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Private Credit Belongs in the Fixed-Income Sleeve. Against Those Benchmarks, the Numbers Aren't Close.
For the trailing twelve months ending March 31, 2026:† ·
Percent ABS: 14.6% net returns after losses
High-yield bonds: 8.9%
Leveraged loans: 6.1%
Investment-grade bonds: 4.5%
Private credit isn't an equity substitute. It belongs in the fixed-income sleeve — and against bond benchmarks, the performance gap is hard to dismiss. A collateralized loan with a fixed coupon and a defined repayment schedule fills the same portfolio role as a bond, with different terms and a different risk profile.
What you access on Percent:†
17.0% current weighted average coupon rate
93.5% of performing deals pay monthly fixed-rate coupons
Deal terms 6–24 months
Full borrower documentation before you commit a dollar
Starting at $500 $2B+ total issuance. 1,000+ deals. 60,000+ accredited investors. 0.44% lifetime net loss rate on asset-based deals.
Alternative investments are speculative. No assurance can be given that investors will receive a return of their capital. †Past performance is not indicative of future results. Benchmark indices shown for market context only and are not directly comparable to Percent's performance. Terms apply.
What's in Today?
- 🏦 Compliant AI Agents Tackle Banking’s Toughest Workflows
- 📈 TraPilot.ai Bets on AI-Native SEO as Search Evolves
- ⚖️ Steno Raises $49M to Scale AI-Enhanced Court Reporting
- ⚡ Grid Operators Turn to Transformer-Level AI Forecasting
- ❤️ IMPACT‑MED Marries AI and Wearables for Cardiometabolic Care
- 🌾 AI Crop Monitoring Targets Smallholder Yield and Waste
🏦 Compliant AI Agents Tackle Banking’s Toughest Workflows
AI startup Genta unveils a compliant AI agent framework built for banks and financial institutions operating under strict regulatory regimes. The architecture emphasizes auditable reasoning, granular access controls, and policy-aligned prompts, enabling automation of onboarding, KYC reviews, and complex back-office workflows without breaching risk, privacy, or compliance boundaries.
Expect early adopters to shift from experimental pilots to full production agents embedded deep in regulated financial operations.
The IT strategy every team needs for 2026
2026 will redefine IT as a strategic driver of global growth. Automation, AI-driven support, unified platforms, and zero-trust security are becoming standard, especially for distributed teams. This toolkit helps IT and HR leaders assess readiness, define goals, and build a scalable, audit-ready IT strategy for the year ahead. Learn what’s changing and how to prepare.
📈 TraPilot.ai Bets on AI-Native SEO as Search Evolves
TraPilot.ai launches an AI-native SEO services platform positioned as a next-generation search optimization engine for brands navigating rapidly changing ranking algorithms. The company, highlighted by Agile Brand Guide, promises continuous content optimization, competitive intelligence, and search intent modeling driven by proprietary AI workflows instead of manual keyword research.
Marketers relying on legacy SEO tactics will feel intensifying pressure to adopt AI-first tooling to stay visible in search.
⚖️ Steno Raises $49M to Scale AI-Enhanced Court Reporting
Legal tech firm Steno secures $49 million in Series C funding to expand its AI-augmented court reporting and litigation support platform. The company blends human court reporters with AI transcription, exhibit management, and workflow automation, aiming to reduce delays, improve accuracy, and streamline evidence handling across complex civil cases.
Expect courts, law firms, and insurers to accelerate adoption of AI-native reporting as backlogs and cost pressures mount.
⚡ Grid Operators Turn to Transformer-Level AI Forecasting
Energy Central showcases a utility deploying AI-driven transformer-level load forecasting to modernize grid planning. By predicting demand at individual transformer nodes, the approach improves visibility, reduces overload risk, and supports targeted infrastructure investments, while enabling more flexible integration of distributed energy resources and electric vehicle charging.
Utilities that master fine-grained forecasting will gain a structural advantage in reliability, capex allocation, and clean-energy integration.
Claude is not just a chatbot anymore. Is your security team ready?
Claude.ai is one thing. Agentic workflows, MCP connections, ungoverned skills taking actions across your data? That's a different conversation — and most security teams aren't equipped for it.
Harmonic Security gives your CISO the visibility and controls to say yes confidently.
❤️ IMPACT‑MED Marries AI and Wearables for Cardiometabolic Care
The EU‑funded IMPACT‑MED project launches to integrate AI, wearables, and connected medical devices into a unified cardiometabolic care model across Europe. Continuous monitoring of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular risk feeds into decision-support tools for clinicians, targeting earlier intervention, personalized treatment pathways, and reduced hospitalizations.
Healthcare systems piloting such data-rich models could redefine chronic disease management and reimbursement frameworks across regions.
🌾 AI Crop Monitoring Targets Smallholder Yield and Waste
A new AI-driven crop monitoring platform debuts to support smallholder farmers with satellite imaging, sensor data, and predictive analytics. The system flags nutrient stress, pest risks, and irrigation needs in near real time, helping optimize fertilizer and water use, reduce input waste, and stabilize yields under increasingly volatile climate conditions.
Agtech that reaches smallholders at low cost may materially influence food security, resilience, and rural incomes over the next decade.
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