Finance & Banking

Annual Conference 2026

The LSTA Annual Conference 2026 features LSTA experts and leading industry speakers sharing insights on corporate loan market trends over the past year. The event includes keynotes by New York Times bestselling authors, breakout sessions on economic, geopolitical, and AI-driven change, and panels on topics such as BSL and CLO volatility, private credit rebun…

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50Speakers
21Sponsors
19Sessions
60Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Annual, in alphabetical order.

Abby Boxer
Partner, King & Spalding LLP · King & Spalding LLP
Alexander Grishman
Partner, Haynes & Boone LLP · Haynes & Boone LLP
Andrew Berlin
Vice President and Director of Policy Research, LSTA · LSTA
Anusha Joly
Managing Director and Head of CLO Originations & Securitized Products Syndicate, SMBC · SMBC
Barrie Ribet
Managing Director, Head of Structuring, Strategy and Capital Markets, Global Atlantic · Global Atlantic
Brian Bejile
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Octaura · Octaura
Brian Yorke
Global Head of CLO Management, Muzinich & Co. · Muzinich & Co.
Chrissy Lamont Svejnar
Partner, Secondaries, Ares Management · Ares Management
Christian Fischer
Partner, Davis Polk · Davis Polk
Daniel Drabkin
Partner, Investment Funds, Sidley Austin LLP · Sidley Austin LLP
Daniel Kamensky
Adjunct Professor of Finance, NYU Stern and Founder, Creditor Rights Coalition · NYU Stern
Daniel Pombo
Global Head of Debt Advisory, J.P. Morgan · J.P. Morgan
David Hamilton
Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Research, Moody's · Moody's
David Kamp
Chief Technology Officer, Versana · Versana
David Yahalomi
Co-founder and COO, Hypercore · Hypercore
Derek Fricke
Senior Managing Director and Head of Direct Investments, Junior Capital & Private Equity Solutions, Churchill · Churchill
Edward Fishman
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare · Council on Foreign Relations
Edwin Wilches
CFA, Managing Director and Co-head of Securitized Products, PGIM Fixed Income · PGIM Fixed Income
Elizabeth Yazgi
Assistant General Counsel, LSTA · LSTA
Ellen Hefferan
Executive Vice President of Operations & Accounting, LSTA · LSTA
Erica L. Frontiero
CEO, EF Advisors; Senior Advisor, LSTA · EF Advisors
Eric Neglia
Global Head of Corporate Portfolio Finance and Direct Lending, KBRA · KBRA

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

EtherealizePlatinum
PitchBook LCDPlatinum
VersanaPlatinum
FISGold
9finSilver
Alter DomusSilver
GLAS AmericasSilver
Kroll Agency & Trustee Services Ltd.Silver
U.S. Bank N.A.Silver
Xceptor Ltd.Silver
Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (AFS)Pearl
Broadridge Financial SolutionsPearl
CUSIP Global ServicesPartner
DealCatalystPartner
Fitch RatingsPartner
LaminaPearl
LSEG Data & AnalyticsPartner
Morningstar IndexesPartner
SolvePearl
S&P GlobalPearl
SS&C AdventPearl

Agenda

Selected from 19 sessions.

  • 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

    Coffee break

  • 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

    Financing the AI Boom

    Digital infrastructure – the data centers, GPU clusters and power systems behind the AI build-out – has become the largest financing story in credit markets, with hundreds of billi…

  • 11:45 AM - 12:35 PM

    Keynote: How Business Can Navigate the Age of Economic Warfare

    From sanctions and export controls to tariffs and investment bans, geopolitics is now a front-line risk for global business. This keynote explains how economic warfare has become a…

  • 12:35 PM - 1:25 PM

    Lunch

  • 1:25 PM - 2:10 PM

    Private Credit’s Great Rebundling: Where is the Edge Now?

    Private credit was built on specialization. Now, the largest players are getting bigger, broader and increasingly harder to categorize as lenders, investors, allocators and distrib…

  • 2:10 PM - 3:00 PM

    Keynote: AI Ethics from Sydney to the Singularity

    Kevin’s creepy chat with ''Sydney,'' the sinister AI chatbot built into Microsoft’s Bing search engine, made headlines all over the world when it was published in a front-page New …

  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

    Coffee break

  • 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM

    Building Frictionless Corporate Loan Markets: AI, Shared Ledgers and Interoperability

    Traditional corporate loan markets remain constrained by siloed data, manual asset tracking, and inefficient settlement processes, but emerging technologies - including AI, shared …

  • 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM

    IG Private Credit: How Big is the Opportunity Set?

    Investment-grade private credit now reaches insurance portfolios through several distinct paths – direct lending to IG-rated corporates, CLO and structured credit tranches, and ass…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 60 companies show up, and 2 bet on three roles at once?

60 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
2All threespeak · spons · exh
19Sponsoringsponsor only
39Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Etherealize·Versana

Speakers by seniority

94% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite612%
  • Founder / Owner1326%
  • VP-level612%
  • Director / Head of2244%
  • Other roles36%

Of 50 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1LSTA7
2EtherealizeSponsor · Platinum1
3VersanaSponsor · Platinum1
49finSponsor · Silver-
5Alter DomusSponsor · Silver-
6Automated Financial Systems, Inc. (AFS)Sponsor · Pearl-
7Broadridge Financial SolutionsSponsor · Pearl-
8CUSIP Global ServicesSponsor · Partner-
9DealCatalystSponsor · Partner-
10FISSponsor · Gold-
11Fitch RatingsSponsor · Partner-
12GLAS AmericasSponsor · Silver-
13Kroll Agency & Trustee Services Ltd.Sponsor · Silver-
14LaminaSponsor · Pearl-
Sponsors by tier
platinum3
14% of 21
gold1
5% of 21
silver6
29% of 21
partner5
24% of 21
pearl6
29% of 21
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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