10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 26, 2025
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Private Civil Consumer Financial Services Litigation to Partially Fill CFPB Void - Part 1
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Innovation in Compliance: Strategic Compliance in Regulated Industries with Kerri Reuter
Unlocking the Secrets of Reverse Mortgages — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Everything You Want to Know About the CFPB as Things Stand Today, and Lots More - Part 2
Daily Compliance News: April 16, 2025, The Fired by AI Edition
The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Everything You Want to Know About the CFPB as Things Stand Today, and Lots More - Part 1
Dialing In: The TCPA and Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Debt and Lending Markets: Current Trends Impacting Private Equity Sponsors — PE Pathways Podcast
Innovations in Compliance: Data Collection & Cybersecurity with ModeOne’s Matt Rasmussen and Ryan Frye
Fintech Focus Podcast | Responding to a Cyber Attack – Key Considerations for GCs and CISOs
Daily Compliance News: April 4, 2025, The Tariffs on Penguins Edition
New York's Bold Move to Create a Mini CFPB — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Great Women in Compliance: Roundtable on The Future of Financial Crime Prevention
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Debate About The Need, If Any, For a Federal Charter for Non-Banks Engaged in the Payments Business
Early Days of the Trump Administration: Impact on the CFPB — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Future of Auto Dealership Compliance: A Conversation With Tom Kline — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Through the Crystal Ball: What's Next for Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Back when NAV was something that guided you to your chosen venue for the evening, the FFA conference in Miami (and earlier still, New York) was a slightly more 'NAV'igable event....more
Introduction - NAV facilities operate by taking a portfolio of assets owned by a borrower and selecting which assets within that portfolio a lender is willing to lend against. This pool of approved assets becomes the...more
A recent trend in continuation vehicles involves traditional private equity sponsors serving as the “lead investor” in lieu of, or in addition to, more traditional secondary buyers and institutional investors. This expansion...more
As most Fund Finance Friday readers probably already know, over the summer, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (“ILPA”) issued guidance for Limited Partners (“LPs”) and General Partners (“GPs”) around the use of...more
Welcome to IMpact: Investment Management News. In this regular bulletin, DLA Piper lawyers share their insights on key developments that are impacting the investment management industry....more
The Pine Cliffs Resort hosted the FFA’s 2024 Global Leadership Summit this week where key players and leaders from across the industry gathered to discuss macroeconomic, geopolitical, policy, legal, regulatory and other...more
Executive Summary - Over the last several years, a need has arisen in the fund finance market, which caters to private equity, venture capital, family offices, and other investment funds (“Funds”) and their sponsors, for...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Net Asset Value ("NAV") credit facilities are lending arrangements underwritten on the borrower’s portfolio of investments, where the amount available for borrowing is based on the value of such...more
Executive Summary - Net Asset Value (“NAV”) credit facilities are a tool that borrowers may use to access financing based on the value of their underlying investment portfolio. The users of these facilities are generally...more
This year is starting to feel a bit more normalized after the 2021-2022 record origination numbers followed by the 2023 market disruption. In many ways, Fund finance has passed the stress test and moved forward. What has 2024...more
Net Asset Value ("NAV") credit facilities are lending arrangements underwritten on the borrower’s portfolio of investments, where the amount available for borrowing is based on the value of such underlying portfolio...more
Coller Capital’s recently released Global Private Capital Barometer included a few notable takeaways for fund finance lenders that suggested the fundraising market could be broadening and capital circulation improving. Here...more
While the market for NAV financings—loans to funds supported by the net asset value of their portfolios—grew in 2023 and continues to rapidly evolve, a consensus has developed around what is sometimes referred to as a “Holdco...more
NAV loans are getting constant coverage in the press now. For those of us that spent years trying to direct focus to the potential of NAV lending, this is a welcome development. Admittedly, not all of the coverage is...more
NAV facilities come in all shapes and sizes and, unlike subscription facilities, there is no standardised collateral package for these kinds of transactions. In the European market, many lenders - particularly investment...more
About a year ago, we published “Term Loan Solutions in Fund Finance,” which ended up being a popular article on Fund Finance Friday. Since then we have seen lenders, sponsors, law firms and rating agencies become more...more
Higher interest rates have rearranged the investment landscape with liquid products offering more attractive value while forward private market returns are somewhat uncertain in light of challenges facing valuations and the...more
Recallable capital is a hot topic these days in both subscription financing and NAV financing transactions, both at industry events and in the press. There has been a good deal of attention to this concept in the NAV market...more
It has been a common refrain in the fund finance industry that “hybrid” loan facilities (i.e., loans underwritten on the basis of both a fund’s investor capital commitments and its investment portfolio) are constantly talked...more
In this article we look at the lender's right to challenge a sponsor’s valuation of their investments in the context of a NAV-backed financing. This right to challenge is a relatively recent development in these transactions,...more
NAV financing, continuation funds, public pension funds and their increased private equity allocations, and the commercial real estate outlook – here’s what we’re reading....more
In the private equity secondaries market, financing is often used to facilitate the purchase of portfolios of interests in private equity funds. These transactions require lenders to underwrite the value of assets that the...more
We reported in last week’s edition of Fund Finance Friday on some of the significant themes and topics at the FFA 7th Annual European Fund Finance Symposium....more
Guaranties are a common feature in fund finance transactions. Particularly in NAV loans, upstream and affiliate (or “sideways”) guaranties are used. Below we discuss some of the context for the use of these types of...more
During this session, Partner Anh Lee moderated a panel that provided key insights on current fund financing trends, including the latest in net asset value (NAV) facilities....more