CDOs/CLOs

The deal, BXMT 2017-FL1 weighs in at $1 billion, making it more than twice as large as most CRE-CLOs issued this year; its size isn't the only unusual feature, however.

Junk-rated firms pay little tax, and so won't benefit much from a lower corporate rate. And this benefit could be offset by a limit on the interest deduction.

The dramatic tightening in loan spreads this year made it difficult for the CLO manager to manage to various performance metrics of its deals, and this required building flexibility into deals being refinanced.

Carlyle Euro CLO 2017-3 is the latest under its new shelf managed by affiliate CELF Advisors, with a AAA coupon of just 75 basis points over three-month Euribor.

The deal will relaunch with a weighted average spread (4.22%) and excess spread (2.86%) well above the three-month industry average for issued U.S. CLOs.

CBAM Asset Management's $1B CBAM 2017-4 is not its largest deal among the four BSL portfolios it has issued in less than eight months; but the latest transaction is still almost double the average peer CLO deal size of $511 million since the third quarter.

The securitization market is weathering risk retention and rising interest rates, though Fitch Ratings is keeping its eye on some consumer asset classes as the credit cycle lengthens.

Benefit Street Partners is securitizing 20 short-term commercial real estate loans it originated or acquired for transitional properties currently with unstable cash flow.

The aerospace components manufacturer, one of the largest-held obligors in U.S. CLOs, is consolidating loans and tightening coupon spreads from 300 to 275 basis points over Libor.

Deal volume of $95 billion through 10 months is at a pace that would make 2017 the second-busiest year for post-crisis CLO issuance; AAA spreads, meanwhile, have reached three-year tights.