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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home
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High-yield bonds find favor after market chaos – Debt Dynamics NorthAm
New money high-yield (HY) bond issuance showed signs of a revival in May, following a sluggish period of lower volumes…
Percentage of First Lien Loans with Affected Lender Voting Protection
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
Alternative asset manager deal activity ($B)
Download PitchBook’s Report here. Deals involving GPs as an acquiree or investment target saw record activity in 2024, with 141 deals…
Bank loans, high-yield bonds provide boost to levfin origination in May
US leveraged finance issuance reached nearly US$127bn in May, up more than 60% from April’s US$78bn pipeline.
Families turn to private credit
The asset class is moving beyond its traditional institutional investor base. Where insurance firms, pension schemes and other institutional investors…
Midcaps Motor On
Through Covid and rate hikes, middle market loan issuance has tracked up. Source: LevFin Insights, a Fitch Solutions company
Letter from Tokyo (First of a Series)
We began our visit to Tokyo this week attending S&P’s Structured Finance Seminar 2025. Along with almost 200 Japanese bankers…
US Leveraged Loan Issuance Picks Up in May, Accelerates in June
Click here to access Bloomberg’s US Leveraged Finance Chartbook May’s 41 deals for $31.6b was up $21.4b, or 210% from…
Loan funds post 4 consecutive weeks of inflows
Following the bout of market volatility and accompanying large outflows posted in April, both loan funds and high yield bond…
Average Free-and-Clear as a Multiple of Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA
(Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
Share of buyout inventory by industry (top 15)
Download PitchBook’s Report here. A clear concentration of buyout inventory resides in four sectors: software, commercial products and services, and healthcare…
European unitranche market shows resilience
The deal total for the first quarter was well ahead of last year’s equivalent, with the Benelux region particularly active.…
Mission Unstoppable
Private credit AUM expected to continue steady growth, driven by direct lending. Source: Fitch Ratings, Preqin

Private Credit – The Final Reckoning (Second of a Series)
Those who talk about risks in private credit should also keep in mind that investors always look at relative risk.…