Discussion aired live on Bloomberg Markets: The Close on October 6, 2025.
CHICAGO, IL / ACCESS Newswire / October 10, 2025 / Monroe Capital LLC (“Monroe”) Chairman and CEO Ted Koenig appeared on Bloomberg Markets: The Close on October 6, 2025, sharing views on inflation risk, interest-rate cuts, AI infrastructure, and the path for mergers and acquisitions in late 2025. Koenig emphasized that policy clarity is the key catalyst for new financings and deal flow, speaking from the vantage point of a private credit platform with approximately $22 billion in assets under management.
“M&A can’t happen if there is not certainty. Financing can’t happen if there is not certainty. We need to project certainty into the marketplace… It is hard to underwrite when you don’t know what your costs are,” Koenig said on air.
Addressing the rate path, Koenig cautioned that additional cuts are occurring “into a market that is already hot,” noting that
