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Bank Lending to Private Equity and Private Credit Funds: Insights from Regulatory Data
In this note, we examine large banks’ lending to private equity (PE) and private credit (PC) funds. Using a manual matching algorithm, we estimate that large banks’ total loan commitments to PE/PC fund sponsors are approximately $300 billion, or 14 percent of their total loan commitments to non-bank financial institutions, as of 2023, up from around $10 billion, or about one percent, in 2013.
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The Secondary Market for Syndicated Loans
We document an active secondary market for shares in syndicated term loans using confidential supervisory data. While most of the literature examines trades near origination, this paper is the first to study the secondary market throughout the life cycle of a syndicated term loan. We establish novel empirical facts about the post-origination trading of loan shares and identify key participants and their trading patterns. We characterize the determinants of an active secondary market, the turnover of lender shares, and the resulting credit exposure allocations. Increased non-bank participation ...
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The Role of Primary Dealers in Mitigating Liquidity Risk at U.S. Central Counterparties
In this article, we examine the role of primary dealers as clearing members at U.S. central counterparties (CCPs) and their importance in liquidity risk management at those CCPs. We find that primary dealers are key contributors to concentration in central clearing—they make up a significant portion of clearing members and an even larger portion of activity cleared by U.S. CCPs. Second, we find that primary dealers are a major source of interconnectedness across U.S. CCPs. Further, we estimate that the bulk of clearing activity in the U.S. is conducted by the primary dealers that are also ...