Private credit — direct lending to businesses outside the public bond markets — grew rapidly through the low-rate years of ...

The relative stability of private credit encouraged some borrowers to shift away from public markets, underscoring the asset class’s growing relevance as a complementary source of financing. More ...

These events remain relevant largely because they occurred during an extended period of geopolitical stability that ran from the late 1990s through to the early 2020s. When shocks did occur, they ...

Small and medium-sized companies have long relied on banks to fund their growth. But in recent years, regulatory capital pressures have forced companies of this size to look outside the conventional ...

A measure of credit risk jumped and bond sales in Europe were put on hold on concerns that soaring oil prices and a prolonged war in the Middle East will weaken corporate balance sheets and heighten ...

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