'Big Short' Legend Steve Eisman Says SoFi's Private Credit Problems Could Be 'Potentially A Disaster'

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Steve Eisman, the fund manager from The Big Short, says a credit cycle is emerging and SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) may be sitting at the center of it. “There is no doubt in my mind that a credit ...

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That spread is SoFi’s entire margin.\nWhen losses breach a preset level called the cumulative net loss trigger, SoFi stops getting paid. \nEisman cited Bloomberg data showing SoFi’s SCP 2025-1 securitization hit CNLs of 2.97% against a trigger of 2.60%. \nEverything now goes to securitization investors until they’re made whole. He added that the 2025-2 deal looks likely to breach next.\n“If securitization investors decide they no longer want SoFi paper, SoFi will not be able to lend.”\nShort-selling firm Muddy Waters Research, led by Carson Block, published a 28-page short report on SOFI on March 17 calling the company a “financial engineering treadmill” and alleging $312 million in unrecorded debt. \nSoFi fired back the same day, calling the report “factually inaccurate and misleading” and threatening legal action. \nCEO Anthony Noto bought $500,000 in shares in an attempt to reassure the market.\nMuddy Waters wasn’t impressed. \nIn a follow-up published Saturday titled “Eleven Questions, Zero Answers,” the firm said SoFi’s response “did not address a single factual claim” and noted Noto’s share purchase amounted to roughly 0.86% of the $58.3 million he and CFO Chris Lapointe have already extracted through prepaid variable forward contracts.\nSOFI is down roughly 35% year-to-date.\nEisman framed SoFi as one symptom of a broader private credit reckoning. The market has ballooned from $300 billion to $1.8 trillion in a decade, with 80% of direct lending funding private equity buyouts. \nHe called the structure circular: “In one part of the business, private equity buys companies, and in another part of the business, private equity lends money to itself to buy those companies.”\nApollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) co-president John Zito warned at a private UBS client event that software loans may recover only 20 to 40 cents on the dollar. \nThe remarks were intended to be off the record but were reported by the Wall Street Journal via audio recordings.\nPrediction market bettors are pricing the risk accordingly.\nPolymarket’s U.S. recession contract sits at 35%. 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