Brazil corporate distress relief pushed to 2027 as rate cuts fall short

9Questions — Marco Busca, Generali — Secondary chances

At a time when exits are lagging and holding periods are longer, it’s no wonder private credit secondaries are booming.

Financing the AI boom: Capital, commitments and credit risk

The AI buildout is the largest single-sector capital allocation in credit market history. In this whitepaper, 9fin's newsroom and 9fin AI trace where the money is flowing, where the risks are stacking up, and how credit is being repriced across public and private markets.

US LevFin Pipeline — August 2026 — An open market waits for new money

Our US LevFin Pipeline is a monthly report tracking upcoming and potential debt syndications, with a focus on expected new money supply. It’s based on publicly available information and laid out as three tables:

Always and forever chemicals? — Mapping PFAS exposure amid slow transition planning

On 24 June, Chemours (B1/BB-) agreed to a $450m settlement over releases of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as 'forever chemicals', in West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey. The settlement is the latest in a series of cases involving major PFAS producers, including 3M (A3/BBB+), DuPont (Baa1/BBB+) and Arkema (Baa1/BBB+), all of which continue to face extensive litigation related to historical PFAS contamination.

Fitch drafts industry’s first midstream oil & gas ABS rating methodology

Two months after it rated the first public midstream oil and gas ABS, Fitch has released the first methodology dedicated to the budding sector.

LatAm Weekly — CSN bites the bullet, and Braskem creditors might soon have to