Private Debt News

Benefit Street Partners (BSP) announced the final closing of its fifth flagship direct lending vehicle, BSP Debt Fund V, with $4.7 billion of investable capital across the strategy. Consistent with prior vintages, this fund seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing primarily in privately originated, floating rate, senior secured loans.

In this report, we discuss the evolution and current state of the European private credit market, compare broadly syndicated loan and MM CLOs, and explore other types of lending facilities to private debt portfolios. KBRA has a unique insight into the landscape and trends in private credit. A comprehensive list of KBRA publications on private […]

Der Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund gab am Dienstag bekannt, dass er bei seinem Börsengang 103,35 Millionen Dollar eingenommen hat.

“There’s a growing differentiation between asset gatherers and true credit investors.”

The accommodating US syndicated loan market saw another wave of opportunistic activity this week with some 20 speculative-grade borrowers (at last count) slashing costs of debt via a repricing, including Buckeye Partners and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Another measure of market intensity: Dividend deals—where a PE shop loads a portfolio company with additional debt, distributing the loan […]

Banks are set to score a victory against direct lenders by poaching a private debt loan and announcing its refinancing in the broadly syndicated loan market as soon as next week, with more trades set to follow the migration into the cheaper public markets.

The U.S. and European private credit markets have been a significant success-story of asset management for the last decade. Having begun life as a source of financing for mid-market companies that could not raise funds elsewhere, private credit has grown into a serious and credible competitor to both traditional bank debt and the liquid markets […]

Its direct lending investment team, known as Principal Alternative Credit, has now closed on over 115 transactions as of December 31, 2023, and has exceeded $2 billion in total borrower commitments since its inception in July 2020. This milestone represents an important step in the company’s long-term strategic plan of providing flexible financing solutions across […]

Allianz Global Investors verkündet das erste Closing des „European Private Credit III – Invest for Positive Change“ Fonds (EPC III), der im November 2022 aufgelegt wurde, mit Kapitalzusagen von 300 Millionen Euro.

An attractive yield and low capital volatility mean this fast-growing asset class is worth a closer look.

Die Signa-Pleite trifft auch eine Reihe von Schweizer Firmen, darunter Banken, Versicherungen und einen Detailhandelsriesen. Eine neue Liste zeigt, mit wie viel Geld die Signa Gruppe um Milliardär René Benko bei ihnen in der Kreide steht.