Europe

Carlyle has raised an additional $800 million for "opportunistic" debt and equity investments of third-party CLOs, in a planned expansion of its $19.4B in structured credit business assets under management.

AXA Investment Advisors' two primary-issue CLOs in 2017 were each priced within the past month.

Many raised large amounts of capital to put to work in the equity, or riskiest slices of their deals, allowing them to resume issuing new deals just as new loan issuance was taking off.

The Kurban Group, a Lebanese travel conglomerate, recently closed on a rental fleet securitization that, despite its small size, represents some notable "firsts."

A £366.2 million mortgage on 127 industrial properties is being used as collateral for a transaction called Taurus 2017-2 UK DAC.

The collateralized loan obligation manager launched a fifth 2017 U.S. deal totaling $510 million, while its European subsidiary is preparing a third transaction totaling €400 million.

The $12.9 billion in collateralized loan obligations issued last month brings the 11-month total to $108 billion, just shy of the 2014 record of $124 billion.

The German automaker continues to reduce its reliance on asset-backed financing as fallout from an emissions scandal fades.

The €173.3 million deal is backed by loans originated by the former Catalunya Banc, which were purchased at discount by the Blackstone Group in 2014.

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.