Finance Law and Banking Law

Loan origination in the non-banking sector has become a focus of regulators as lending by that sector has grown since the global financial crisis.

Data exfiltration via cyberattack is top-of-mind for financial services firms. Regulatory attention is primarily focused on the risk of impersonation to misappropriate funds, but there are two other angles firms would do well to consider: data exfiltration by a malicious insider, and subsequent use of that data in investment fraud.

Asset-based lending (ABL) and adjacent areas of asset-focused finance continually shift towards the center ground of mainstream corporate finance. Flexibility, underpinned by collateral-driven risk, is in demand.