JPMorgan levfin conference suggests market is booming as top trade ideas pitched
Conference panellists include Sir Tony Radakin and Mike Pompeo; overweight trade ideas included CPI Property, Ocado and VMED O2 VFNs, while underweight pitches were Flora Food, Volvo Cars and PolarDC

North Carolina, CalPERS disclose billions in recent debt SMA allocations
NCIA commits USD 3.3bn to private credit across three managers; CalPERS discloses USD 2.3bn in 1Q26, including Blue Owl investment

KKR adds global credit and markets MDs in Europe
The alternative asset management giant has hired BofA’s former head of EMEA corporate debt capital markets, alongside a managing director in JPMorgan’s M&A group

Banks, managers add staff for private credit syndication
Banks see private credit syndication as a way to reclaim fees as more borrowers tap both private credit and broadly syndicated loan markets, Mission Staffing managing director Eric Vaheb told Creditflux

Private credit trading has reasons to grow despite slow take off in Europe
Banks try to establish a secondary market for private credit; large unitranche deals drive private credit trading growth, while semi-liquid funds require asset trading to manage portfolios and meet redemptions

Global banks call for pension reforms to strengthen Europe’s financial sovereignty

JPMorgan hires Morgan Stanley executive to lead global secondaries practice
William Boyle previously served as Morgan Stanley’s global head of private capital advisory; new hire bolsters JP Morgan’s recently formed private capital advisory unit

JPMorgan cuts back lending to private credit funds after loan markdowns
The pullback comes after the bank marked down the value of certain loans held by private credit funds that served as collateral

Expect more corporations to default – JPMorgan head of global credit financing Jake Pollack
“The idea that default rates will go up over time is not particularly difficult to get to,” says Jake Pollack, head of global credit financing and North America credit trading at JPMorgan, on the latest Credit Exchange podcast with Lisa Lee

JPMorgan credit research team pitches top trades at levfin conference, strategists recommend overweight BBs
Buy opportunities in AT1 debt, periphery banks, Ardagh Metal, Altice France, Ithaca; Sell ideas on Guala Closures, Nissan, Nomad Foods, Hapag Lloyd
 

JPMorgan’s asset management arm seeks to raise direct lending fund
EXCLUSIVE: The asset management unit is raising capital from institutional investors for direct lending as the bank steps up lending from its balance sheet.

Clearlake set to seal private credit loan to replace risky Dun & Bradstreet financing
EXCLUSIVE: Ares leads USD 5bn unitranche loan with JPMorgan among expected lenders that will replace original 364-day financing

JPMorgan enters private credit big leagues with USD 4bn Boeing unit financing
EXCLUSIVE: The bank takes down the third-largest piece of the giant unitranche, lending shoulder-to-shoulder with direct-lending giants

Welcome to Miami, good luck getting on the deal
JPM leveraged finance conference attracts over 3000 to South Beach where participants expect LME activity to remain high and saw increased private credit presence
 

JPMorgan strikes private credit partnership with Octagon
EXCLUSIVE: JPMorgan and Octagon's private credit tie-up comes as both expand into the private credit space

JPMorgan, co-lenders commit USD 65bn to direct lending
USD 50bn from the bank’s own balance sheet to support private credit deals

JPMorgan to kick start private debt fund for wealthy individuals
Structured as an interval fund, JPMorgan Asset Management plans to use the fund to invest across direct lending, asset based finance and distressed debt investments.

JPMorgan is in negotiations to expand roster of private credit partners
JPMorgan is in active negotiations to build a roster of private credit partnerships to bolster its presence in the asset class

JP Morgan CIO PM finds his way to ABL fund
Doug Nicholson, a portfolio manager in the chief investment office at JP Morgan for over 15 years, has jumped to a buy-side private credit firm

Antares plans unit buying private credit loans from other lenders
Antares eyes buidling out a private credit secondary business to buy loans from other lenders

Evolution hires new managing director from JP Morgan
Evolution Credit Partners has added a managing director on the investment team, helping grow the Boston-headquartered firm's working capital finance and leveraged finance businesses

Veteran JP Morgan credit trader leaves for buy-side
JP Morgan's global head of macro credit trading has left to move to a London-based hedge fund 

It's time for bullish reversal on IG credit to play decompression: JP Morgan
Having been bearish most of the year JP Morgan has changed its view on investment grade credit to neutral, saying value has become too cheap to ignore

Euro credit woes vs US set to resume with cyclicals shock likely: JP Morgan
Further decoupling lies ahead between euro and dollar credit, despite the recent positioning squeeze, warn JP Morgan credit strategists

Position cutting tames market rally and strategists warn on primary impact
Caution is the watchword across financial markets on Tuesday, with the strong recent run giving way to hedging and position cutting ahead of a much-anticipated US inflation reading on Wednesday