This key market segment is being re-examined, with a fault-line separating companies according to AI exposure.

The best assets draw fierce competition from lenders, while a backlog of companies struggle to find buyers.

Attendees at SuperReturn conference in Berlin are told institutional support for the asset class ‘remains rock solid.’

The US Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include estimated volume and counts, spread distribution, syndicated and direct lending takeouts, and middle market CLO issuance.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.

This analyst note applies desmoothing techniques to evergreen fund indexes to help allocators better interpret volatility and risk in evergreen funds across private capital strategies.

Total commitments across the programme reached €5.5B, including €1B from private wealth capital.

But their shrinking share of deals doesn’t mean direct lenders are pulling back from private equity, yet.

The country’s 10th-largest commercial bank wants to expand the scope of its lending business, which targets midsize PE-backed companies.

Publicly traded BDCs have been increasingly returning capital to investors through share buybacks instead of investing it in loans.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.

The US Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include estimated volume and counts, spread distribution, syndicated and direct lending takeouts, and middle market CLO issuance.

The transaction is one of the largest European direct-lending deals this year, sources say.

The leveraged loan, direct lending and high-yield bond markets are at risk of wider credit spreads.

The European Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include counts and estimated volume, spread distribution and leverage.

The US Private Credit Monitor provides a high-level view of private credit market activity. Topics covered include estimated volume and counts, spread distribution, syndicated and direct lending takeouts, and middle market CLO issuance.

This is the latest vehicle in the asset class to see heightened investor demands for liquidity.

Europe’s market has been more sheltered from the AI-driven shock than its US counterpart.