Private equity

The agencies will give the industry another month to submit feedback on the so-called covered fund portion of the rule "in light of potential disruptions resulting from the coronavirus.”

A large percentage of Institutional investors lack confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to contain and eradicate the coronavirus outbreak. But few have plans to pull capital out of specific geographic regions due to the pandemic.

Over the last two weeks, at least half a dozen lenders to mid-size businesses actively fundraising in North America and Europe have canceled appointments or travel plans to meet with prospective investors due to the continuing spread of the coronavirus.

Terry Wakefield, a technology consultant who helped launch Fannie Mae's mortgage-backed securities business and form Prudential Home Mortgage, has died. He was 70.

In another rollback of the bank trading ban, the federal agencies unveiled a plan to allow financial institutions to invest in multiple companies through certain fund structures.

Regulators already finalized a rollback of the proprietary trading ban section of the rule but signaled then that their overhaul was not finished.

Apollo and Blackstone are displacing Wall Street amid a growing shift to large-scale direct lending.

The company asserted in the statement that S&P’s action was driven more by the distressed trading levels of Serta’s loans in the secondary market rather than the company’s “financially solvent” status.

PE firms have made investments in only seven banks in 2019, compared with 21 last year. Here's what's driving the slowdown.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset management arm is extending a push into the $787 billion private credit market as cash pours into the asset class from yield-hungry investors.