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Business of Private Credit: Safety, Not Size
Even the best credit managers have loans that go bad. What separates them from everyone else is how they bring history and experience to working those problems out.
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August 5, 2026 
The Lead Left rebrands as The Lead, expanding into a multi-format platform for private capital intelligence
New York, July 16, 2026 – The Lead Left, the private capital thought leadership platform founded by Randy Schwimmer in 2008, today announced its rebrand as The Lead…
US Leveraged Loans return 1.88% to investors YTD
The Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index (Ticker: LOAN) has returned 0.57% to investors this month through July 15, bringing the…
Middle market loan issuance weakened in 2Q26 as sponsored activity slowed
US middle market loan issuance weakened in 2Q26 as sponsor-backed acquisition activity slowed amid muted LBO volumes and a smaller…
From Lead Left to The Lead: Randy Schwimmer on private credit's Platinum Era
A special edition – Bloomberg Radio’s Paul Sweeney turns the tables on Randy Schwimmer to celebrate the relaunch of The Lead Left as The Lead.
Direct lending holds firm as sponsor-backed LBOs dominate 1Q26
Despite negative headlines around private credit at the start of 2026, including panic redemption requests from retail investors, direct lending…
Elevated redemptions at Non-Traded BDCs persist
Average redemption requests continued to rise for perpetually non-traded business development companies (BDCs) in 2Q26, but levels and trends varied across the sector.
Senior debt and North America lead the way
We dig deeper into Private Debt Investor fundraising data from the first half of this year.
Well Prompted
The best managers know which prompts to write, and which answers to act on. Source: FTI Consulting
Business of Private Credit: Rain or Shine
Experienced private credit managers build all-weather playbooks designed to make it through any business cycle or headline risk.
Credit Journal-Private Credit
Fitch Ratings’ latest Credit Journal series is a subject-specific, curated compilation of in-depth research and commentary. This edition explores the…
Share of PE middle-market exit value by sector
Sector composition tilted hard toward B2B in Q1. B2B accounted for 52.9% of middle-market exit value, up from 38.2% in full-year 2025…
IG lending drives $255.3B of US M&A loan issuance during 1H26
US syndicated loan issuance backing M&A purposes reached US$255.3bn during 1H26, driven primarily by IG volume US syndicated loan issuance…
Business of Private Credit: Claude Says
Even chatbots know AI won’t have a one-size-fits-all impact on the middle market. Yet for the last year or so, the market has treated AI disruption as a storm cloud hanging over every private credit portfolio.