finance continues to grow in Central Europe, alternative to more traditional funding sources. Local players such as Accession Capital Partners, which sentiment around debt availability for a decade. funds, are joined by global institutions such as Ares 51% expect debt availability to increase, up from with flexibility when funding leveraged transactions. respondents expecting liquidity to decline, from 7% growing, even for businesses based in countries with sovereign currencies, and this helps attract lenders For this period, I expect the availability of debt finance to: