, but US CLO managers are less than preoccupied with the looming transition away from US dollar-Libor based pricing. 

Insurers dump floating rate CLOs
Two large insurance firms rotated out of floating rate CLOs by selling roughly $259 million of single A notes via b-wics last month, according to market sources.

Chenavari changes tack and chooses vertical risk retention in first CLO for 17 months
Chenavari Investment Managers is set to end its near 17-month absence from the CLO primary market

BNP Paribas AM targets Europe's tightest CLO print since April
BNP Paribas Asset Management is targeting a 111 basis point triple A spread on its forthcoming CLO, according to market sources

Fresh out the box: manager readies debut CLO via JP Morgan
A US fund manager is launching its debut CLO - and there's not much in the way of triple A debt 

PGIM goes all in as it refis 2016 CLO for second time
Having refinanced the junior debt in a US CLO last year, PGIM has refied the entire capital stack of its 2016-vintage CLO

Europe welcomes CIFC after manager prices its debut 2.0 CLO
CIFC Asset Management has made the breakthrough in Europe, pricing its debut 2.0 CLO on the continent today

Euro CLO round-up: smaller (and newer) issuers print deals as spreads edge wider
It has been a relatively busy week for the European CLO market after three new deals priced to end a 17- day silence in the primary market. The quiet spell was broken by smaller CLO issuers.

Palmer Square issues senior notes at 85bp in latest static CLO
Senior CLO financing costs have made a big move tighter after Palmer Square Capital Management priced its third static CLO of the year.

Onex produces its second US CLO of the year as spreads tighten
Onex Credit Partners has priced its CLO triple As at 133 basis points as part of a US new issue transaction which was executed on Friday.

AA Battery: GSAM powers back into the CLO market and merges senior tranches
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, itself a large buyer of senior CLO paper, has priced its first 2.0 CLO, but with the absence of a regular triple A-rated tranche

Apollo's MidCap returns to mid market CLOs with $509 million deal
MidCap Financial priced its first middle market CLO of the year yesterday, ending the manager’s 11 month hiatus

MeDirect prices debut European CLO as equity goes to third parties
MeDirect Bank has priced a new European CLO via Barclays today in a deal where the equity was syndicated to third parties. Chief investment officer Michael Curtis tells Creditflux that this is part of the firm's build out of an asset management busines