Finance Updates – Page 3 – Finance Updates

Wholesale Financial Lines Surge Amid Macroeconomic Stress: Strategies for Insurers

Rising corporate distress and bankruptcy risk...

Carriers are responding by launching or expan...

Surplus lines growth is led by liability fina...

Key concerns are whether capacity, pricing di...

Flyhomes Ends Brokerage to Scale “Buy Before You Sell” via Wholesale Lending Channels

Americas Firms Nondepository Credit Intermediation

Flyhomes will exit real estate brokerage by e...

The company is scaling its “Buy Before You Se...

Flyhomes raised $15 million and secured a $20...

It sold its AI home-search portal and enginee...

New York’s Warehouse Safety Law Takes Effect June 2025; Federal Enforcement Still Proposed

Americas Policy Warehousing and Storage

Federal lawmakers have reintroduced the Wareh...

The federal proposal would require written qu...

New York’s rules require ergonomics evaluatio...

High warehouse injury rates—including elevate...

U.S. Wholesale Inventories Slip as Inventory-to-Sales Ratio Hits Decade Low

Americas Markets Wholesale Trade

U.S. wholesale inventories fell 0.5% in Decem...

Wholesale sales rose 1.0%, pushing the invent...

The decline was broad, led by durables (−0.6%...

Lower inventories weighed on Q4 2024 GDP, con...

What’s Moving U.S. Bond Markets Now: Yields, Inflation & Geopolitics

Americas Markets Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Treasury yields jumped (10-year ~4.29%, 30-ye...

A renewed “Sell America” wave is emerging as ...

Trump’s escalating tariff threats against Eur...

Markets are also pricing concern over Federal...

EU-US Trade Clash & Greenland Calm: Markets Rebound Amid Rising Risk

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

U.S. stocks rebounded after Trump said he wou...

EU lawmakers suspended ratification of an EU–...

Treasury yields stayed elevated near 4.28% an...

Earnings drove dispersion, with United Airlin...

AIG & CVC Ink $3.5B Deal for Credit Strategies & PE Secondaries

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

AIG committed up to $3.5 billion to a strateg...

The credit mandate gives AIG access to tailor...

The secondaries vehicle makes AIG a cornersto...

The deal underscores insurers shift toward pr...

How Saks Global’s Debt, Amazon Deal, and Vendor Issues Are Driving Its Bankruptcy

Americas Firms Department Stores

Saks Global filed for Chapter 11 in January 2...

Amazon, which put in $475M of preferred equit...

The company secured $1.75B in DIP financing t...

Leadership turnover and strained vendor relat...

Deutsche Bank Strengthens Long-Dated Funding Amid Capital Flow Risks & Valuation Debate

Europe Firms Depository Credit Intermediation

Deutsche Bank has ramped issuance of long-dat...

DB’s FX chief George Saravelos warns U.S.-Eur...

Management targets improving 2025 profitabili...

Private-banking hires such as Kouroche Achtar...

Clear Street’s IPO: Fintech Platform Growth Meets Valuation & Timing Challenges

Americas Firms Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

Clear Street Group filed an S-1 to list on Na...

The capital markets platform reported $463.6M...

Its cloud-native stack integrates trading, cl...

Key watch items include $17.2B client balance...