Technology

Ropes & Gray: The starting grid

Lenders are increasingly recognising that strong interconnectivity and business resilience strategies will be key to infra investment going forward, say Ropes & Gray partners Paul Armstrong and Emmanuel Mimin and counsel Sean Darling.

BNP Paribas on driving digital success – how fund administrators accelerate adoption

How can private markets firms deploy the latest technology to optimise their operations? Guillaume Doinet, global product strategy and innovation lead, Securities Services, BNP Paribas, provides insights.

AI boom must confront environmental worries

The growth in data centre investment brings concerns about energy consumption in the sector – how are borrowers and lenders addressing this?

How AI gives underwriting a boost

The latest technology is allowing managers to streamline their operations when planning and executing transactions.

The modelling challenge facing CMBS

The commercial mortgage-backed securities market is seeking ways to adapt the use of AI to its requirements.

Arrow Global: Evaluating private credit origination models

From self-sourcing to bank partnerships and synthetic risk transfers, private credit origination models vary widely, with implications for the underlying investor, says Arrow Global’s Toni McDermott.

Blackstone allies with transportation infrastructure firm ITE Management

BXCI makes a minority investment in the alternatives manager.

LX Partners creates a first in Portugal

‘We took a long journey of three years of technology investments and regulatory approvals, and today we are the first credit fund approved in Portugal,’ says LX Partners’ Founding partner Vittorio Calvi.

How private debt is going public

Distinctions are becoming blurred as the asset class seeks to tap into the vast wealth market.

Thoma Bravo closes Credit Fund III on $3.6bn

Software-focused fund raises more than twice its target; $1bn is already at work in 20 companies.