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Credit Intelligence Platform Comparison

Is your credit platform holding you back?

Octus: The sharper edge in sub-investment grade credit intelligence

Credit intelligence from Octus is unmatched in its thoroughness, blending expert financial and legal analysis with deep market expertise and real-time reporting from our financial journalists. It’s the edge that matters in a market that is complex, fast-moving and risky.

The Difference Is Clear

Why top credit teams choose Octus over other platforms

Not all credit intelligence platforms are built the same. While others rely on AI aggregation and junior analysts, Octus combines expert financial and legal analysis, real-time journalism, and 13+ years of proprietary data — covering the credit lifecycle from new issue to bankruptcy. 

From verified source documentation and covenant expertise to seamless API delivery, it’s the depth your deals demand.

“Between up to date reporting, breaking news, earnings reports/recaps for all relevant companies, growing AI summary usage, and Octus fundamentals for private companies, it's really the one stop shop for all things leveraged credit.”

Bulge Bracket Bank

Insights and infrastructure you can trust

The one source for the market’s entire credit picture

Master credit market complexity in seconds. With CreditAI by Octus® you’re no longer guessing in the dark.

Octus  provides the deep-sourced credit intelligence you need to navigate public and private credit situations. Every insight is backed by clear citations, giving you the conviction to move while others are still searching.

For any lawyers in restructuring, debt finance, special situations or the like, Octus is essential to everyday practice given the breadth of information, timely updates, and plethora of sources for documents and analysis. – Gibson Dunn

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Security and confidentiality, always

The average organization takes 204 days to identify a data breach. Our security philosophy ensures that you, and all your data, are secure and compliant.

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Don’t just manage your debt documents, master them.

Complete control over every document, every user and every deal.

 FinDoxTM delivers the oversight and tracking you need to navigate the debt markets with zero friction, airtight controls and total confidence.

Octus makes portfolio management seamless. It allows us to focus on decision-making rather than spending unnecessary time on data collection or processing. – Corey Geis, Investcorp

Case Study: Investcorp Credit Selection

Technology that operates at the speed of the credit market

Octus fuses human expertise, machine intelligence and superior infrastructure to drive you and your business forward

Octus has the best coverage… I find the Octus intel and AI features to be most helpful during business development. – Ankura

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Driving decisive action for over a decade

Since 2013, the credit market has relied on Octus for deep, accurate and experience-informed news, data and analysis.

13+

Years of global bankruptcy coverage

9.3M+

Deal documents, going back 9+ years across 25k issuers and 53k deals

500+

Combined years of legal experience across restructuring, covenants and leveraged finance

Markets & Solutions

Global professionals rely on Octus to deliver the proprietary data and actionable intelligence that informs and accelerates their most critical decisions.

Private Credit

Dive into double the competition’s private credit deal data to keep outpacing the market.

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CLO Investor

See what others miss. Expose hidden CLO risks and capture opportunities with granular data and elite analytics.

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Opportunistic Credit

The definitive vantage point for distressed debt. Every signal, every stress point, one source.

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Multi-Strategy

Everything you need from issuance to LME. Anticipate catalysts, compare deal structures and act before markets reprice.

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Credit Trading

Level the field. Whether trading, advising, or investing, equip your team with the intel to lead the conversation.

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Leveraged Finance

Don’t just support transactions—drive them. Use the market’s deepest data to outpace the competition from pitch to pricing.

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Debt Origination

Own the lead with first-to-market intel and relationships built to put you ahead of the competition.

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Workout

Spot the stress before it breaks. Stay miles ahead of the risk curve and optimize your exit while others are still assessing the damage.

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Global Law Firm

Don’t just advise—command the facts. Access the collective intelligence of 250+ global experts to lead on performing, stressed, and distressed credits.

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Restructuring

Use proprietary, up-to-the-minute intel on distressed credits, LMEs, and active restructurings to sharpen your advice, outmaneuver the room, and win the next mandate.

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Banking & Finance

Jump on new opportunities, issuances and deals with first-to-market insights on public and private borrowers.

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Restructuring

Use real-time alerts and deep intelligence on distressed credits and LMEs to sharpen your pitch, drive efficiency, and dictate the exit while others are still getting up to speed.

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Debt Advisory

From LBOs to LMEs, navigate the high-stakes terrain with critical market insights. Uncover opportunities, mitigate risks and secure mandates.

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Octus' industry leading financial and legal analysis connects the dots for you, delivering uncompromising, actionable intelligence to fuel critical decision-making.

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Octus CLO Whitepaper 2025

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Octus: Where credit becomes clear

Over a decade in the making, combining the credit industry’s most trusted intelligence and proprietary data with embedded workflow tools, today, Octus is the essential credit platform for those who can’t afford to be second.

Octus is trusted by:

  • 100% of the Bulge Bracket Banks
  • 100% of the Top 10 asset managers and CLO managers
  • 90% of AM Law 50 Firms
  • 100% of the Magic Circle

The information you need. Where you need it. Before you know you need it.

In your deal rooms

Access all your deal docs in one secure location, in perpetuity.

In the platform

Log in to a single platform where all your research and data live in one sharp, cohesive line of sight.

In your inbox

Receive real-time intelligence on the companies, sectors, and macro trends that define your territory—delivered instantly to your inbox.

In your internal systems

Bring the market leader home. Feed Octus coverage directly into your local systems via API or Snowflake. Analyze, act, and lead without ever leaving your workflow.

See for yourself

Octus lets you see “inside credit”; it gives clients the confidence they need to negotiate with the knowledge and power of the entire market behind them.