The Fund Finance Association is excited to announce the FFA University program which will be held virtually this year on the 20 & 21st of March 2024. This version of FFA University is designed for bankers and lawyers transacting under Asia/Pacific law.
Investec’s second instalment of the ‘Sustainability in the mid-market: Ambition to Action’ report conducted in partnership with the Financial Times is out now, which features a private equity focused section on how corporates view ESG.
The report finds that companies that embrace ESG for strategic long-term benefits are able to differentiate themselves, attract capital and create value over the long term. Get the latest insights now by clicking here.
As we kick off 2024, the focus on the unavailability of certain benchmarks continues on. To refresh, we have already seen the benchmark for US Dollars generally replaced with the Secured Overnight Financing rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Sterling replaced with the Sterling Overnight Index Average as administered by the Bank of England and Swiss Francs replaced with the Swiss Average Rate Overnight as administered by the SIX Swiss Exchange AG.
Looking ahead, we expect to see the cessation of additional benchmarks including, but not limited to, the Canadian Dollar Offered Rate and Singapore Interbank Offered Rates.
Listen now! Cadwalader's Wes Misson speaks with the Global Legal Insights publisher James Strode to introduce the latest edition of GLI - Fund Finance (aka the “Pink Book”) and the year ahead for the fund finance industry.
Listen to the full interview here.
Cadwalader Fund Finance partners have contributed to the just-released 2024 edition of Fund Finance 2024 (aka the “Pink Book”), the leading legal treatise for the fund finance industry, published by Global Legal Group.
As part of Global Legal Insight's launch of the 2024 edition of the “Pink Book,” publisher James Strode sat down for a video interview with Terry Hatton of MUFG and the FFA, available here.
For the first podcast of 2024 from We Talk Banking and Finance with Walkers, Tom Speller, Managing Director and Head of European Funds at KBRA, takes some time out to speak with Zoë Hallam and Julia Keppe, co-heads of the Walkers' Channel Islands fund finance practice.
ING Fund Finance is hiring a Vice President – Senior Fund Finance Professional in Luxembourg. This is an exciting opportunity within Fund Finance where the successful candidate will have primary responsibilities for origination, execution and portfolio management. Candidates can view the job posting here and should contact Crystal Junyuan for more information.