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

Citi CEO Jane Fraser said she's "sanguine" on the risks in private credit, but concerns about AI and war in Iran could make ...

"The year 2025 was an extraordinary and deeply distorted period for many reasons, including low credit loss rates and soaring asset values," notes WGA Chairman Christopher Whalen. "But history teaches ...

Stress in the private credit space has emerged as one of many risks to the market. Mohamed El-Erian warned it could lead to a "contagion phenomenon." ...

MSCI said the new solution leverages consistent, independent probability of default (PD) scores and implied ratings for deeper risk insight across funds, sectors and geographies. It also delivers ...

About the author: Amit Seru is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a Steven and Roberta Denning professor of finance at the Stanford ...

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 ...

We get granular as the environment for risk-taking is supportive for now. That’s why we like euro area high yield credit, emerging market debt and U.S. stocks. U.S. stocks soared to record highs again ...

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 ...