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Lending Climate in America – 2nd Quarter 2025 Survey

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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

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Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast

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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

McDermott Will & Schulte

Credit Conditions | Q4 2024

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

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What the Yield Curve Inversion and the Sahm Rule Signal: Key Implications for Company Valuations

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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

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Why the Capital One-Discover Merger Makes Sense

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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

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Trends in a “Pray and Delay” Economy

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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

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FRB, FDIC and GAO Release Reports Reviewing Supervision of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Regulators in Multiple Jurisdictions Call for More Oversight of Crypto-Assets and Stablecoins

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

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Financial Daily Dose 3.18.2021 | Top Story: Fed Commits to Near-Zero Rates Despite Improving Economy

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The latest and greatest from Fed Chair Powell as the Fed’s March Open Markets Committee meeting wrapped yesterday, including a markets-pleasing assurance that better-than-expected economic growth wasn’t enough to push the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.12.2020 | Top Story: Court Rules Apple Doesn’t Have to Offer Fortnite in App Store

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Big Friday win for Apple in its ongoing battle with Epic Games, as N.D. Cal. Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Cook & Co. didn’t “need to reinstate the popular video game Fortnite in its App Store,” a blow to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.23.2020 | Top Story: Fed Chair Calls for More Covid-Related Stimulus From Congress

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The latest from Fed Chair Powell and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s first of several days on the Hill, including their take that the economy is improving but that continued fiscal support—from the Fed and from Congress—was...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.15.2020 | Top Story: Reopening-Related COVID Surge Pauses Recent Market Rally

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Rising infection rates around the U.S. and the globe are worrying markets, as fear of a second wave of cases linked with the reopening of the economy freaks out traders....more

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Coronavirus and the Next Possible Financial Crisis: Corporate Debt

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As the world grapples with the health threat posed by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the secondary threats of the coronavirus—including economic and financial consequences—have come into clear view....more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.16.2020 | Top Story: U.S. Stocks Continue to Tumble Amid COVID-19

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U.S. stocks continue to tumble, sinking by “8.1% at the open, triggering a 15-minute trading halt;” “Brent crude sank below $30 a barrel;” treasuries surged despite major moves from the Federal Reserve; and market sentiment...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.25.2020 | Top Story: Markets Plummet as Fears of Coronavirus Epidemic Spread to Europe

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Wall Street apparently got together and decided that Monday was the day to start paying attention to the coronavirus for real. In the form of a massive selloff that left the Dow off more than 1000 points for its worst finish...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.18.2019 | Top Story: Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Boards Agree to $50 Billion Merger

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Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more

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Federal Reserve Board Releases Semiannual Financial Stability Report

On Nov. 15, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the “Board”) released its semiannual Financial Stability Report. The report presents the Board’s current assessment of the resilience of the U.S. financial...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.29.2019 | Top Story: South Korea High Court Could Send Samsung Heir Back to Jail

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A ruling this morning from South Korea’s top court means that Samsung’s de facto leader, its vice chair and chaebol heir Lee Jae-yong, could be heading back behind bars. The high court found that a lower appeals court “had...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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New York has sued Exxon Mobile over its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholder the “expected risk of climate change to its business”—behavior that the state asserts amounts to a “’longstanding fraudulent scheme’ to...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Less than a day after the Journal reported that CBS and the Redstones are nearing a deal to resolve their many differences, we’ve learned that CBS chief Les Moonves—facing an investigation into alleged sexual harassment...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - Class Action Against Lending Club and WebBank Headed to Defeat - On Monday, January 31, 2017, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York granted a motion to...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - Prohibition on Dealing or Investing in Industrial or Commercial Metals - On January 3, 2017, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC") finalized a rule that...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Financial Industry Developments - Agencies Issue Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Standards - On October 19, 2016, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance...more

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