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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home

Much attention has been paid to the suitability of Matt Damon in the lead role as the wily Odysseus in this summer’s Christopher Nolan blockbuster.

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    Stat of the Week: Eurozone Business Climate

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    Select Deals in the Market - 2/29/2016

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 2/29/2016

    Contact: Timothy Stubbs timothy.stubbs@spcapitaliq.com

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    Markit Recap – 2/22/2016

    Last summer saw investors turn to shorting bond ETFs as the bond market kicked back to into life amid the…

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    A Review of European Direct Lending (Second of a Series)

    Burger King isn’t just selling Whoppers any more. Last week the second largest burger giant began serving hot dogs at…

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    Hard Floors

    While their share of European leveraged loans has steadily dropped to 31%, banks are still about where they were pre-crisis.…

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    Lead Left Interview - Edwin Cass

    This week we chat with Edwin Cass, Chief Investment Strategist, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Mr. Cass is responsible for…

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    The Pulse of Private Equity - 2/22/2016

    How much longer will the M&A boom sustain PE exits? The M&A boom has been very kind to private equity…

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    Stat of the Week: Consumer Price Index

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    Select Deals in the Market - 2/22/2016

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    Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 2/22/2016

    Despite significant market volatility, PE shops are moving full speed ahead on select mega deals in 2016. While the dataset…

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    Loan Stats at a Glance - 2/22/2016

    Contact: Timothy Stubbs timothy.stubbs@spcapitaliq.com

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    Markit Recap – 2/15/2016

    The shrinking of balance sheets has become a common theme in recent years, particularly in the financial sector. Investors are…

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    Leveraged Loan Insight & Analysis - 2/15/2016

    Discounts on first-lien institutional term loans haven’t been this wide since 2011. The average original issue discount (OID) is 98.02…

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    A Review of European Direct Lending (First of a Series)

    Over the years the US has been by far the dominant supplier of leveraged loans globally. (See our Chart of…

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    Tale of Two Markets

    The volume of institutional leveraged loans in the US is over six times as large as that of Europe on…

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