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CLO

Distressed

LevFin

Private Credit

CLOs sit on Merlin SUN positions ahead of private credit refi

CLOs hold material positions in Blackstone-backed theme park operator Merlin Entertainments’ euro-tranche portion of the £627m of senior unsecured notes maturing November 2027, according to 9fin sources.

8 Sept 2026

| Europe

| US

News & Analysis

LevFin

Liquidity squeeze shrinks Taiwanese lenders’ appetite

Taiwanese banks are rethinking their lending strategies as liquidity is drained by a booming local stock market and the ever-growing spending needs of the island’s tech firms.

8 Sept 2026

| APAC

News & Analysis

ABF

Distressed

LevFin

Private Credit

Insolvent Bathla’s A$3.4bn debt highlights Aussie property woes

On Friday (4 September), the administrators of Bathla Group, one of Sydney’s largest, and now insolvent, homebuilders told the firm’s creditors its A$3.4bn ($2.45bn) debt stack may still grow. The builder owes most of that cash to private credit lenders, though claimants may number as many as 3,000.

4 Sept 2026

| APAC

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LevFin

Private Credit

SaaSportunity knocks, but software LBOs now face a higher financing bar

The software sector’s dramatic repricing has become one of the defining market stories of 2026. Some have called it the SaaSpocalypse. Now, an equally ham-fisted counterterm is taking hold: the SaaSportunity.

3 Sept 2026

| US

News & Analysis

LevFin

RBI swap scheme pulls $136bn, beating expectations

Indian banks mobilized $136.4bn in foreign currency inflows under the Reserve Bank of India’s concessional USD INR swap facilities between the scheme’s launch on 8 June and 31 August, surpassing both the central bank’s publicly stated expectation and market forecasts.

2 Sept 2026

| APAC

News & Analysis

LevFin

InPost’s €4bn loan and bond parcel ready for delivery

Banks including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are pre-marketing up a jumbo debt deal backing InPost’s take-private this week, according to 9fin sources. The debt package funding the buyout includes a €2.313bn euro term loan B, sources said, alongside a €1.037bn-equivalent PLN term loan B and up to €850m of senior secured notes.

2 Sept 2026

| Europe

| CEEMEA