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Who killed the bank loan?

ANALYSIS: The lines between traditional banking risk and private credit risk are blurring in ways that regulators are only just beginning to map.

Sat, 06 Jun 2026
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A decade ago, if a company needed a loan, it went to a bank. Today, more often than not, it doesn’t. After the global financial crisis in 2008, regulators made it more expensive for banks to lend to risky borrowers. Asset managers, pension funds, and private equity firms filled that gap. They

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