In moments of upheaval and transition, the following articles are designed to build understanding about growing private debt and private equity markets.

Private markets have grown exponentially over the past decade, affecting a wide array of investments.

The emerging cycle of energy transition and climate investing is being “born in the dark.”

S&P Global Ratings' regional and global Credit Conditions Committees—and the research publications S&P Global Ratings produces—provide financial market participants around the world with an essential resource for identifying and understanding prevailing and potential credit risks.

Credit conditions in emerging markets (EMs) will remain under pressure through 2023. Slower economic activity, along with stubborn inflation and rising financing costs, will undermine corporates' and households' payment capacity. On a positive note, supply chains continue normalizing, which should help ease logistics costs.

Amid banks’ likely tightening of lending standards and the erosion of investor sentiment in reaction to the recent banking sector turmoil, borrowers in North America should brace for a stretch of difficult credit conditions.