Webinar | July 14, 2025
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
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Insurance companies have been busily accessing the capital markets in 2024 and in 2025 with traditional debt offerings, as well as with hybrid capital and structured solutions, including P-CAPs and funding-agreement backed notes (FABNs) transactions. In fact, the volume of FABN
Last week, the US federal banking regulators proposed changes to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (“eSLR”) requirement for US global systemically important bank holding companies (“US GSIBs”). This proposal is intended to reduce the likelihood of the eSLR requirement being the binding capital constraint for US GSIBs and, thereby, enhance the ability of US GSIBs
Pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act, the Investor Advocate is required to file two reports annually with the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives, which include the mid-year Report on Objectives for the forthcoming fiscal year and end of year
Permanent capital vehicles are growing increasingly popular as a means of providing long-term exposure to illiquid assets such as private equity and private credit assets. Recent and anticipated regulatory reforms and evolving market trends have the potential to expand access to private markets and alternative assets, particularly for retail investors who previously were foreclosed from
On June 23, 2025, the House of Representatives (the “House”) passed seven bills relating to capital formation. As discussed in a previous post, these bills were reported to the House by the House Committee on Financial Services (the “Committee”).
The House passed H.R. 3394, the Fair Investment Opportunities for Professional Experts Act, by
At today’s Practising Law Institute’s SEC Speaks program, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Chair Paul Atkins shared his views on a wide range of topics. Chair Atkins touched on innovation at the SEC, FinHub and its role and, of course, crypto and the crypto markets.
Chair Atkins also spoke about financial innovation and specifically closed-end
June 17, 2025
Mayer Brown LLP, 14th Floor, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
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Join Carta and Mayer Brown for a discussion about the evolving landscape of private markets and the implications for retail access and regulatory reform.
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (the “Committee”) will meet on May 6, 2025 to consider the market impact and challenges associated with Regulation A.
Staff from the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, Office of Small Business Policy, and the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation
Our Convertible Bonds: An Issuer’s Guide is available to download. The guide has been updated to include a discussion relating to European and US issuers.
The convertible bond market has been active as companies refinance converts issued during the pandemic. Driven by a high interest rate environment and ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, companies issued over $86