The Italian private debt market in 2021 experienced a real boom, reaching over 26 billion euros of investments, versus just 13.1 billion euros of transactions in 2020 (see here the BeBeez Report on Private Debt and Direct lending 2020), when the market size had increased already from just under 12.2 billion euros in 2019 (see here BeBeez's report on Private Debt and Direct lending 2019). And if we also consider the purchases of corporate non-performing exposures, then, the account even exceeds 29 billion euros (see here the NPL Report and other 2021 non-performing loans). The data emerges from BeBeez Private Data, the Italian database of private capital by BeBeez.
The growth of the private debt market was driven above all by bonds over 1