Private Debt News

As direct lending becomes a more popular financing option for middle-market and large U.S. companies, banks are increasingly seeking new ways to leverage their existing customer networks to participate in the direct lending market. However, because traditional banks have been largely circumscribed by regulators in their ability to participate directly in the leveraged loan market, […]

Park Place Technologies has secured a roughly $2bn financing package from a group of private lenders led by Blackstone, which will be used to refinance its existing debt and provide a payout to the company’s private equity owners GTCR and Charlesbank Capital Partners, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The Riverside Company, a US private equity firm focused on making control and non-control investments in growing businesses valued at up to $400m, is considering strategy options for direct lending arm Riverside Credit Solutions, including a sale of the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Invesco speaks on the opportunities hen it comes to lending in the current market.
Lending is a big part of the financial sector and becoming ever more popular. Private credit is especially looking fruitful for the wealthy. But what is the advantage?

Private debt investors are playing a growing role in addressing the housing crisis in Australia, as they provide an additional source of much-needed capital to housing developers, a new white paper argues.

Rapid growth of this opaque and highly interconnected segment of the financial system could heighten financial vulnerabilities given its limited oversight. The private credit market, in which specialized non-bank financial institutions such as investment funds lend to corporate borrowers, topped $2.1 trillion globally last year in assets and committed capital. About three-quarters of this was […]

Sheraton Dallas Hotel Could Replace Existing Debt With Two Loans, S&P Report Says. A massive convention center hotel in downtown Dallas, the largest in Texas, could secure a total of $300 million in two loans if the details behind a presale report come to fruition by month’s end.

Seoul-based PE Centroid is in talks with potential bidders in Korea to refinance the mezzanine loan.

Increasing competition for deals, and the challenges posed by high interest rates, could endanger returns for some in the sector.

Steigende Zinssätze haben diese wachsende Anlageklasse sehr attraktiv gemacht. In der Finanzbranche kursiert der Slogan: «Wir befinden uns im goldenen Zeitalter für Private Credit.» Steigende Zinssätze haben diese wachsende Anlageklasse sehr attraktiv gemacht. Corporate Direct Lending, die grösste Subkategorie von Private Credit, umfasst die direkte Vergabe von Krediten an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen.

Mehr Anleihen, mehr Private Credit, mehr Durationsrisiken: Goldman Sachs Asset Management hat Investment- und Finanzchefs von Versicherungen befragt, wie sie die von ihnen beaufsichtigten und gesteuerten Portfolios umstellen. Demnach machen sich auch Zweifel unter den Kapitalanlagestrategen breit.

Institutional investors now make up the second largest category of lenders to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), behind banks. Furthermore, the majority of these investors are ‘very likely’ to increase their allocation in their portfolios. These are the main findings from a survey conducted by securitisation software provider TradeTeq.