This past spring, amidst a worsening credit crunch, Blackstone approached a few regional banks to talk about buying assets and loans. Around the same time, Bain Capital Credit financed Legacy, a newly launched middle-market corporate lender. And Apollo revealed a veritable assembly line of origination platforms set up to capture loan segments from which banks have turned away.

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