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Picture by Stein Egil Liland (https://www.pexels.com/@therato/)

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the economy of Scandinavia, accounting for a significant portion of the region's GDP and employment. However, despite their importance, SMEs in Scandinavia challenges when it comes to funding their operations and growth.

The New Normal (...again)

Like most crisis before, this time is completely different and completely the same. But one aspect of the predicament we and the markets find ourselves in is clear already - it is not a crisis of liquidity as was the case in the late 00's. Instead liquidity is plentiful, the question being where will that liquidity find a home in the face of heightened uncertainty and a shifting geopolitical and economic landscape?

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Image by pixabay.com

In the past few weeks, the Private Debt market and its participants were a frequent subject to headlines in the business and financial news. Does that mean that this market, now about a decade old in Europe and two decades old in the US, is becoming mainstream?