The European Central Bank has expanded its examination of banks’ links to the private credit sector, widening the scope of its supervisory review amid growing concerns about transparency and risk aggregation across the industry, according to a report by Bloomberg.
US companies rushed to tap debt markets on Monday, raising more than $40bn as improving geopolitical sentiment and supportive financial conditions encouraged a wave of issuance across investment-grade and leveraged credit, according to a report by Bloomberg.
BlackRock has limited investor withdrawals from its $13bn HPS Corporate Lending Fund for a second consecutive quarter, after redemption requests continued to exceed the amount the fund is able to return under its liquidity framework, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Muzinich & Co has secured more than €1.3bn ($1.5bn) in commitments for its third pan-European private debt fund, as the manager sees growing participation from both European and Asian institutional investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) has challenged the conclusions of a recent Columbia Business School paper that raised concerns about the growing use of private ratings in US life insurers’ portfolios, arguing that the study overstates both the scale of the issue and its implications for regulatory capital adequacy.
Ares Management Corporation has said that recent redemption requests from one of its private credit funds were largely driven by investors outside the United States and were concentrated among smaller institutions and family offices, rather than broad-based institutional selling, according to a report by Reuters.
Ares Management Corporation has raised a combined $12.7bn across its Pathfinder closed-end strategy and related vehicles, underscoring strong institutional demand for asset-based finance (ABF), and reinforcing the firm’s position as one of the largest managers in the rapidly expanding segment.
A new academic study from Columbia Business School has raised concerns that a growing portion of the $1.8tn private credit market may be supported by credit ratings that materially understate underlying risk, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Global asset managers, including BlackRock and Apollo Global Management struck a confident tone on private credit at Bloomberg’s Invest Hong Kong conference, pushing back against recent concerns over defaults and liquidity pressures in the sector, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apollo Global Management portfolio company Shutterfly has revised terms on a key debt refinancing package as investor concerns over artificial intelligence disruption and weak financial performance continue to pressure parts of the credit market, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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