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private credit

private credit noun: an aspect of the shadow banking system involving assets defined by non-bank lending where the debt is not issued or traded on the public markets, unlike corporate bonds and municipal bonds.

Noun

private credit (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) An aspect of the shadow banking system involving assets defined by non-bank lending where the debt is not issued or traded on the public markets, unlike corporate bonds and municipal bonds.
    • Holonym: shadow banking system
    • The man who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 financial crash says he can “smell” a fresh crisis brewing. Lloyd Blankfein said he saw parallels to the global financial crisis and saw signs the economy was getting closer to a crash. “I wonder where there’s hidden secret leverage,” he said in an...2026 March 2, Tom Saunders, “I smell a crash coming, says former Goldman Sachs boss: Ex-chief believes there are parallels to global financial crisis amid shadow banking concerns”, in The Telegraph

Questions about private credit

What does private credit mean?
Private credit means an aspect of the shadow banking system involving assets defined by non-bank lending where the debt is not issued or traded on the public markets, unlike corporate bonds and municipal bonds.
What part of speech is private credit?
Private credit is a noun.

Words near private credit in the dictionary

  1. private candidates
  2. private car
  3. private cars
  4. private cost
  5. private costs
  6. private credit
  7. private detective
  8. private detectives
  9. private dick
  10. private dicks
  11. private docent

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