PitchBook Expands CLO Data, Delivering More Transparency to the Credit Markets

Expanded data will give credit professionals a comprehensive view of the entire credit investment lifecycle

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PitchBook, the premier data provider for the private and public equity and credit markets, today announced the expansion of its Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO) data, including the full history of more than 7,000 active and inactive CLO funds across the US and Europe. This enhanced dataset delivers the market’s most comprehensive view into CLO Fund Holdings, Trade History, and Lender Participation, capturing activity from issuance through trading. By linking CLO fund activity to detailed insights on underlying debt, borrowers, and issuers, PitchBook continues to deliver unparalleled analytical depth and market context. This expansion empowers CLO fund managers and leveraged finance professionals to better analyze performance, strategy, and structure over time, enabling more informed decisions around portfolio allocations, industry exposure, risk appetite, and benchmarking.

CLOs currently account for 60 to 70 percent of the demand for newly issued leveraged loans in the United States, underscoring their growing importance in the leveraged finance markets. As CLOs continue to play a key role in maintaining liquidity and distributing risk, their influence on market behavior has become increasingly significant. With this data expansion, PitchBook strengthens its commitment to delivering timely and accurate insights to all users. Building on its robust foundation of credit data, including more than 65,000 private credit deals and over 20,000 newly added transactions in the past six months, PitchBook offers the most extensive private credit deal database in the market. By enhancing the depth and clarity of its platform, PitchBook empowers users to better understand and navigate the evolving market landscape.

“The CLO market continues to experience rapid growth, with 2025 issuance projected to surpass $200 billion,” said Stephen Burger, Director of Product Management for Credit at PitchBook. “As this market expands in scale and complexity, our clients increasingly require a comprehensive, connected view of the entire ecosystem. This latest expansion of our data is designed to meet that need, delivering unmatched historical data that supports informed decision-making at every stage of the credit investment lifecycle from issuance to trading and portfolio management.”

With this complete view of the CLO market, PitchBook will continue to give industry professionals access to the data to analyze fund structures, holdings and trading activity across over 7,000 active and inactive CLOs.

Key areas of this data set will include:

• CLO Holdings: Analyze holdings with greater precision by grouping them by industry, asset type, and investment type, enabling more targeted portfolio insights.
• CLO Trade Data: Track buying and selling activity over time with advanced filtering options, including trade reason, date, instrument type, trade type, and asset type. This helps users identify trends and shifts in market behavior.
• Lender Positioning Over Time: Gain historical visibility into lender activity, including how long each lender held a position, their relative market share, and changes in principal balances.
• Comprehensive CLO Fund History: Access a robust database of over 7,000 CLO funds—active and inactive—including newly issued, refinanced, and reset vehicles, offering a complete view of fund evolution and market dynamics.

About PitchBook

PitchBook is a financial data and software company that provides transparency into the capital markets to help professionals discover and execute opportunities with confidence and efficiency. PitchBook collects and analyzes detailed data across both private and public markets—including VC, PE, leveraged loans, private credit, real estate, real assets, infrastructure, funds of funds, secondaries, co-investments, CLOs, and more. The company’s data and analysis are available through the PitchBook Platform, industry news, and in-depth reports. Founded in 2007, PitchBook operates globally with more than 3,000 team members. Its platform, data, and research serve over 100,000 professionals around the world. In 2016, Morningstar acquired PitchBook, which now operates as an independent subsidiary.