Glen Fest

The U.S. CLO manager breaks the ice with its first euro-denominated deal, which priced Friday and will close in May when it is about 75% ramped up.

The deadline to seek an en banc hearing has now passed, and skin-in-the-game rules for collateralized loan obligations could be off the books by April 2.

The deadline to appeal the rollback of risk-retention requirements for CLO managers expired at midnight last night, but Voya Alternative Asset Management is not taking advantage.

An affiliate of the private-equity firm Angel Oak is packaging bank-issued sub debt to minimize risk for bondholders. It recently completed its first securitization and has plans to issue two deals a year.

Just over 20% of the balance are hotel loans, including the second-largest loan in the collateral pool, a $59.9 million portion of a $132.9 million loan used in a cashout refinancing of the Hilton Clearwater.

The money manager is preparing to refinance a $400 million deal originally printed in March 2016 that is currently grandfathered from risk retention rules - without bringing the deal into compliance.

Octagon is refinancing a 2013-vintage CLO for the second time, while Anchorage is using the assets of a deal issued in 2012 (and later refinanced in 2016) for its first new-issue deal of 2018.

The gap between long and short reinvestment periods for U.S. collateralized loan obligations that reset rates has widened in 2018 as managers contend with different market signals, says Fitch.

Moody’s expects net losses over the life of NAVSL 2018-2 to be about 0.95%; that's up slightly from 0.9% for Navient's prevous deal, NAVSL 2018-1 due to the longer remaining terms of the collateral.

CBAM, the leading CLO issuer by volume in 2017, had a shorter non-call for its senior-note stack; Apex has split the AAA paper into three variable-priced tranches.