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Private Credit’s AI Woes Not Systemic, Brookfield’s Flatt Says

Brookfield Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt on Feb. 25.

Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg

The risk of AI disruption upending private credit poses little threat to the wider financial system or the global economy, according to Brookfield Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Bruce Flatt.

While markets have been roiled by concerns about private credit exposure to software businesses that could be vulnerable to new technology, fear that could spread to a wider financial crisis are overblown, Flatt said in a Bloomberg Television interview Wednesday.