Private Credit Under Pressure: Uncovering Hidden Risks in a Rapidly Expanding Market
Panel discussionCredit Risk
2026-09-24 | 03:00 PM - 03:40 PM | OG Anunoby Room
Information
- As private credit takes a larger share of portfolios, how are you building independent views on unrated and illiquid risk for governance, valuation confidence, and investment decision-making?
- How are you identifying and managing indirect exposures to private credit through shared borrowers, fund lending lines, and investor overlaps?
- What role should AI early warning systems play in building resilience and capturing second-order effects from private credit stress?
- How confident are you in the valuations your counterparties are carrying on illiquid assets, and how do you challenge marks you cannot independently verify?
- Where does responsibility for private credit concentration risk sit within your institution, and how integrated is the oversight between credit risk, treasury, and the front office?
Speakers
Sema Kirdar
Wells Fargo
Head of Enterprise Counterparty Risk Management
Luke Thomas
Blackrock
Head of Risk for Private Credit
Joshua Kohn
Vanguard
Senior Investment Director, Oversight & Manager Search