Taking the Credit — Seeing what you want to see

Asia weekly — New World’s HK$20bn equity boost

Taking the Credit — Investors struggle to put their war chests to work in European defence

Europe’s institutional investors want to open their war chests to fund European defence and sovereignty, but investment in the sector is lagging, according to 9fin sources.

Taking the Credit — If you can’t beat EM, join EM

LPs are rethinking their private credit portfolios as geopolitical headwinds and wobbles in US private credit raise new questions about concentration risk in more mature, or ‘developed’ markets. As a result, investors are giving emerging markets a closer look.

Taking the Credit — Private credit flirts with preferred equity as exits stutter

Once reserved for distress, preferred equity has become an “acceptable liquidity solution” for a market struggling with exits, Paul Hastings’ global finance partner Jennifer Passagne told 9fin. And it seems that dealmakers agree. They’ve seen the number of deals featuring pref equity at least double over the past 12 months, according to 9fin sources.

The Unicrunch — Slow markets, more secondaries

The booming credit secondaries market, which has held the spotlight throughout 2026 due to growing liquidity needs across private credit and BDCs, looks set to keep growing.

Taking the Credit — Private credit’s big spring clean

There's plenty of headlines about how non-traded BDCs have been dealing with redemptions, but what might be overlooked is how continuation funds are providing investors in traditional closed-end funds with an orderly exit.