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New Delhi [India], September 18: Private credit has moved from the margins of India’s funding conversation into the boardroom. We need to examine why India’s growing private-credit market, GCC investor interest and Dubai-India capital flows require borrowers to look beyond the interest rate and prepare for the full discipline of repayment. An EY update released in August recorded US$3.5 billion of private-credit investments in the first half of 2026 across 102 tracked transactions above US$10 million. Domestic funds accounted for 74% of deal value and about 79% of deal volume. The figures do not describe every form of debt raised in India, but they show how quickly alternative financing, private capital and structured credit have become part of the mainstream India funding conversation, including for Dubai-based and GCC investors…
