New Business
Thursday, 7/2, 03:38 PM
What Private Credit Is, and Why It Makes Regulators Nervous
- It is one of the fastest-growing corners of finance, and one of the least visible: a roughly $2 trillion market in which investment funds — not banks — lend directly to companies.
- Private credit has minted profits and filled a real gap.
- Now regulators are asking what happens to it in a downturn no one in the business has ever lived through.