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Summary
Private credit continues to attract institutional capital, but the rapid growth of the asset class has brought increased scrutiny around valuation practices, liquidity management, transparency, and investor reporting. For CIOs, fund managers, valuation committees, and risk leaders, the ability to produce timely, defensible, and consistent valuations is becoming a strategic priority.
Join us for a 60-minute executive discussion on how private credit managers across the US and Europe can strengthen valuation governance, respond to evolving investor and regulatory expectations, and prepare their platforms for future market stress.
The session will examine current market conditions, including redemption pressure and gating considerations, and explore how enhanced data, independent valuation processes, and technology-enabled workflows can help firms improve transparency, reduce operational risk, and build greater confidence with investors and stakeholders.
What Attendees Will Gain:
By attending, participants will gain insight into:
- Current valuation challenges in private credit, including market opacity, illiquidity, and limited comparable data
- How redemption requests and gating pressures are influencing valuation governance and investor communications
- What institutional investors and regulators increasingly expect around transparency, disclosure, and valuation reliability
- How fund structures affect valuation complexity, liquidity management, and reporting obligations
- How data, technology, and independent valuation support can improve consistency, auditability, and resilience
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Philip Roach
EMEA Head of Private Market Valuations
Phil is the EMEA business head for the Private Market Valuations team at S&P Global with 20 years experience working across financial markets.
Phil has led the EMEA team since 2016 where he manages a team of client service professionals providing valuation advisory services across illiquid debt and private equity. He has played a central role in developing the product offering within S&P and driving technology initiatives to bring reliability and efficiencies into valuation services.
Before joining S&P Global, Phil spent 10 years working in investment banking within leveraged finance and restructuring teams where he managed exposures of up to £1bn per transaction. Philip led negotiations with management teams and private equity firms to improve the credit metrics of the book through balance sheet restructures, covenant resets and deal amendments.
Philip is a CFA charter-holder and has a BA from Oxford University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Luca Blasi, PhD FRM
Head of Private Markets & Regulatory Solutions
Luca Blasi is the Head of Private Markets & Regulatory Solutions, leading S&P Global Market Intelligence’s activities on valuations and risk for private market securities (private equity, private credit, ABS and hard-to-value securities).
Luca has over 30 years of experience across many sectors of financial markets including regulators, public sector investment authorities, investment banking and private valuation services. Before joining S&P Global, Luca held senior leadership roles in investment banking valuation control functions in DB and Nordea, as well as leading the valuation and risk management Banking Supervision Risk Specialist team for the Bank of England.
Luca holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics from University of Aberdeen. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Financial Risk Manager Program (GARP) and he is a member of the Financial Instruments Board of the International Valuation Standard Committee (IVSC).
Questions?
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