Munich, Frankfurt, Zurich, 19 July 2018. New record with 46 LBO financings in the first half of 2018. Alternative financiers are continuing to live through a success story in 2018. The latest MidCapMonitor prepared by the investment bank GCA Altium, which regularly analyses leveraged buyout finance transactions with a credit volume of between EUR 20 million and EUR 500 million, recorded a 48 percent share of debt funds in the LBO market in the first half of 2018.