First Eagle taps AlbaCore alum for alternative credit product sales
Edward Berry joins as a managing director in London and will help distribute the firm’s alternative credit products, including those under the Napier Park brand

Abry Private Debt acquires USD 330m private credit portfolio
Abry partnered with Coller Capital on the credit secondaries transaction

Hayfin names Goldman Sachs veteran as head of investments
Goldman Sachs veteran Michael Marsh has been hired to the newly created role

LBOs, new loan supply expectations reset amid Iran war, AI-related disruptions
Loans in previously overlooked sectors are gaining more attention amid the upheaval, according to panellists at this week’s Creditflux CLO Symposium

Maturity wall threatens high-risk AI private credit names – KBRA
Direct lenders are showing an unwillingness to extend maturities for companies that are vulnerable to artificial intelligence or underperforming already 

JPMorgan Asset Management mixes public, private credit in new semi-liquid fund
JPMorgan’s asset management arm offers exposure to various credit investments across the public and private markets in a new interval fund for affluent individuals

Apollo readies offensive strategy for software valuation troubles
The alternative asset manager says it’s ready to step in as a lender or even provide equity to software companies as the market anticipates  challenges from artificial intelligence

Private credit investors chase higher risk-return—Campbell Lutyens
A new survey shows investors are seeking higher returning strategies amid expectations of lower rates, while also turning away from the dominant North American market

North American and European credit defaults to fall next year – S&P Global
Global credit default rates will remain contained next year with North American defaults falling to around 4% 

CLO issuance projected to hit new records in 2026 – KBRA
The ratings agency projects USD 220bn in issuance across US BSL CLOs and private credit CLOs as well as five to six European private credit CLOs next year

Apollo Debt Solutions issues second direct lending CLO
The print follows the manager’s inaugural such deal at the end of April, arranged by RBC and Apollo

CVC raises USD 700m for CLO equity fund, plans new products
The European private credit manager also expects to hold a final close for its European Direct Lending Fund IV in late 3Q

Private credit managers find “white space” even as capital concentrates among the few – Mercer
Institutional investors commit most of their capital to established private credit firms of scale, but they’re often more willing to take a chance on newcomers in strategies outside of direct lending

Blackstone reports 18% return from private credit over last 12 months
Blackstone's private credit and liquid credit returns outperform private equity investments in the last 12 months

BlackRock keeps up issuance with new middle market CLO
In a flurry of activity, BlackRock followed its Magnetite XVII reset last Tuesday with a new middle market CLO deal the following Wednesday, just outside the tightest such deal recorded so far this year

Golub keeps up the pace with big static BSL CLO
Golub has returned to the market with another typically sizeable offering, adding the fifth-largest deal of the year to their portfolio 

Big is beautiful for latest Antares MM CLO
Last week saw Antares Capital Advisers price its first new CLO of the year, a giant middle-market deal that also priced extremely tightly

Refi of PennantPark V middle-market CLO tightens triple-A by 90bps
Pennant Park has refinanced its PennantPark V CLO, a middle-market deal from late 2022

BMO returns with first US middle market CLO since 2021
BMO Asset Management late last week priced Great Lakes CLO VII, a USD 404.87m middle market CLO

Direct lender and CLO manager expands into Japan
The US private credit and direct lending specialist has opened its first Japanese office, and hired a new senior VP to oversee the office

Wave of legal hires becomes a tsunami
In February alone legal heavyweights Allen & Overy, DLA Piper, Fried Frank, Kirkland & Ellis, Proskauer Rose and White & Case all announced the arrival of partners in the credit space

PennantPark goes short for latest MM CLO
The primary CLO market saw a rarity yesterday when PennantPark Investment Advisers priced the first short-dated middle market CLO of the year

Audax adds bumper MM CLO
Audax Private Debt added to this week’s parade of middle market deals, pricing the second-largest MM CLO of the year on Wednesday

HPS prices new private credit CLO
This week has seen increasing amounts of deal flow emerging in middle market CLOs, and HPS Investment Partners joined in on Wednesday, pricing its first deal of 2024

Private credit CLO AAAs hit 190 as Ares prices new Ivy Hill deal
Ares Capital, via Ivy Hill Asset Management, added weight to middle market CLO issuance last week with a new USD 450.8m deal