Goldman Sachs Targets 'Rapid Growth' Private Debt Market... Establishes Integrated Business Unit

Goldman Sachs, a major U.S. investment bank, has established an integrated division targeting the rapidly growing private credit market.

On the 13th (local time), Goldman Sachs announced the creation of the "Capital Solutions Group" to strengthen services for corporate and investment clients and to expand its business related to private equity and private funds. The newly established organization includes the "Financial Sponsors" team providing investment banking services to private equity firms, the "Global Financing Group" that identifies capital investors, and the "FICC Financing" team that offers secured loans to lenders including private credit funds.

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This organizational restructuring is interpreted as a strategy to actively respond to the growth of the private credit and other private investment markets. By linking the core departments of the company’s two main business pillars?investment banking and asset management?the strategy aims to prevent the rapidly growing market from being taken over by non-bank financial companies, including hedge funds. In recent years, while large Wall Street banks have focused on prime loans due to strengthened regulatory capital requirements, the private credit market led by non-bank financial companies has expanded rapidly.

David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, stated, "We will be operating at the center of the most important structural changes currently occurring in the financial industry," explaining that "the emergence and growth of private credit and other asset classes available for private investment represent that change." He emphasized that "there is significant demand for private credit and private equity among investment clients," and that this organizational restructuring will create synergy with the existing investment banking and asset management divisions.

The newly established Capital Solutions Group will be led by Peter Ryan, Global Head of Financial and Strategic Investors Group at Goldman Sachs Group, and Mahesh Saireddy, Global Head of Mortgage and Structured Products. They will also join the company’s management committee.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) noted the background of this restructuring, stating, "Goldman Sachs executives believe that a few private credit firms and other similar financial companies will soon dominate the lending market." The publication reported, "Goldman Sachs is looking to the future of the financial market and is reorganizing accordingly," describing the new group as one that can capitalize on the rapid growth of private credit and the boom in private equity transactions.