9fin

There are hundreds of private equity-backed restaurants in London. These days they’re as much a part of the fabric of the city as pubs, pies and pints. But how do they all taste? The 9fin reviewed them to define the precise intersection of finance and flavor. Read the reviews here: https://lnkd.in/eC9cCFFw

When we started covering private credit at 9fin , it was still seen as a niche, opaque corner of the market that was extremely hard to access and benchmark. Now it's much bigger, more institutionalised, and increasingly central to global finance, but also entering a far more complex phase of its evolution. Our first private credit whitepaper takes stock of where things really stand in 2026. "Defensive" is how Shubham Saharan , our US private credit editor, describes the mood: 540 US deals in Q1, spreads reverting to S+500bps, and private credit outpacing BSL on deal count for the first time since Q2 last year. We also track where the market is being stress-tested by software concentration, redemption pressure, the First Brands fallout, and a reckoning on documentation standards. Definitely worth the read if you work in this space: https://lnkd.in/gjy76MA6

It's official — 9fin is live in Asia Pacific 🌏 🚀 What started as a platform redefining debt markets in Europe, and then the US, is now powering DCM professionals across the APAC region — faster intelligence, deeper data, and AI-driven analysis built for the pace of modern credit markets. If you work across DCM in APAC and want to see what a genuine edge looks like in practice, reach out. Read the full announcement here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHDJ3MXS

So excited to bring 9fin to APAC! An awesome team, powerful AI tools, and a unified platform with 20 years of data 📊 We’re now truly global, offering comprehensive coverage of credit anywhere in the world, and across all major debt verticals from IG to LevFin & Distressed 🌏

When I joined 9fin years ago, we were a European business with a primary focus on bonds. Now we're launching in APAC! In between, we've expanded across asset classes, grown the 9fin team, and built out coverage that genuinely serves how credit investors work. Watching that trajectory from the inside has been something else. Huge credit to everyone who got us here, and to the team now on the ground in APAC building the next chapter. https://lnkd.in/ergZpHPk

Our US #privatecredit league tables are out to subscribers -- and well done to Churchill Asset Management for topping the list in Q1 26, followed by MidCap Financial and by Audax Group . 👏 More on this tomorrow on 9fin 👏

We have arrived! Come and meet 9fin 's APAC team this evening (Singapore) and on Thursday (Hong Kong).

We're hiring 🤝 Backend Software Engineers at Scale AI I joined Scale after a 5 year stretch across both B2B & B2C fintech. The powerup that AI creates here has completely blew me away, what I considered industry-leading in fintech is regularly the starting point here. At Scale, you'll work at the frontier; we know what's coming next and the current team have so much fun implementing it in production for some of the biggest household names in the world. Getting AI that 90% works is easy. Anyone with a laptop, anthropic account and knowledge of an agentic library can do it. Getting to 100% effective, production grade, agentic workflows is the challenging innovation that what we work on every day. If you have been building and following AI technology alongside your mid or senior software engineering role and want to learn how to get it from 90% -> 100%, I would love to hear from you 🫵 https://lnkd.in/eu_ypEti (No recruiters please, we use internal talent teams) #hiring #ScaleAI #backendengineering #AI #London

By the middle of the century, one in every 10 children born will be Nigerian. If even 25% of them develop a taste for pints, that's a big opportunity for breweries — especially as sales drop in the western world. So why did Diageo exit Guinness Nigeria? And what does the buyer — Tolaram — see in the market that Diageo didn't? Read our report on 9fin here: https://lnkd.in/e9a88UBE