As middle market software and SaaS financing pivots from growth-at-all-costs to profitability-driven models, lenders, sponsors, and advisors are rewriting the...

AI-powered VDRs, automated QoE and real-time analytics are compressing diligence from weeks to days and cutting surprises, giving tech-enabled buyers...

The U.S. middle market is awash in private credit, fueling dealmaking at a breakneck pace as 2025 unfolds. With economic...

The $35,000 KPI: Why CAC Is the Hidden Lever of Growth for Middle Market Dealmakers Introduction: CAC as the Unseen...

Two groups that once viewed each other with often adversarial mindsets—PE operating partners and lender monitoring teams—are increasingly finding common...

In the wake of a historic period of bank retrenchment, a financing revolution is taking place that's reshaping how smaller...

Non-bank lenders---independent finance companies and private credit funds---are surging past traditional banks, wielding flexible financing tools to reshape capital structures...

By Lisa RafterAs specialty finance fuels middle market dealmaking in 2025, a wave of pending regulations looms on the horizon,...

By Lisa Rafter The once-distinct lines between asset-based lending and cash flow lending are continuing to fade, giving rise to...

As economic turbulence intensifies in Q1/2025, asset-based lending (ABL) faces growing scrutiny over asset quality across sponsored and non-sponsored deals....