ABF Journal illustrator Jerry Gonzalez provides his take on a Bloomberg report finding that, five years after the Lehman collapse, Dodd-Frank and new international capital rules haven’t made the U.S. banking system safe enough or kept banks from being too big to fail.
The intricacies involved in the Orchard Supply bankruptcy provide guidance to debtors and creditors about the need to balance the competing interest of lenders, purchasers and stakeholders when it comes to debtor-in-possession financing.
Making the Chapter 7 trustee accountable to unsecured creditors will instill more confidence in the post-bankruptcy process where unsecured creditors are often left with the perception that bankruptcy courts operate solely for the benefit of professionals. Jeffrey Wurst and Michael Amato, both of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, say that by making the trustee more accountable, the process will also move at a quicker pace.
F.N.B. Capital Partners’ Joseph Bute and Tyson Smith explain the rationale behind the formation of an SBIC and how partnering with an SBIC fund offers asset-based lenders a way to provide their customers with cash-flow financing beyond the underlying collateral.
Lenders need not panic when dealing with customers facing a federal tax liability. As Jason Peckham explains, situations involving the IRS often can be resolved by negotiating a reasonable repayment arrangement.
In April 2013, Provident New York Bancorp and Sterling Bancorp announced they were to merge in a transaction valued at $344 million. As Sterling’s CFO Howard Applebaum explains to ABF Journal contributing editor Howard Brod Brownstein, the ultimate goal of the union is to expand product offerings, footprint and client base — while maintaining the high level of customer service for which both banks are known.
Heading Chase’s ABL unit for nearly 12 years, John Goldthorpe now has the equipment finance group under his wing and is leading his team in creating a strategic dialogue between the two businesses in order to serve as a comprehensive resource for their clients’ growth plans.
Workout officers gained essential wisdom during the Great Recession and previous down cycles; now they hold a wealth of valuable information for internal constituents and portfolio borrowers.
Michael McGrail, managing director of Tiger Group, says the ABL sector has enjoyed a market in which appraisals continue to be safe and accurate, in good times and bad.
Trimingham’s Hugh Larrett-Smith traces our asset-based lending roots back to the late 1800s and early 1900s when Paul Warburg was a transatlantic ABL “colossus.” Since then he sees an increasing willingness amongst UK and some European participants to work together towards the dream of achieving a true Pan-European syndicated loan market.