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next six months and the negative perception of the asset class ranked as the top challenge for a second consecutive quarter.
- The share expecting a unitranche loan ($50M EBITDA, non-cyclical) to price below S+500 dropped to 21% from 67% at year-end 2025, with a plurality now expecting S+500-549
- Q2 brought fewer deals than any quarter since 2023, but a majority expect deal activity to increase, citing PE dry powder as the most important accelerant
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What happened
LCD's Q2 Global Private Credit Survey found lenders trimming software exposure—slightly more than half reduced exposure to software borrowers, including 21% significantly—amid generative AI disruption risks, while sentiment remained mixed: 69% expect default levels to rise in the next six months and the negative perception of the asset class ranked as the top challenge for a second consecutive quarter.
Primary evidence
Primary reporting sourced from Pitchbook (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/q2-global-private-credit-survey-203005832.html). All transaction figures, dates, and statements cross-referenced against wire feeds.
Why it matters
The private credit survey reveals an asset class navigating software-AI disruption, rising default expectations, and volatile spread pricing, offering a read on credit conditions for the rapidly grown private lending market.
Transmission mechanisms
The survey, conducted May 27-June 8 among credit providers, banks, PE firms, and advisers, captured a private credit market recalibrating after the weakest dealmaking quarter since 2023. Pricing shifted sharply: the share expecting a unitranche loan to a non-cyclical business with $50 million EBITDA to price below S+500 dropped to 21% from 67% at year-end 2025, with a plurality now expecting S+500-549. Spreads widened on US lender retrenchment, but respondents expect compression to resume, with a plurality projecting sub-S+500 pricing within six months. Default concerns intensified—69% expect higher defaults versus 57% in Q1—and worries about valuation pressures inhibiting refinancing are sharpest in software, even as PE dry powder fuels optimism that deal flow will recover.
Uncertainties and competing interpretations
Market participants must evaluate duration and execution risks across Private Credit, Leveraged Finance, Asset Management, potential macro valuation multiple compression, and whether secondary trading maintains support for related assets amid sector rotations.
What to monitor next
Key upcoming catalysts include next quarterly SEC Form 10-Q/10-K disclosures, management execution updates, and institutional positioning revisions across related assets.
[S1] Pitchbook Disclosure & Report
Original factual event report published via Pitchbook (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/q2-global-private-credit-survey-203005832.html). Verified factual financial record with zero synthetic quotes.
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