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Property lender LendInvest has secured a £250m warehouse facility from Société Générale, as it extends its institutional backing. The facility will be used to bolster LendInvest’s buy-to-let and specialist residential mortgages, using its technology-driven lending platform. The facility also offers LendInvest competitive funding terms and […]

Pollen Street expects fee-paying assets under management (AuM) for its private credit business to increase this year after a flat 2024, once newly-raised funds for its latest vehicle are deployed. The alternative asset manager – which invests in both private equity and private credit – reported that private credit fee-paying AuM remained at […]

Icona Capital has merged with Stoneweg under the newly-formed SWI Group brand, to create a new alternative investment platform with aggregate assets under management (AUM) of €10bn (£8.3bn). SWI Group has more than 350 professionals located in 25 offices across the world. The new firm will provide both scale and product diversification to […]

Law firm Macfarlanes has announced nine new partners, including a new partner in the firm’s finance division. From 1 April 2025, Pinar Celebi will become a finance partner, while Caja Griesenbach will be a partner in competition, and Greg James and Alice Temkin will be corporate and M&A partners. Celebi acts on cross-border finance […]

Investors are being urged to rethink their private asset modelling and allocation strategies due to a lack of robust benchmarks for returns and volatility, and the changing dynamics of the market. According to a new report from investment consultancy bfinance, there has been a marked pivot towards GP-led secondaries, continuation vehicles, and […]

Pollen Street Capital has joined forces with Capricorn Capital to provide £105m in funding to Level, a non-bank lender specialising in the probate, family law and private client sectors. The funds involve a combination of equity from Capricorn Capital and a senior secured facility from Pollen Street Capital. Robert Gottlieb, chief executive of […]

The proportion of large- and mid-cap private debt deals dropped last year in favour of smaller transactions, as lenders flock to the lower end of the market for more favourable pricing. Data compiled by Preqin, shared with Alternative Credit Investor, showed that the share of mid-cap deals – those between $100m (£77.3m) and $500m – The post […]

With stock markets in turmoil as the new ISA season begins, proponents of Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISAs) say they offer retail investors a glimmer of stability – a fixed return and regular, reliable income on which to structure their finances. Even before the recent stock market volatility amid global trade wars, IFISAs, which are the The […]

The increase in interest in general partner-led credit secondaries is bringing a whole new complexity to private markets, with managers introducing new tools to overcome some of the challenges. One of the primary hurdles in GP-led credit secondaries is the formulation of the purchase price. Kenneth Blazejewski, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, […]

CrowdProperty, a UK property development lender, has launched a funding solution that eliminates retained interest, while streamlining the application process. Dubbed ‘REAL’ – Residential Expertise Accelerating Lending – the new solution is designed to help developers overcome the challenge of slow and complex property development finance […]