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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home
Much attention has been paid to the suitability of Matt Damon in the lead role as the wily Odysseus in this summer’s Christopher Nolan blockbuster.
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August 12, 2026 
Loan Stats at a Glance - 10/11/2021
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
Quarterly buyout volume reaches new heights in 3Q21
Source: Dealogic, Debtwire Par Institutional loans supporting buyout activity jumped to USD 21.1bn in September, bringing the quarterly figure to…
Private Debt Intelligence - 10/4/2021
Dry Powder for Direct Lending Senior Debt at Record High [wpdm_package id=’48963′] Almost 60% of dry powder in direct lending…
1-3Q21 leveraged issuance sets new record at US$1.3Tr
U.S. bank arrangers completed over US$250bn of leveraged loan issuance during the quarter, the strongest 3Q results since 2017 as…
PE’s growth compared to the public market
Download PitchBook’s Report here. As an asset class, private equity’s growth has exploded over the past two decades. According to PitchBook’s…
PE and Supply Chains
Even in normal times, private equity sponsors pay ruthless attention to cost structures of portfolio companies. Covid has raised to…
For 2022, we are considering rebalancing portfolio allocations more to ___.
Delivering the Goods
Increased bottlenecks from Covid-related issues have extended expected lead times.
Single-B PE-Backed First-Lien Loan Spreads and Covenant Terms
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller
The challenge of meeting ESG ambitions
Sustainability is increasingly being factored into investment decisions, but there is little uniformity in approach. Everyone can agree that taking…
Loan Stats at a Glance - 10/4/2021
Contact: Marina Lukatskymarina.lukatsky@spglobal.com
2021 Sponsored leveraged loan issuance is US$493.4bn, up 120% YoY
Near the end of the 3Q21, sponsored leveraged loan issuance for the year is US$493.4bn, broken out between US$122.9bn of…
Deal Flow and Bandwidth Issues
Before Covid the persistent view of private credit was too much capital chasing too few deals. Transaction inflation was resulting…
Supply Chain Blues (Last of a Series)
Last fall, the Harvard Business Review examined Covid’s impact on supply chains [link]. The pandemic, they wrote, “exposed vulnerabilities in…