Finance Updates – Page 7 – Finance Updates

HMC SAFI Sets Sights on Private Credit: Launching $150M Funds with RAD Legal Backing

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas is advising HM...

The vehicles are private (non-retail) funds a...

The launch builds on HMC SAFI’s earlier publi...

The deal reflects a broader push to deepen Pe...

How Recent Corporate Fraud in Small-and Mid-Size Firms Risks Exposing Credit Markets

Global Risk Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

A wave of smaller-company blowups tied to sus...

Bankruptcies at First Brands and Tricolor hig...

U.S. and U.K. regulators are treating these c...

Lenders and investors are tightening underwri...

U.S. Bancorp Shows Strength in Fee Income and Capital—but Faces Margin & Regulatory Stress

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

U.S. Bancorp posted strong Q3 2025 profitabil...

Fee income is driving diversification, with p...

Net interest income and margin are pressured ...

Regulatory easing (FDIC merger and compliance...

Surging Fed Repo Usage Removes Policy Caps — What It Means for Bank Liquidity & Risk

Americas Policy Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The New York Fed’s Standing Repo Facility usa...

DCReport alleges the Fed has quietly funneled...

Officials frame the increased repo use as a r...

The pattern of uncapped facilities, rising us...

How Smart Stores & Cashless Payments Are Transforming Unattended Retail

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Unattended retail is shifting from low-value ...

Smart stores and micro-markets drive larger b...

Cashless and especially contactless payments ...

Key challenges and opportunities center on ma...

Why Payments Technology in 2025 Is Your Competitive Edge: Real-Time Pay, Fraud & Trust

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

In 2025, payments tech like automation, virtu...

Real-time, multi-rail payments and mature emb...

Fraud prevention evolved into strategic fraud...

These shifts raise urgent questions around AI...

How Clear Street’s Cloud-Native Infrastructure Is Reinventing Capital Markets Post-Trade

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Clear Street is a non-bank prime broker found...

Its real-time, event-driven platform targets ...

The firm claims to process about 2.5% of U.S....

Scaling this model faces challenges including...

How FinTech Must Rebuild Trust Amid Rising Breaches, Fraud & Weak Transparency

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The article proposes a research framework on ...

Rising cybersecurity threats, including costl...

Consumers show a widening trust gap, driven b...

Regulatory developments such as open banking ...

HoldCo’s Push in COLB: Governance, Growth & the Case for a Big Buyback

Americas Firms Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

HoldCo Asset Management has built a large $14...

COLB’s post–Pacific Premier acquisition resul...

Despite these operational gains, COLB’s share...

HoldCo is taking a watchful activist stance—f...

OceanFirst-Flushing Deal: $23B Regional Bank Formed with Strong 2027 EPS Growth

Americas M&A Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

OceanFirst and Flushing will merge in an all-...

The combined bank is targeting 2027 metrics o...

The transaction relies on realizing cost syne...

Key risks center on regulatory and shareholde...