CDOs/CLOs

Four new CLOs have been priced in the last week inside of 120 basis points over Libor, a rarely breached floor for most of 2017.

A wave of corporate loan refinancings is putting collateralized loan obligations afoul of a covenant designed to safeguard their own investors.

HPS Investment Partners is adding a new name to one of its legacy Highbridge CLOs, as well as piling on extensive changes to note structure, deal terms and restrictions on some higher-risk assets.

Just $7.6 billion of deals were refinanced or reset in September, bringing the total for the third quarter to $27.2 billion, far short of the pace of the first half, when approximately $138 billion was reworked.

A report released Friday calls risk retention "an imprecise mechanism" for encouraging the alignment of interest between sponsors and investors. It recommends creating loan-specific requirements under which managers would receive relief.

The $456.9 million LCCM 2017-FLI is secured by 19 commercial mortgages, the largest of them an amended and restated loan on Two Gateway, an office building in downtown Newark, New Jersey.

Penta CLO 3 is the first CLO since 2015 for the UK subsidiary of Swiss global asset management Partners Group Holdings AG.

Unlike the sponsor's previous transaction, which recycled collateral issued pre-crisis, this one includes newly issued securities intended to help small banks and insurance companies raise capital.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) and Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.), is modeled on an exemption that allows sponsors of residential mortgage bonds to avoid holding risk in their deals.

The total includes over $78 billion in new transactions; collateralized loan obligations issued post-crisis have lmited exposure to Toys R Us, which filed for bankruptcy last week.