Leverage Limits: Stress-Testing Middle Market Debt Capacity in a Volatile 2025 Economy
The U.S. middle market is awash in private credit, fueling dealmaking at a breakneck pace as 2025 unfolds. With economic...
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....
In a surprising throwback to 2021, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dusted off the word “transitory” during Wednesday’s post-meeting press...
March 18, 2025 – The ABF Journal has launched Digital Pulse 2025, a new digital-only publication designed to connect the...
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