FEATURED TOPIC
Navigating the Private Credit Landscape: Trends, Opportunities, and Risks
AIR DATE
November 24, 2025 – 12:00 PM
DISCUSSION HIGHLIGHTS
Join us for our next Monday Minute Chat as we explore the evolution of global credit since the Global Financial Crisis and the unique opportunities emerging in private credit. We’ll discuss why private credit is gaining traction in Canada, examine current trends and deal activity, and highlight the benefits of investing across the credit spectrum. The session will also cover key market risks and offer insights into where the private credit market may be headed next.
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GINO DI CENSO, CFA
Vice-President, Fixed Income | CIBC Asset Management
Gino Di Censo is Vice President, Fixed Income at CIBC Asset Management. In his role, he helps develop investment strategies, insights and research, and is instrumental in ensuring the firm’s fixed income suite of solutions is designed to fulfill clients’ current and future needs.
Prior to joining CIBC Asset Management in 2025, Mr. Di Censo was Director, Investment Consulting at Ekler, specializing in fixed income and private debt manager research as well as institutional portfolio consultation. He began his career in financial services in 2009.
Mr. Di Censo holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Human Biology from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration from Concordia University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Toronto.
SRIRAM VEDULA
Director, Private Debt | BCI
Sriram Vedula is a Senior Principal in the Private Credit Fund, within BCI. In this capacity, Sriram makes investment decisions that lead to the deployment of capital into direct lending and syndicated loan opportunities across sectors and geographies. Earlier in his career, Sriram was an experienced and highly regarded investment banker with 17+ years of domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate finance experience. Through his investment banking career, Sriram led the execution of several landmark M&A, Equity and High Yield Debt transactions and has built an extensive network of corporate clients, institutional investors and family offices.
Prior to BCI, Sriram was a Director, Investment Banking, Global Energy, with Credit Suisse in Calgary. In this capacity he covered Credit Suisse’s Canadian E&P clients and helped grow the platform into one of the top two global investment banks in the city. Prior to Credit Suisse, Sriram was a Vice President in TD Securities’ Investment Banking, Global Energy group in Calgary. Prior to moving to Calgary in 2009, Sriram was an Investment Banking Associate, Latin America coverage group, with Deutsche Bank in New York.
Sriram has an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he was the recipient of the Director’s Fellow Scholarship, and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Andhra University in India.
