Keynotes and panels on private credit, for investors, regulators and boards.
Recent audiences include the PDI DACH Forum, the TSI Congress, the ANU-FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the IMF and the ESRB. Talks draw on the Private Credit Radar and current working papers, so every chart comes with a source and a vintage.
- Cyclicality in direct lending: who lends when banks pull back
- Where private credit is under stress, measured from the filings
- Bank credit lines to nonbanks: the backstop that depends on what it replaces
- Private credit and financial stability in Europe: what supervisors can and cannot see
- Data-centre and AI-compute financing: who bears the risk
BAI Private Debt Symposium 2027
Bundesverband Alternative Investments · Scandic Frankfurt Hafenpark. Session to be announced
Invited research seminars
European Central Bank · Banque de France · Central Bank of Ireland
Impact, Insights and Innovation at Frankfurt School
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Keynotes, panels and invited talks
Listings link to the organiser's programme where one is published.
Munich
PDI DACH Forum 2026 Keynote
Private Debt Investor · Hilton Munich City · Navigating Opportunity through a Shifting Private Credit Landscape: cyclicality in direct lending
Berlin
TSI Congress 2026 Panel
True Sale International · Private Credit: Finanzstabilität durch Diversifikation? With Dennis Heuer (White & Case) and Christian Burkard (DCCP); moderated by Stefan Henkelmann (A&O Shearman)
Frankfurt
True Sale Initiative, event on private credit Keynote
TSI · Private Credit
Vienna
FSB Regional Consultative Group for Europe, roundtable on private credit Speaker
Financial Stability Board
Frankfurt
1st Frankfurt Private Capital Symposium Host
Centre for European Transformation, Frankfurt School · Scale-Up Finance Roundtable (16 Jun, invitation only) and academic day (17 Jun); chair of the Victoria Ivashina keynote; The Cyclicality of Direct Lending presented, discussed by Bo Becker
Frankfurt
CfET 3rd Annual Conference: Financing European Sovereignty Host
Centre for European Transformation, Frankfurt School · Launch of the Transformation Investment Compass
Invited research seminars
Federal Reserve Bank of New York · International Monetary Fund, Washington · ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee, Frankfurt · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · University of Glasgow · Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Toulouse Business School
Canberra
ANU-FIRN Banking and Financial Stability Meeting Keynote
Australian National University and FIRN · Nonbank Lending in Corporate Finance
Frankfurt
DZ Bank Capital Markets Conference Speaker
DZ Bank
Singapore
NUS Business School research seminar
National University of Singapore · PIK Now and Pay Later: How Deferred Interest Reshapes Private Credit
Frankfurt
SEB Treasury Summit Speaker
SEB
Frankfurt
CfET 2nd Annual Conference: Powering European Competitiveness Panel
Centre for European Transformation, Frankfurt School · Financing Transformation in a Geopolitically Uncertain World, with Hauke Burkhardt (Deutsche Bank) and Vincenzo Vedda (DWS)
Frankfurt
C-Level Insights: Shaping Europe's Transition, with Stefan Wintels, CEO KfW Moderator
Frankfurt School
Frankfurt
Frankfurt Digital Finance Conference Speaker
Invited research seminars
Norges Bank · De Nederlandsche Bank and University of Amsterdam · ESRB Nonbank Financial Institutions Group · NUS and SMU Singapore · Fudan University · Peking University · City University of Hong Kong · ESCP Turin · UTS, Sydney and UNSW · Goethe University and SAFE
Milan
Much Money, Little Capital, and Few Reforms: The 2023 Banking Turmoil Keynote
Bocconi University, IEP@BU and BAFFI Centre · Geneva Report 27, with Ignazio Angeloni; chaired by Elena Carletti
Frankfurt
CEPR launch of Geneva Report 27 Moderator
CEPR at Frankfurt School · Presenters Angeloni and Claessens; discussant Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)
London
4th Annual Conference on the Non-Bank Financial Sector and Financial Stability Presenter
Bank of England, Imperial College and LSE · Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets
Frankfurt
CfET Inaugural Conference: Can Europe Lead the Transformation? Host
Centre for European Transformation, Frankfurt School · Opening with Nils Stieglitz and Stefan Hoops (DWS)
Vienna
OeNB / SUERF Annual Economic Conference Presenter
Oesterreichische Nationalbank and SUERF
Amsterdam
Financial Times Future of Finance Keynote
Financial Times · The Intersection of AI and Finance
Brussels
9th EFI Network Workshop on Financial Intermediation Keynote
EFI Network
Santiago de Chile
IV Meeting of Heads of Financial Risk Management in Central Banks Keynote
CEMLA and Banco Central de Chile · Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets
Frankfurt
DWS Annual Investor Meeting Keynote
DWS · European Transformation
Wall Street mit Markus Koch, live talk on the banking turmoil Speaker
Podcast featured by Handelsblatt
Zurich
Swiss National Bank research seminar
Swiss National Bank
Earlier engagements, 2012–2020
- 2020: Brazilian Finance Meeting, panel "Firms and Liquidity after COVID" (online, 16 Jul 2020)
- 2018: Keynote, 8th CInSt Banking Workshop, Moscow (12 Oct 2018)
- 2018: Lunch panel, German Banking Association, Brussels (16 May 2018)
- 2016: Workshop in Banking Regulation, European Parliament (1 Dec 2016); ZEW Lunch Debate "Capital Markets Union", Brussels (15 Jun 2016)
- 2015: EUI and Brevan Howard Centre, panel "The new financial architecture in the Eurozone", Florence (23 Apr 2015); International Atlantic Economic Society, Milan (14 Mar 2015)
- 2014: Keynote, South African Reserve Bank / ERSA Financial Economics Workshop, Pretoria (27 Nov 2014); CIRSF and Banco de Portugal, Lisbon (Jun 2014)
- 2012: Institut du Bosphore, IVth Annual Seminar, panel "Recovery from Economic Crisis", Istanbul (Nov 2012)
For organisers
Short bio (60 words). Sascha Steffen is the DWS Senior Chair in Finance and Professor of Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Director of the Centre for European Transformation and a member of the ESRB Advisory Scientific Committee. His research on private credit, nonbank lending and leveraged loans appears in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. He publishes the Private Credit Radar.
Name on programmes. Prof. Dr. Sascha Steffen. Affiliation. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; Centre for European Transformation.
Formats. Keynote (25–40 min), fireside, panel, closed-door session for boards and investment committees (90 min, under the Chatham House rule).
Languages. English, German.
