Wednesday 25th February 2026
Americas: 10am EST
Europe: 3pm GMT
The ARR Reckoning: Decoding Software Stress Across Credit
About the event
Join CreditSights and Fitch Ratings for a co‑hosted webinar featuring Winnie Cisar, Global Head of Strategy at CreditSights, together with Andrew Hedlund of LFI, John Kim of Covenant Review, and Lyle Margolis from Fitch Ratings Private Credit. The discussion will focus on the recent AI‑fueled turbulence in software credits and the resulting ripple effects across leveraged finance markets, including the heavily exposed private credit segment.
The panel will examine fundamentals and recent trading activity across the software sector, highlighting how conditions are diverging across private credit, broadly syndicated loans, and high‑yield bonds. Through a cross‑market perspective, the session will explore credit quality trends, structural considerations, and how investors are navigating volatility and market dislocation in an evolving software credit landscape.
Discussion Topics Include:
- Software selloff drivers: Key factors behind the software credit selloff and an assessment of how the dislocation is impacting private credit, BSL, and HY markets.
- Credit & liquidity: Bixby‑ and Fitch Ratings‑powered insights into credit quality trends and risks, highlighting differentiation across markets and identifying areas of potential liquidity stress.
- Covenant protection: Analysis of covenant implications and deal structures, including the presence or absence of structural protections and their impact on lender risk.
- Outlook & opportunities: Market outlook with a focus on contagion risk and potential opportunities emerging from the current dislocation.
Following their remarks will be live Q&A, if you have any questions in advance please send to events@creditsights.com
Speakers
Winnie Cisar
Global Head of Strategy
CreditSights
Andrew Hedlund
Managing Editor
LevFin Insights
John Kim
Director, Covenant Analyst
Covenant Review
Lyle Margolis
Head of Private Credit
Fitch Ratings
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