A New Brand of Uncertainty? — PE Pathways Podcast
Investing Charity and Foundation Assets in Turbulent Times With Jennifer Nelson
Driven by Data: Auto Finance Trends Uncovered - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Sports
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 47 - Fireside Chat With Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Makes it a Securities Offering?
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 34 - A Conversation With Jesse Eisinger, Author of 'The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives'
Navigating Facility Relocation: Legal and Practical Considerations — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 29 - A Global Perspective on the Economic Responses to COVID-19
The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
La Financiación de Proyectos de Infraestructura
Breaking (Down) the Debt Ceiling
Current Landscape of Cryptocurrency Regulation and Enforcement - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Private Equity Perspectives: Episode Three – Interest Rates and PE Deals
Private Equity Perspectives: Episode Two – The Shifting Market for Buyers
Top Employment Law Considerations for Startups, with Ashley K Pittman
Podcast: DeFi and Tax: How are digital currencies treated by the IRS? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 47]
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the first major piece of cryptocurrency legislation, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (“GENIUS Act”). The legislation, which creates a...more
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act), legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. ...more
Silicon Valley is built on the promise of innovation, but for the better part of the past three years, the innovation economy has been in a coma. It all started with runaway inflation triggering the biggest hike in the price...more
With a focus on pragmatic and risk-based oversight, new leadership at the Federal Reserve signals a shift in the regulatory landscape for U.S. banks. Earlier this month, the Senate confirmed Federal Reserve Governor Michelle...more
Lender confidence in the US economy’s performance over the next six months is waning due to concerns over the impacts of tariff uncertainty and the possibility of a recession. Meanwhile, lenders believe the Fed will cut...more
“The uncertainty arising out of the Trump administration’s first 100 days shock and awe campaign has led to an unexpected flight from the US dollar despite its traditional role as a safe haven asset. While the dollar’s status...more
In this episode of PE Pathways, Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Tricia McNeill and Jonathan Homer delve into the current state and trends in the debt and lending markets, particularly as they impact private equity sponsors....more
In March 2025, the Fed released the Senior Credit Officer Opinion Survey on Dealer Financing Terms, revealing that credit terms in securities financing and over-the-counter derivatives markets remained largely unchanged...more
1. Factors with Strongest Potential to Affect Near-Term Economy Respondents were asked, over the next six months, which two factors had the strongest potential to affect the economy. Even though the 2024 election is in the...more
On March 7, Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell delivered his prepared remarks at an event regarding the current economic outlook and U.S. monetary policy. Powell highlighted, despite any uncertainty, the U.S. economy was performing...more
What’s the deal with inflation and interest rates? Inflation has been, unfortunately, a hot topic as of late. In the wake of COVID-19, inflation has caused rising prices and unpredictable market conditions that affect...more
Welcome to this edition of Credit Conditions, a quarterly publication from McDermott Will & Emery that analyzes recent debt market trends. The fourth quarter of 2024 marked a pivotal moment in the debt market, as the...more
The political adventure in self-abuse that we call an election is now well behind us. I planned to write this commentary last November, hence the “Just” in the title. My inability to even assay an answer to that question...more
The yield curve has long been a closely watched indicator of economic health. When the yield curve inverts, meaning short-term interest rates exceed long-term rates, it is often seen as a harbinger of an impending recession....more
In a highly anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut on September 18, reducing rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75-5%. This is the first rate cut in four years after interest rates hit a...more
When federal agencies review bank mergers, the competition issues typically relate to the number and location of physical branches and the extent of any overlap in the areas served. By contrast, the proposed $35 billion...more
2023 and the start of 2024 presented challenging economic conditions to the market, with debt costs at a historic high. Following a series of increases over the last two years, the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate is...more
May 8, 2024- U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.J.Res. 109, a Congressional Review Act resolution that would overturn accounting guidance...more
Since 1960, Congress has raised, revised or extended the statutory debt ceiling 79 times. The United States reached its debt ceiling in January 2023, prompting a congressional showdown and sparking fears of extreme market...more
Last Friday, the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) released reports evaluating their supervision of the failed Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Signature Bank (“Signature”),...more
Last year’s cryptocurrency market crash a/k/a “the crypto winter” did not cause trembles in the U.S. economy, but it caused enormous losses to its investors. The near collapse of this decentralized currency market resulted in...more
Market Overview - Q2 2022 - Downturn in Credit Markets: In its continued effort to combat rising inflation, the Federal Reserve Bank raised its benchmark interest rate in each of March, May, June and July of this year by...more
There is a magazine for everything including family law and today I watched a brief video published in late May by Family Lawyer Magazine. The guest interviewed was Jay Fishman of Financial Research, a business valuation...more
The last week has seen a number of announcements or statements from financial regulators calling for more oversight of crypto-assets, particularly stablecoins. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard gave a speech,...more
Economic Downturn? The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announced last week that it would raise the Fed’s baseline interest rate by 0.75 percentage points, the largest such increase since 1994. ...more