Disclosures
Chair. The DWS Senior Chair in Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is endowed by DWS Group. DWS has no role in the research, its publication or the content of this site.
Centre for European Transformation. The Centre is funded by DWS and by a partner programme contracted through Frankfurt School. Partners are listed on the Centre’s pages at Frankfurt School. The Centre’s research team works on the Private Credit Radar.
Private Credit Radar. The Radar is published under my name on privatecreditradar.eu. Its partner programme is contracted through Frankfurt School; partners receive depth tables, briefings and closed-door sessions, never data that is not published. The Radar uses public and commercially licensed data only and never supervisory data. Nothing in it is attributable to the European Systemic Risk Board, the European Central Bank or any supervisory authority.
Research grants. FIRM (2025, 2019); hessian.AI (2024); DWS, Centre for European Transformation (2022); Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, safeFBDC (2021); German Research Foundation, DFG (2020, 2017, 2008); EU Commission DG ECFIN research scholarship (2016); Volkswagen Stiftung (2016); Peter Curtius Foundation; Inquire Europe; Center for Financial Studies; Lamfalussy Fellowship of the European Central Bank (2010); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2009).
Paid engagements. Keynotes, executive education and closed-door sessions for boards and investment committees are contracted through Frankfurt School. Engagements in the last 24 months with firms whose numbers appear in the Private Credit Radar: [list maintained quarterly; none to report as of October 2026].
Positions. Member of the ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee (unpaid); Research Fellow, CEPR and SAFE; Member, Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland; Advisory Board, hessian.AI; Board of Trustees, Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft; academic advisory boards of FIRM and of the Research Data and Service Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank. [Statement on personal holdings in listed BDCs or private credit funds, to be added.]
Last updated: October 2026.