CDOs/CLOs

Pillsbury has hired Anthony Schouten and Jeffrey Stern for its finance group as partners in New York.

Barclays is looking to buy up notes in ACA CLO 2005-1, a CLO managed by Apidos Capital Management, in an apparent effort to exercise the deal’s call option.

Monolines that have brought MBS lawsuits to court have used the same facts that class actions and put-back claims have made, but have used a different theory of law as a legal basis for their arguments.

Bond insurer Assured Guaranty has reached a three-part deal with Radian Asset that expands Assured Guaranty’s portfolio and business.

Bank of America has raised a $388 million CLO for Symphony Asset Management.

Robust attendance is expected at the American Securitization Forum's (ASF) ASF 2012 to be held in Las Vegas' ARIA hotel and convention center starting this Sunday, Jan 22. The conference will last until Wednesday, Jan 25.

Goldman Sachs has offered initial price guidance on certain slices of a $400 million CLO it is arranging for Ares Management, according to reports.

Structured finance software solutions provider Principia Partners has said that Serone Capital Management has chosen its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platform for consolidated portfolio management, risk surveillance and operational control across its European credit investment business.

Standard & Poor's expects CLO portfolio credit to be stable this year, said the agency's analysts in an emailed report released this morning.