Indonesian sovereign wealth fund and Ares collaborate to provide financing in nation
Ares plans to use its Asia Credit Funds to invest up to USD 500m annually in hybrid capital and securitization deals

BC Partners Credit strikes USD 500m partnership with KingsRock
The agreement will see BC Partners Credit invest alongside credit and special opportunities deals structured by boutique investment bank KingsRock

Goldman's private credit venture with Saudia Arabia's PIF shows Middle East growth
ANALYSIS: The last few years has seen private credit managers court large Middle Eastern LPs or seek to start investing in the region

Ares alum launches opportunistic credit firm backed by Millennium
The new firm will focus on opportunistic credit across public and private markets.

Private credit managers need valuation process around market events - UK regulator
The FCA released a private markets review recommending firms identify and manage potential issues around valuations, especially those conducted as a result of asset-level or market events.

Blackstone partners with ITE to push into IG private credit
Blackstone Credit & Insurance has been focused on building its private origination pipeline for IG private credit

400 Capital raises USD 1.39bn for oversubscribed asset-based credit strategy
The asset-based credit specialist held a final close for Asset Based Term Fund IV, which surpassed its USD 1bn target

Northleaf raises over USD 1bn for flexible lending strategy
The USD 1bn includes the final close of its fund, Northleaf Private Credit III

Morgan Stanley launches European direct lending fund open to Europe's wealthy
The investment management arm of Morgan Stanley hopes to leverage its US wealth experience to distribute the new product to European clients  

State Street, Apollo to rename private credit ETF, responding to SEC concerns
The US regulatory agency said the previous name, SPDR SSGA Apollo IG Public & Private Credit ETF, may be misleading to investors

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
 

State Street, Apollo’s private credit ETF launched before addressing all regulatory concerns - SEC
The SEC published an open letter implying that the industry’s first private credit ETF launched this week without getting proper approval.

State Street and Apollo win the private credit ETF race
The industry’s first private credit ETF will invest in investment grade private credit and investment grade public fixed income

Blackstone plays ‘banker with a balance sheet’ to find lending deals
Blackstone’s BDC retreated to deploying in the upper middle market as the broadly syndicated market reclaimed large cap deals  

European direct lending "incredibly attractive", could easily see EUR 3bn unitranche in region: Ares
Co-head of European credit at Ares Management, Mike Dennis, spoke with Lisa Lee about the firm’s record fundraise for direct lending, and opportunities to invest in Europe  

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

Octagon launches debut direct lending fund seeded by Generali Investments
EXCLUSIVE: Generali Investments has agreed to provide seed capital for Fund I, which will pursue sponsor-backed direct lending deals in the middle and upper middle market    

CVC blows past fundraising target on its European direct lending fund
The alternative investment manager has already increased the fundraising target once for the 2023 vintage fund  

Large cap deals generating higher percentage of private credit defaults, S&P says
Larger private debt deals were also more likely to include a payment-in-kind feature

Alaska ups private credit co-investing to combat fund fees
The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation faces fee drag of around 15% for the asset class

Maine, Louisiana, San Jose, Kern County pensions make new private credit investments, plot future moves
Public Pensions, Private Pursuits: Maine PERS to further increase exposure to TPG Angelo Gordon’s direct lending arm

Aurelius Finance hires originator for North of England, UK
The newly created role will originate, structure and execute complex secured-debt deals in the United Kingdom

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.

Neuberger Berman raises USD 1.6bn for asset-based finance
The majority of investors from the predecessor fund committed capital to the latest Fund III