Solidcore eyes $1bn+ sale

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Term time — The financial woes of UK universities

When the University of Nottingham shut down its music and languages department in early October, resulting in more than 500 job losses, it blamed weak enrolment and a “challenging international student recruitment environment”.

20 Oct 2026

| Europe

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Private Credit

What matters? Data center lenders debate materiality as construction risk looms

What makes the cut as a material event? It’s a question that has bedeviled Wall Street for years. And it’s a growing concern for credit investors in the fast-growing world of data center finance as they demand greater disclosure on projects’ construction progress amid energy bottlenecks, permitting delays, community opposition and political pushback.

16 Oct 2026

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| Europe

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Aegon creates commingled fund for insured credit strategy

Aegon Asset Management has launched a commingled evergreen fund for investors to access its increasingly popular “insured credit” strategy, which turns a range of sub-investment-grade debt into high-yielding, high-grade notes.

9 Oct 2026

| Global

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Hot Stacks — The force majeure clause haunting data center debt docs

Just in time for Halloween, AI infrastructure credit investors may find themselves spooked after Oracle recently invoked a force majeure clause at a major New Mexico data center development.

8 Oct 2026

| US

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Private Credit

Sponsors advance to second round of IceLake’s Groundbirds sale

Ares Management, Castik Capital, Egeria Group, HIG Capital, Inflexion, and Rivean Capital are through to the second round of IceLake’s sale of infrastructure maintenance business Groundbirds, according to 9fin sources.

6 Oct 2026

| Europe

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Software’s second coming finds a new price

Seven months after a stormy SaaSpocalypse sent lenders scrambling to reassess their exposure, European software deals are pricing around 50bps-75bps wider than before the sell-off, according to 9fin sources.

5 Oct 2026

| Europe