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Bloomberg: Leveraged Lending Insights – 4/21/2025

Leveraged Loan Market Dries Up Amid Economic Uncertainty Click here to access Bloomberg’s US Leveraged Finance Chartbook The reduction in US institutional leveraged loan issuance has been drastic – with just $3.1b priced through April 22nd, it amounts to the worst month of loan issuance since July 2022’s $3.5b, which followed the Federal Reserve’s historic…

PDI Picks – 4/21/2025

Real estate debt spies comeback Despite the lack of deal volume and build-up of dry powder in the sector, there remain parts of the market where borrowing needs are not being met. Since interest rates began to rise in 2022, putting significant pressure on borrowers facing looming loan maturities and soaring debt costs, the opportunity…

Letter from Kuala Lumpur (First of Two Parts)

“Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises contribute almost 40% of Malaysia’s GDP and almost 50% of its national work force, yet only 17% of these companies have access to bank financing.” – Sources: KSP, ADM Capital. Last month our travels took us to Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, a city of about 2 million. There we met…

Private Credit in a Post-Rate World (Last of a Series)

The notion of a post-rate world is arguable, as anyone in the capital markets over the past two decades would attest. But with so many variables in today’s crosswinds, investors in private capital believe that, as a relative matter, the direction of interest rates is less significant than how tariff policies will roll out in […]

Bloomberg: Leveraged Lending Insights – 4/14/2025

Launch Drought Extends to 14 Days, Setting Bleak New Record Click here to access Bloomberg’s US Leveraged Finance Chartbook Wednesday, April 16th was the 14th business day running without a leveraged loan launch, marking the longest such primary issuance draught since Bloomberg began tracking the data in 2013…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log

Debtwire Middle-Market – 4/14/2025

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 12.1% as of 14 April) that tracks the overall performance of publicly traded business development companies (BDCs, are lenders to privately held middle-market businesses…