Worldwide: Asset Finance

BNP Paribas is seeking a Vice President - Legal Counsel to serve on the Asset Finance & Securitization (“AFS”) Legal team.

As agricultural borrowers face tighter margins and reduced cash flow in 2026, Farm Credit lenders are increasingly turning to "bulge financing" - temporary credit extensions designed to bridge short-term liquidity gaps. This analysis explores how these 60-120 day facilities differ from traditional accordion structures and examines their strategic deployment through a real-world case study of discounted crop input financing.

Goodwin's Private Investment Funds team advised Ares Credit Secondaries funds in leading a $2.5 billion credit continuation vehicle sponsored by Arcmont Asset Management, marking the largest European credit continuation fund to date. The transaction involved acquiring a diversified portfolio of primarily first-lien senior secured loans from Arcmont's 2019 vintage Direct Lending Fund III, providing liquidity to existing limited partners while enabling continued exposure to the portfolio.

Like most ETFs, the buffer ETFs are registered with the SEC on Form N-1A as "open-end" investment companies, and they issue and redeem their shares at net asset value (NAV

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council ("FFIEC") alerted financial institutions to the potential impact that cyber-related sanctions may have on information technology, operations and compliance.

On October 10, 2018, the Financial Stability Board published a report entitled "Crypto-asset markets: Potential Channels for future financial stability," ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) Committee on Bank Supervision (CBS) just released its Bank Supervision Operating Plan for 2018 which outlines the OCC's supervision...

In a Progress Report reviewing implementation of IOSCO's 2014 client asset protection recommendations...

Up to this point, the regulators in charge of the Resolution Plan process have focused only on the mega banks and have left the second and third wave filers alone.