More and more, private equity firms looking to finance big leveraged buyouts are cutting out the Wall Street banks, and borrowing money from each other or from direct lenders.

These loans often come from the credit arms of private equity firms, or from standalone direct lending funds. The appeal of this financing for buyouts is the process is easier and sometimes lenders will offer more debt. But for banks, the transactions threaten one of the most profitable businesses on Wall Street: leveraged finance, where groups of banks arrange loans and junk bonds to fund private equity deals.

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Reducing CEO Turnover and Optimizing Returns in Private Equity 

Venture capital money is flooding the human resources space as employers seek new ways to recruit, hire and retain their workforces.

Human resource technologies — which can run the gamut from background checks to benefits and everything in between — already has seen nearly $3.6 billion in venture funding for 260 deals this year, according to Crunchbase data. That dollar amount already surpasses all of last year, which witnessed not even $2.2 billion invested in 500 funding deals.

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