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Matt Wirz

ARTICLES BY MATT WIRZ

Moody's warns Wall Street's push for private funds in retail could overheat markets and backfire. (REUTERS)

Moody’s sounds alarm on private funds for individuals

2 min read . 11 Jun 2025

Klarna recently said it would start financing for Walmart’s customers.

The AI middleman expanding in the consumer-bond bonanza

2 min read . 22 May 2025

Data-center giant Digital Realty had its biggest fundraising year in 2024. Photo: Jason Andrew for WSJ

AI is Wall Street’s modern gold rush. Here’s how investors are placing bets.

5 min read . 03 Feb 2025

Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York, US. Goldman Sachs this month sold $475 million of public asset-backed securitization. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Watch out; Wall Street is finding new ways to slice and dice loans

5 min read . 23 Oct 2024

Some of the largest mutual-fund managers are teaming up with titans of private credit, and the sums at stake are massive. (Image: Pixabay)

Wall Street races to bring private credit to the masses

5 min read . 03 Oct 2024

(Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ; iStock)

The art market is tanking. Sotheby’s has even bigger problems.

13 min read . 25 Sep 2024

Loan investors of radio broadcaster iHeartMedia are organizing to protect themselves against potential restructuring. (Zuma Press)

Coming to a cash-strapped company near you: creditor-on-creditor violence

5 min read . 19 Aug 2024

Truist is among the regional lenders that are working to sell the risk on billions of dollars of loans.

Regional banks want to slim down. Hedge funds smell a bargain.

4 min read . 19 Jun 2024

Today, traditional and alternative asset managers control twice as many assets as U.S. banks, giving them increasing control over the purse strings of the U.S. economy. KYLE ELLINGSON FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Move aside, big banks: Giant funds now rule Wall Street

6 min read . 22 Apr 2024

If asset-based finance by private funds grows as quickly as corporate lending did, consumer, equipment and specialty lending by private funds could rise to $900 billion in the next few years from $350 billion currently.

Private Equity Wants Your Credit Card Debt. And Car Loan. And Mortgage.

4 min read . 14 Mar 2024

U.S. travel surged after the pandemic and continues to grow, but rental costs are rising.

A Hedge Fund Made a Killing on Avis Stock. Now the Trade Is Backfiring.

4 min read . 26 Feb 2024

Central bank headquarters in Beijing. China has become the biggest lender to developing countries. (Photo: Reuters)

China turns the tables on Wall Street

5 min read . 13 Dec 2023

JPMorgan Chase has been working on deals to cut capital charges on about $25 billion of its corporate and consumer loans.

Big Banks Cook Up New Way to Unload Risk

4 min read . 07 Nov 2023

Private-equity firms have been building a financing machine that produces complex private-debt instruments but often at lower yields than their traditional clients demand. Insurers are happy to buy (Photo: Bloomberg)

Private equity taps insurers’ cash to speed up growth

4 min read . 31 Jan 2023

Bonds over stocks: The new 60-40 portfolio

4 min read . 17 Jan 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York building (Photo: Reuters)

Fed rate increases are squeezing consumer-finance companies

6 min read . 16 Dec 2022

JPMorgan ranks fourth among American arrangers of buyout bonds and loans. Photo: Bloomberg

JPMorgan dodges a buyout-loan bullet

3 min read . 19 Nov 2022

Markets are stalling because the price of borrowed money is spiking as the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates to combat inflation (Photo: AP)

Raising money on Wall Street hasn’t been this hard in a decade

5 min read . 07 Nov 2022

UK crisis spills into US junk debt

5 min read . 11 Oct 2022

Interest payments on the loans float in lockstep with benchmark interest rates set by the Federal Reserve

Junk-loan defaults worry wall street investors

5 min read . 06 Sep 2022