Private Credit in Focus: A New Era of Transparency, Data and Benchmarking

Private credit has become one of the fastest-growing asset classes within global capital markets. In the first half of 2026 alone, private credit fundraising reached USD 190 billion—on pace to surpass last year’s total of USD 240 billion*. Direct lending has driven much of this growth and has become an increasingly important source of financing for private companies in the U.S. and Europe.

As markets continue to scale, the need for timely, transparent and granular benchmarks increases as market participants seek to better understand performance, risk, valuation trends and changing market dynamics.

Join industry leaders from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Lincoln International on October 15, 2026, at 10am EDT | 3pm BST, for a discussion drawing on S&P DJI’s indexing expertise and Lincoln International’s extensive asset-level valuation data and private capital markets insights. 

The session will explore the evolution of private credit benchmarking, the rise of asset-level indices and how more robust data can help market participants monitor conditions, evaluate portfolios and better understand performance and risk with greater confidence and clarity. 

Register now to learn how greater transparency and more timely data are reshaping private credit benchmarking.
 

Key topics:

• The growth and institutionalization of private credit markets — including the forces driving demand for more transparent, timely and independent benchmarks.
• Why traditional private credit benchmarking has struggled to keep pace — and how the market is shifting from fund-level measurement toward asset-level performance and risk insights.
• How asset-level data is changing the conversation — introducing the S&P Lincoln Senior Debt Indices, highlighting monthly index calculation capabilities and sub-indices by industry, loan seniority and borrower EBITDA, plus key differences between direct lending and broadly syndicated loan markets.
• Practical use cases and credit market insights — from benchmarking portfolios and monitoring credit conditions to identifying trends in operating performance, spreads and default risk across private credit.

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*Source: “Private Credit Fundraising H1: Market on Course for Record Year” With Intelligence by S&P Global. Data as of June 30, 2026.