lending

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Private credit refers to nonbank lending to businesses.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Borrowers tend to have lower credit quality and pay higher interest rates than they would through traditional bank lending.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Bank Indonesia lifted its base lending rate to 5.25 percent, it said, to help stabilise the devaluing rupiah and keep inflation in check.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Their assets also often include equity stakes, sometimes even in other lending funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Their relationships with others were of a shallow, cold nature, lending a quality of loneliness and isolation to these men.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote