UK-based bank and financial services group HSBC Holdings is putting together a team to tap its relationships with mid-sized companies across the globe to expand its brokering, arranging and financing of private debt deals, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A dramatic increase in private credit investments by life insurers is creating systemic risk for investors, according to a report by the Financial Times quoting concerns aired by private equity investor J Christopher Flowers, the founder of JC Flowers & Co.
With companies increasingly looking to tap the private credit markets for financing, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, is aiming to maintain double-digit growth in its corporate lending business, according to a report by Asia Nikkei.
Bank of Nova Scotia has partnered with Sun Life Financial Inc’s asset-management division, SLC Management, to provide affluent clients with access to private credit and other alternative investment opportunities, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Orion Credit Capital Asia, a Singapore based private credit investment manager focused on direct lending in the Asia-Pacific region, has reached the first close of its Fund III with up to $205m of capital commitments. The new fund has already started deploying capital.
Goldman Sachs Group has boosted its latest push into providing private debt facilities for blue-chip companies with the appointment of James Keller, a senior banker from HSBC Holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The Bank of America has speculated that defaults in corporate private credit will exceed those in the syndicated loan market next year if interest rates remain consistently higher, as reported by Bloomberg.
BlackRock Inc to launch a new private credit fund – The Climate Transition-Oriented Private Debt Fund – as part of an ESG-focused investing platform that the firm says is worth more than $100bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Pension fund KPN is aiming to make an investment of between 5% and 7% of its €10bn assets in infrastructure, corporate and real estate debt by 2026, with half of that total going to impact investments – if the fund can identify suitable managers – according to a report by
T Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors have launched a new private credit fund, the T Rowe Price OHA Select Private Credit fund, which has already raised $1.5bn, according to a report by CityWire.
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