A $1.8bn strategic sale hands Bain Capital a sizeable realisation in aircraft maintenance. It adds to a run of late-September exits at scale and suggests trade buyers are back at the table.

Carlyle's research arm argues the AI data-centre buildout could draw as much as $1tn of private credit and urges lenders not to repeat software's concentration mistakes. It is a rare note of restraint from a manager that stands to write much of that debt.

A roughly $2.9bn enterprise value for a US district-energy platform is a marquee transition exit. It signals that specialist buyers still pay up for decarbonisation assets with contracted cash flows.

A second single-asset continuation vehicle in one year from one sponsor suggests the structure is now a standard exit route. Managers are choosing to hold winners rather than sell into a soft market.

Closing above its $1.1bn target in a hard fundraising year shows capital is still available for mid-market North American buyouts when the track record is there.

The Commission voted to propose changes that would widen retail access to private funds, including performance fees for registered funds, modernised interval funds and an exam-based route to accredited status. It is a proposal with a 60-day comment window, not a final rule, and it frames the week's valuation debate.

A same-week legal breakdown of the SEC staff statement on private-credit valuation and what it means for advisers' pricing processes, the compliance follow-through on the week's central regulatory action.

The Singapore investor's build-out in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi tracks where sovereign and institutional capital is pooling, and where Western managers increasingly go to raise it.