It’s the leveraged loan market’s liquidity paradox. Selling pressure for leveraged buyout loans has been high all year, amid fears that artificial intelligence will damage or even bankrupt the ...

Private credit funds, already on the defensive amid an unprecedented investor exodus and a number of defaulting borrowers, are now bracing for a battle with their go-to lenders: major banks.

JPMorgan Chase has clamped down on its lending to private credit groups, with bankers looking to cut risk as concerns mount over the credit quality of companies in their stables.

The key thing to note here in the chart is the spread in the bottom half of the chart. For most of the last year, the gap between a barrel of oil and a barrel of jet fuel has swung between $16 and $36 ...

Rising leveraged-loan defaults are hitting CLO equity retail funds—dividends cut, prices slump, leverage bites.

On December 5, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (collectively, the Agencies) announced their withdrawal from the 2013 ...

George K. Goudelias is chief investment officer of the leveraged finance platform at Seix Investment Advisors, an affiliated manager of Virtus Investment Partners. He is the senior portfolio manager ...

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is under scrutiny after its chief equity strategist highlighted systemic risk tied to leveraged loans and bank-loan ETFs. The bank publicly opposed a proposed US Crypto Bill ...

Nov. 12, 2025 – “Know thy enemy” is often attributed to Sun Tzu, who famously advised “[i]f you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Centuries later, ...

Rising leveraged-loan defaults are hitting CLO equity retail funds—dividends cut, prices slump, leverage bites.