00:00The increased complexity and the interconnections with leveraged financial entities create more channels through which unexpected losses in private credit could spread to the broader financial system.
00:13What do trends in the sector suggest about the potential for such losses and financial stability risks?
00:19I do not currently see the potential for private credit to contribute to an unexpected credit crunch in the same way that the asset-backed commercial paper market did in 2008.
00:33However, it is well worth keeping a close eye on developments here.
00:38Default rates remain low, but they are a backward-looking measure and could reflect increased usage of payment-and-kind arrangements, or PICs, loan amendments, and distressed exchanges.
00:53Recent private business bankruptcies in the auto sector also revealed unexpected losses and exposure across a broad range of financial entities, including banks, hedge funds, and specially financed companies.
01:08Should we expect to see more?
01:11There are some reasons to interpret the recent failures as outliers.
01:16I do not assess the current risks from private credit to be a threat to financial stability.
01:22The businesses that failed recently may have been more exposed to changes in trade and immigration policy,
01:29made more use of off-balance sheet financing, or have been of poorer credit quality than other private businesses.
01:36Therefore, it is difficult to infer general lessons from these specific cases.
01:44Yet history teaches us a lesson here.
01:46The likelihood of observing additional cases like those recently in the news increases when size of exposure and level of complexity in these arrangements are not transparent.
01:57When a sector experiences periods of rapid growth and when these arrangements have not been through a full cycle, boom and bust of credit.
02:11Accordingly, it will continue to focus on, I will continue to focus on ensuring that we understand developments in this sector and how these lending arrangements are evolving over time.
02:20I will continue to focus on, and I will continue to focus on ensuring that we are Einitma's
02:21and how these things are currently used to be a clear overview of the future.
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