SoftBank launches $11bn-eqvt bond offering to power AI ambitions

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Private Credit

Hacker group claims PantherX Rare data breach

A ransom hacking group claims it has breached internal systems of the rare disease pharmacy PantherX Rare to obtain sensitive customer data, just as the company’s bankers are attempting to offload loans backing its buyout by Warburg Pincus.

18 Sept 2026

| US

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LevFin

Inflation puts US and AI on collision course with destiny

The US administration is counting on the AI financing boom bringing real growth to save it from a macroeconomic death cross between the country’s growth and debt metrics — but the sector could also prove to be the nail in its coffin.

11 Sept 2026

| Global

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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

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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

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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