What is Preqin Private Credit?
Preqin Private Credit brings the market together. Spanning closed-end funds, semi-liquid structures and underlying assets, it delivers structured data across sector, geography, performance, risk, liquidity and terms. All data is unified in a single, AI-driven workflow — providing greater transparency and enabling on-demand analysis from market level to individual instruments.
Whether you're a fund manager benchmarking deals, an allocator screening managers, or a wealth professional assessing semi-liquid products, Preqin Private Credit provides connected data, analytics, and deep research to support your workflows with greater transparency and consistency.
What's included
BDC analytics
Access standardized, loan level BDC holdings data across listed, non traded, and private vehicles, and use integrated analytics to compare funds consistently and identify where concentration, maturity, pricing, and liquidity risks are building.
Proprietary Transaction Intelligence
Connect BDC analysis to the wider private credit market through proprietary transaction intelligence spanning 47,000+ instruments and $1.3tn* of invested capital, extending visibility beyond the BDC universe to deal activity, pricing, and market structure.
*As of April 2026.
BDC indices
Measure private credit performance using asset level BDC indices built from standardized holdings data, with flexible segmentation to support peer comparison, manager assessment, and product evaluation.
AI-powered research
Build dashboards on the fly with AI-powered research capabilities to identify which funds hold a specific issuer, compare how marks differ across holders, surface valuation discrepancies, and track how sector or maturity exposures have evolved.
Key benefits
GPs
Preqin Private Credit gives fund managers a single, connected market reference point across investor relations, deal benchmarking, risk oversight, and competitive positioning.
Support portfolio differentiation — Analyze portfolio overlaps against peers using co-ownership overlap analysis. Compare sector, lien, and maturity profiles against peer cohorts and use issuer-level mark dispersion data to support valuation narratives with independent market context. Leverage BDC Indices to assess portfolio construction and performance.
Benchmark before you deploy — Benchmark new lending opportunities comparable issuers and instruments in Preqin's proprietary transaction intelligence dataset. Track how the market is evolving and see how similar credits are structured, priced and marked across the market.
Enhance risk assessment and valuation governance — Compare your marks to peer marks on the same issuers using Issuer Deep Dive and mark dispersion views. Monitor stressed and distressed buckets, maturity walls, and sector health to detect risk before it surfaces in fund-level returns.
Map your competitive positioning — Leverage cohort-level comparisons by strategy, vehicle type, lien, and sector to identify where differentiation is possible. Track sector, lien, maturity, and pricing trends using consistent classifications and asset-level indices to inform deployment strategy and new fund positioning with a clearer view of market direction.
LPs
Preqin Private Credit gives LPs the holdings-level data and analytical tools to move from fund-level orientation to sector-, issuer-, and instrument-level analysis in a single, connected view.
Screen and select private credit managers — Assess managers based on actual portfolio construction by looking through into BDC holdings data and transaction intelligence covering closed-end direct lending funds. Compare listed BDCs, non-traded BDCs, and institutional closed-ended funds on a consistent like-for-like basis.
Assess portfolio overlap and strategy — Unlock holdings-level visibility and identify hidden overlap and concentration across all funds in the book at issuer- and sector-level to support more informed allocation decisions. Understand where refinancing pressure and maturity clustering are happening to pinpoint where risk is most concentrated.
Enhance valuation and risk monitoring — Surface valuation dispersion at issuer- and lien-level across all holders of an underlying issuer. Challenge or support internal valuations with external evidence using AI-powered research. Bring independent, committee-ready external market context to risk and valuation committee discussions.
Wealth managers
Preqin Private Credit provides a connected view across the BDC and semi-liquid universe — structured, consistent, and built for wealth management workflows.
Deepen your due diligence — Compare listed BDCs, non-traded BDCs, and other semi-liquid structures side-by-side on a consistent basis across holdings, sector mix, maturity walls, pricing health, capital flows, and share class terms.
Move from headline yield to real insight — Explain what is inside the product clearly by accessing structured views of underlying holdings, top issuers, sector mix, and maturity profiles for specific BDC and semi-liquid products. Ground liquidity conversations in evidence with actual inflow and redemption data.
Track how approved products evolve — Monitor holdings, risk profiles, and liquidity behavior on an ongoing basis to spot material changes since initial approval.
Catch concentration before clients do — Explain what is inside the product clearly by accessing structured views of underlying holdings, top issuers, sector mix, and maturity profiles for specific BDC and semi-liquid products.
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How do I access Preqin Private Credit?
Preqin Private Credit is available within Preqin Pro. Navigate to “Market & Analytics” in the top navigation bar to find Private Credit.
Don't have access yet? Speak to your Preqin account manager to explore Preqin Private Credit further or book a demo to see it in action.