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Bloomberg: Leveraged Lending Insights – 5/26/2025

US Leveraged Loan Launches Pick Back Up in May To Monitor Upcoming US Institutional Loan Issuance, run PREL <GO> from a Bloomberg Terminal Following a record drought between March 28 and April 16 in which 14 business days passed without the launch of a new US leveraged loan financing, the longest such streak since Bloomberg…

Debtwire Middle-Market – 5/26/2025

Source: VanEck BDC Income ETF, BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Effective Yield The blue line in the chart is the current dividend yield of the *VanEck BDC Income ETF (currently at 11.3% as of 23 May) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses…

Covenant Trends - 5/26/2025

Average New-Issue Clearing Spreads (Single B) and Covenant Terms for All First-Lien Institutional Loans (Past performance is no guarantee of future results.) Contact: Steven Miller smiller@covenantreview.com

PDI Picks – 5/26/2025

Safety first Amid a volatile macro-economic and geopolitical backdrop, private credit funds are doubling down their investments in trusted sectors. US tariff uncertainty is leading to a flight to safety among private credit funds, particularly in terms of sector specialisms. In Private Debt Investor’s soon-to-be-published Mid-Market Report, we found evidence to support one professional’s claim…