The debt financing market has seen considerable growth due to a variety of factors.
• Over the past few years, the debt financing market has seen robust growth. Its projected growth from $21.12 billion in 2024 to $22.45 billion in 2025, marking a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3%, underscores this upward progression.
Factors such as economic expansion, globalization, entrepreneurship, real estate development, and governmental stimulus initiatives have been essential drivers of its growth in the historical period.
The debt financing market is expected to maintain its strong growth trajectory in upcoming years.
• The market size of debt financing is anticipated to witness robust expansion in the coming years. The growth is projected to reach $30.1 billion by 2029, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.6%.
Factors such as climate change initiatives, growth in the healthcare sector, renewable energy projects, governmental infrastructure expenditure and the expansion of global trade have contributed to the predicted growth during the forecast period. Key trends during this period are expected to include sustainable and green financing, low-interest rates coupled with monetary policies, lending platforms powered by technology, covenant-lite loan structures, and funding for innovation and research.
The anticipated progression of the debt financing market is likely to be powered by an increasingly large count of small businesses. Classifying small businesses usually involves identifying independently operated organizations, partnerships, or one-person operations having fewer staff and a considerably smaller annual revenue than larger corporations or standard size companies. Such businesses often benefit from debt financing, which allows them accessibility to necessary capital while preserving ownership rights. It supports their ambitions to develop, grow, and extend their reach whilst ensuring business control. As an illustration, the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy, an independent advocate for American small businesses, reported in August 2022 that the count of small businesses went up by 1.98%, escalating from 32,540,953 in 2021 to 33,185,550 in 2022. Additionally, small businesses prove crucial in employing 61.7 million Americans, accounting for 46.4% of all private sector workers. Hence, the prospective expansion of small businesses could be a significant driving factor for the debt financing market. Identifying a significant driver of the debt financing market comes in the form of escalating healthcare costs. This term includes expenses relating to healthcare requisites, covering medical bills, hardware, provisions, and medicine. As the expense related to healthcare-sphere climbs, medical debt subsequently follows, necessitating a rise in the demand for debt financing. Patients struggling with healthcare expenses often turn to debt financing as a financial safety net. The 2021–2030 National Health Expenditure (NHE) report, published in March 2022 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), foretells an average annual increase of 5.1% in the national health budget from 2021 through 2030, leading to approximately $6.8 trillion by the decade’s end. Moreover, it anticipates that Medicare spending is projected to rise yearly by 7.2%, while expecting Medicaid expenditure to have an annual increase of 5.6% during the same duration. Therefore, escalating healthcare costs could be a significant contributing factor to the growth of the debt financing market.
The debt financing market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Sources: Private, Public
2) By Type: Bank Loans, Bonds, Debenture, Bearer Bond, Other Types
3) By Duration: Short-Term, Long-Term
Subsegments:
1) By Private: Private Equity Firms, Venture Capital, Private Debt Funds
2) By Public: Public Bond markets, Government Loans, Publicly Issued Debentures
Leading firms in the debt financing market are concentrating on the development of cutting-edge technologies like eLoans solutions in order to offer dependable services to their clientele. The eLoans platform is a digital mechanism that permits qualified clients to secure liquidity for the operation of their commercial endeavors, thereby facilitating the management of unpaid loans through repayment functions. For example, in July 2023, Citigroup Inc., an investment banking corporation based in the U.S., unveiled its Trade and Working Capital eLoans solution for U.S. Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) clients. This provision is supplied by treasury and trade solutions (TTS) via the CitiDirect platform. The platform, designed to be scalable, facilitates international trade flows and allows clients to capture liquidity, oversee outstanding loans, and refine self-service reporting by utilizing automated alerts. This platform is intended to minimize manual interactions, enhance self-service reporting, and cater to the working capital requirements of CCB clients. The usage of Citi's digital stage for the eLoans product is complimentary and can assist clients in achieving more supervision and openness regarding loan financing.
Major companies operating in the debt financing market report are:
• JPMorgan Chase & Co
• Citigroup Inc.
• Bank of America Corporation
• Wells Fargo & Company
• Morgan Stanley
• HSBC Holdings PLC
• BNP Paribas SA
• Royal Bank of Canada
• The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
• ING Groep N.V.
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
• UBS Group AG
• Deutsche Bank AG
• The Bank of Nova Scotia
• Barclays PLC
• Societe Generale SA
• Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.
• Mizuho Financial Group Inc.
• BlackRock Inc.
• Credit Suisse AG
• The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
• Nomura Holdings Inc.
• Blackstone Inc.
• ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
• DNB Bank ASA
• Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
• Rothschild & Co SCA
• Evercore Inc.
• Lazard Ltd.
• Houlihan Lokey Inc.
North America was the largest region in the debt financing market in 2024. The regions covered in the debt financing market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa