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Bank Lending to Private Equity and Private Credit Funds: Insights from Regulatory Data


Abstract: In this note, we examine large banks’ lending to private equity (PE) and private credit (PC) funds. Using a manual matching algorithm, we estimate that large banks’ total loan commitments to PE/PC fund sponsors are approximately $300 billion, or 14 percent of their total loan commitments to non-bank financial institutions, as of 2023, up from around $10 billion, or about one percent, in 2013.

Keywords: private credit; private equity; non-bank financial institutions; bank lending;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Part of Series: Supervisory Research and Analysis Notes

Publication Date: 2025-02-05

Issue: 2025-02

Pages: 18