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Refis, resets and new issues all on offer as Five Arrows, Apollo, Neuberger Berman, Ares and Oaktree price deals
European CLO ETFs' total holdings near €2bn
International Finance Corp’s drive to introduce development finance to the CLO market is advancing. Its second deal of $509m had more investors, more tranches and better pricing, supporting its rapid growth
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Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) and Ares Management re-priced 2017 vintage CLOs on Friday, slashing their cost of financing. -
The UK is reforming its treatment of special purpose vehicles in an attempt to make itself appear more business-friendly. However, in its attempts to open up the asset class, regulators could inadvertently tie up the market in red tape, as shown by its recent consultation over the possibility of including shares in ABS collateral.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has battered commercial real estate (CRE), leaving cash-squeezed properties scrambling for finance. The crisis, though, has rejuvenated the CRE CLO market in the US, with non-bank lenders providing properties with large amounts of leverage, leading to expectations that this year will make the sector a mainstream asset class.
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Together Money has taken a structural feature from the CLO market for its latest £267.7m RMBS, TABS 2021-1 - CRE2, adopting loan notes for the triple-A tranche, a first for the asset class. The issuer pre-placed four tranches – almost certainly with a single account, sources said.
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First Eagle Alternative Credit has hired Nishil Mehta as portfolio manager from Prospect Capital Management, where he was head of capital markets and a CLO portfolio manager.
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Sustainable securitization is moving into the mainstream, with a growing number of managers adopting ESG language in CLOs — usually through excluding specific industries from investment. What’s next in the green securitization revolution will depend on building a rigorous framework for assessing ESG factors and how to create standards. Paola Aurisicchio reports.
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Apex Credit Partners has returned to the US CLO market, pricing its first transaction of 2021, a $310m deal arranged by Jefferies.
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European ABS has experienced a historic rally in recent months as spreads have tightened in response to a wider economic recovery. But as pent-up supply begins to return to the market, syndicate desks see a widening out of spreads as new issuance increased throughout June and July.
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CLO managers seeking to issue new deals have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the return of large investors which had supported supply in the first quarter. But a substantial pipeline of new issues is being built.
