JPMorgan’s Trades Threaten to Take Privacy Out of Private Credit

  • Biggest US bank made a couple of billion in secondary trades
  • Market divided over trading of debt; some see distress ahead

The JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is making the titans of private credit markets very anxious.

The biggest US bank’s foray into trading private credit loans — an as yet largely untapped corner of the $1.7 trillion market — threatens to lift the veil on a world where a key selling point has been privacy of information about the debt.