Partner programme
Work with the Radar
The public Radar shows six indicators for the whole US BDC book. Behind them sits the position panel they are computed from, every loan position followed from quarter to quarter since 2023: at 30 June 2026, more than 36,000 positions, 7,000 borrowers and 160 funds. The partner programme gives access to that depth.
Member
- Fund liquidity: how much investors asked to redeem, how much went unmet, and how far fund cash and undrawn credit lines cover redemption requests and unfunded commitments.
- How long stress lasts: how many loans marked below 90 are still there a quarter later, and where they move next.
- The maturity wall: what falls due in the next 12 and 24 months, and how much is extended rather than repaid.
- Terms on new loans: fees, floors and PIK at origination, to set against your own deals.
- Every indicator by seniority, sponsor status and sector, with software exposure shown on its own; the European book by country and industry from 14 December.
- Fund financials across the BDC universe: leverage, asset coverage, interest and dividend cover, NII and PIK income, fees and waivers, realised and unrealised losses.
- Distress events by tier: hard defaults, amendments under distress, and amendments without a distress marker.
- Listed and non-traded BDCs side by side: marks, PIK and redemptions.
- The panel as quarterly data files, with a data dictionary and a changelog of every method change.
- A written note each quarter on what moved, and a call with the team on release day.
- A discounted ticket for the practitioner day of the Frankfurt Private Capital Symposium.
Partner
Everything members receive, plus
- the history of the data, back to 2017;
- the names behind the tables: platforms, sponsors, the borrowers behind each distress event and the list of impaired exits;
- fund financials and fund liquidity fund by fund;
- the credit ratings history of every BDC, from all agencies, back to 2008, withdrawals included;
- loan-level mark dispersion: how each lender marks the same loan, and the lowest mark;
- a seat at the partner roundtable and at the Symposium practitioner day;
- a small-group release call with Sascha Steffen, and working papers two weeks before SSRN;
- two executive-education seats a year;
- proposals for cuts and topics in later releases.
Research partner
Everything partners receive, plus
- in-depth analysis of the position panel with the research team, on topics agreed with you;
- research on BDC share prices: what the discount to NAV says about future marks and losses;
- research on forecasting and trading strategies built on the panel;
- a voice in the research agenda: a seat at the annual research advisory meeting;
- a half-day in-house session with Sascha Steffen for your team;
- two seats at the partner roundtable and at the Symposium practitioner day;
- named acknowledgement on the research your funding makes possible.
Contribute your book
Managers can also submit their own loan book each quarter and receive it scored against the BDC universe and, once eight managers take part, against a European contributor aggregate. Contributed data stays at Frankfurt School under a data-processing agreement and never enters the public Radar. A pilot with three to five managers starts on 2026 Q4 books in early 2027.
Independence
Partners receive each public release at the same time as everyone else. Their proposals are considered for later releases; the published indicators, the method and the names are decided by the Radar team alone.
Ask for the one-pager with terms: radar@privatecreditradar.eu.