Oportun Financial (NASDAQ:OPRT) stock fell 3.0% in Thursday midday trading after Jefferies downgraded the consumer finance company that offers personal loans and credit cards to Hold from Buy, ...

U.S. margin debt rose again in December, extending a relentless climb in investor leverage to a record for the seventh consecutive month. Data from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ...

As regular Fund Finance Friday readers know, articles in this newsletter often explore emerging trends in fund finance and fund finance-adjacent areas, and in this article, we will look at ...

The rise of the direct lending market has led to a dramatic rise in supporting liquidity strategies to optimize the market. These strategies include the use of financings to provide market ...

(Bloomberg) -- Finding steep competition from the broadly syndicated market, private credit firms are offering one benefit to potential borrowers: leverage. Direct lenders are pitching higher leverage ...