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California AB 2116: Licensing Requirements Extended To Small Business Commercial Financing Providers Including Factoring Companies; Unlicensed Agreements Are Unenforceable
California's Assembly Bill 2116 introduces sweeping changes to commercial financing regulation, requiring licenses for providers and brokers serving small businesses starting in 2028. The law establishes unprecedented enforceability consequences for unlicensed activity and extends licensing requirements to factoring companies for the first time, fundamentally reshaping the commercial finance landscape.
United States Finance
DLA Piper
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Financial Markets And Funds Quick Take | Issue 54
Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take delivers monthly insights on regulatory developments reshaping broker-dealer enforcement, prediction markets, derivatives frameworks, tax-efficient investing structures, and AI's expanding role in financial services. This edition examines FINRA's transparency reforms, the CFTC's new guardrails on mention markets, the maturation of insurance-dedicated separately managed accounts, and the FCA's evolving cryptoasset and non-financial misconduct regimes.
United States Finance
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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Dechert Files Comment Letter In Response To NAIC's Proposal For Multi-Collateral Structured Credit Investments
On October 2, 2026, Dechert submitted a comment letter to the NAIC's Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group on Agenda Item 2026-10, proposing amendments to SSAP No. 26 (Bonds) that introduce a self-liquidation test and an embedded Asset-Liability Management (ALM) risk test under the Principles-Based Bond Definition. This has to do with the treatment of Multi-Collateral Structured Credit Investments—although it could potentially sweep up a lot more.
United States Finance
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Dechert
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SEC Proposes Amendments To Expand Retail Access To Private Markets
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed significant amendments to expand retail investor access to private market strategies through regulated fund structures. These proposals would allow registered investment advisers to receive performance-based compensation from regulated funds and modernize the interval fund framework while permitting multiple share classes for closed-end funds and BDCs. Will these changes democratize access to private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital strategies
United States Finance
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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In-Transit Inventory and Electronic Bills of Lading: A Practical Guide for ABL Lenders
Asset-based lending against in-transit inventory presents unique legal challenges as lenders navigate UCC Article 7 requirements, negotiable documents of title, and the emerging landscape of electronic bills of lading. This analysis examines how ABL lenders can structure security interests to protect their position when goods are moving through the supply chain, from traditional paper documentation to modern electronic platforms.
United States Finance
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Mayer Brown
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Debt Capital Markets

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The Financing Problem Behind the AI Infrastructure Boom: What Lenders and Sponsors Need to Watch
As AI infrastructure spending surges toward $697 billion in 2026, hyperscalers and compute providers are increasingly turning to debt, structured financing, and GPU-backed collateral to fund expansion. While demand projections remain bullish, a critical timing gap is emerging between capital deployment and cash flow generation, creating significant risks for lenders, sponsors, and operators across the ecosystem.
United States Finance
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Riveron
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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

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Flipping The Switch: Protect Your Solar Lease Before The Power Flows
In California, solar operators leasing land for their projects face a critical risk: foreclosure by a junior lienholder could extinguish their lease and force premature project removal, potentially triggering defaults under revenue agreements. A simple yet often overlooked solution—recording a Memorandum of Lease—can protect the project from most foreclosures by establishing the lease's priority in the chain of title.
United States Real Estate
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Cox, Castle & Nicholson
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