Blackstone's anchor role in a $63bn financing for Broadcom's AI chips leads a Tuesday slate dominated by AI-funded credit, from a $103bn tally of compute deals to the debt-market unease behind them, alongside KKR's employee-ownership idea f…
Widening credit spreads and AI-debt worries lead a lighter Monday slate, with Blackstone's softer quarter and its chip-linked lending, direct lenders pushing back on the stress narrative, a record Treasury proposal on institutional homebuyi…
EQT's Qiagen take-private leads a slate where Blackstone's softer quarter and its AI-linked lending sit beside widening credit spreads and AI-debt worries, infrastructure and energy managers keep raising capital, secondaries and continuatio…
Pantheon's $6bn secondaries close leads a slate where sponsors chase sports, Gulf and wealth-manager targets, private credit shows early rate strain from Australia to retail BDC payouts, and infrastructure and energy raise record capital wh…
Carlyle's $7.7bn purchase of Truist's consumer loans leads a slate where banks hand credit to private capital while ratings agencies and the IMF warn on stress, sponsors line up large take-privates from Varonis to CCC, and continuation fund…
Take-privates dominate a Monday slate: EQT's board-backed $6.5bn bid for Cleanaway leads, alongside Proofpoint's $6.3bn Varonis deal and a $6.1bn GTCR and Elliott offer for CCC. In credit, Carlyle's $7.7bn Truist loan purchase sits against …
Record direct-lending fundraising set against a 28% drop in third-quarter loan volume leads a slate about capital with nowhere to go: managers are sitting on cash while exits stay scarce, with PitchBook's weak third-quarter buyout tally bes…
Permira's reported $3.5bn sale of Octus to LSEG leads a slate built around exits and stress: PitchBook's third-quarter tally shows how scarce realisations remain, set beside Blackstone's $1.5bn ZO Skin Health sale, Rhone's $900m Paragon dea…
The IMF's stability report giving private credit its own chapter, and warning that leverage and opacity could turn its risks systemic, leads a slate that sets Australia's widening clampdown on retail credit funds, now reaching an Ares vehic…
PitchBook's third-quarter tally showing buyout deal and exit values sliding again leads a slate that pairs INWIT and CCC take-private talks with M&G's pension-focused credit fund, KKR's fully met redemptions and Australia's widening freeze …
Blackstone's roughly $1bn private-credit continuation vehicle leads a slate dominated by valuation questions, with Deloitte's survey on repricing, KKR's fully met redemptions and AI-driven software markdowns, while the SEC's retail-access p…
Ares and Apollo reportedly eyeing struggling BDCs leads a slate in which Apollo pitches tradable private credit, Carlyle cautions lenders on AI concentration and doubts over valuations persist. KKR's $5.1bn Gen II purchase and Sycamore's $8…
KKR's $5.1bn purchase of fund administrator Gen II leads a slate in which Sycamore's $8.9bn Boots sale shows big exits can still clear, Apollo pitches tradable private credit and Carlyle cautions lenders on AI concentration. Real assets bri…
Goldman Sachs Asset Management's message that private-credit stress has not dented demand for alternatives leads a slate where Blue Owl redemption pressure looks to be easing but refinancing risk lingers, insurers keep funding asset-backed …
A state-regulator probe into a sponsor-owned insurer's affiliated private credit leads a slate where redemption pressure at Blue Owl looks to be easing even as refinancing risk lingers, CalPERS leans further into credit and new GP-stakes an…
Blue Owl's renewed 5% gates on two credit BDCs still dominate, set against a Reuters read that redemption demand at its flagship is cooling, while Oaktree, Ares and Apollo show credit capital still raising freely. In private equity, Blackst…
Apollo moves to daily pricing across its credit book as SEC staff press on private-asset valuation and the Commission proposes wider retail access, while Australia's Metrics gating and a Bank of England warning keep private-credit stress in…
The SEC proposes to widen retail access to private funds even as its staff press advisers on valuing illiquid assets, while private credit shows fresh strain at Australia's Metrics and a bid by lenders for control of stressed borrowers. Dea…
The SEC puts private-credit valuations on the exam agenda, just as retail withdrawal queues ease but remain above the gates and Paramount tests credit appetite with a jumbo acquisition financing. Deals keep moving, with Warburg Pincus raisi…
Sponsors finally get paid on the way out: Apax moves to buy Warburg Pincus's stake in Dutch telecom Odido, Rexel and Eaton take Audax's and Oaktree's industrial assets off their hands, and Greenbriar circles Spectrum Control. Private credit…
Blackstone's generational handover leads: global PE head Joe Baratta is leaving after 28 years atop a roughly $450bn platform, with no single successor named, days after the firm's real estate and growth chiefs also left. Around it, the wee…
The private-credit run is the story, and for the first time it is pointing down: redemption requests eased again at Ares, to 13.1%, a week after Apollo’s third straight quarter of gating slipped to 14.7%, and the trade press is now willing …
The risk-free rate is the story: the ten-year broke 5.1% on Wednesday, its highest since 2007, which reprices every hurdle on this page at once. Beneath it the same two currents keep running — balance sheets buying what funds cannot sell, f…