Mark Walter chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, primary owner and chairman of Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers and a 12.7% of BlueCo, a holding company that controls Premier League club Chelsea on the field after the FIFA Club World Cup Final against Paris Saint-Germain on July, 13, 2025 at MetLife Stadium in East…
Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Co., and Jane Fraser, chief executive officer of Citigroup Inc. Caroline Brehman | Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walk the halls of any major banking conference or listen in on a quarterly earnings call, and one topic keeps coming up: With the window for…
The sudden collapse last fall of a string of American companies backed by private credit has thrust a fast-growing and opaque corner of Wall Street lending into the spotlight. Private credit, also known as direct lending, is a catch-all term for lending done by nonbank institutions. The practice has been around for decades but surged…
Misha Zaitzeff and Vik Ghei, founders of HoldCo Asset Management, at their Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offices. Courtesy: HoldCo American banks have found an unlikely pair of adversaries in Vik Ghei and Misha Zaitzeff. Since July, the nine-person hedge fund they run from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, called HoldCo, has challenged lenders with more than $200 billion…
