Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Samsung Life, Samsung F&M Insurance, & Samsung Securities - Exposure to Blackstone's Private Credit?

Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung F&M Plan to Sell 1.5 Trillion Won Worth of Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics: Better Than Expected Preliminary Results in 1Q 2026

Reading Nvidia Through the Stack: Dell and CoreWeave Show Deployment Still Scaling

CoreWeave’s AI Expansion Is Being Financed Forward

NVIDIA Meets the Bar; Working Capital Remains Elevated

Nvidia: All Good. Consensus Will Keep Revising Up, Stock Is Getting Cheaper – but Patience Required

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities, Mint Finance

Raghav Vashisht

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

United states Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The AI boom is widely framed as a hyperscaler capex story. But a growing share of the infra buildout is financed through private credit markets sitting largely outside public scrutiny.</li>
<li>Early warning signs are emerging: private credit defaults (in general) are rising and banks are tightening leverage against their collateral.</li>
<li>The first pressure point in the case of financial conditions deteriorating would be this very  infrastructure layer, increasing uncertainty as regards hyperscaler capex ambitions as well.</li>
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The AI boom is widely framed as a hyperscaler capex story. But a growing share of the infra buildout is financed through private credit markets sitting largely outside public scrutiny.
Early warning signs are emerging: private credit defaults (in general) are rising and banks are tightening leverage against their collateral.
The first pressure point in the case of financial conditions deteriorating would be this very  infrastructure layer, increasing uncertainty as regards hyperscaler capex ambitions as well.


Beyond Chips and Capex: Private Credit in the AI Ecosystem