
Private Lending: An Emerging Alternative for Investors
The Opportunity The increasing regulation designed to reduce the riskiness of banks after the global financial crisis has made more expensive and difficult for these institutions to lend. Banks have reacted reducing future lending activities to the private sector, creating a diminution of the capital available to fast growing mid-market businesses and consumers. Consequently, direct lending has emerged as a clear option to fulfill this financing gap, starting a disintermediat