“What gives with the banks?” questions Karen Shaw Petrou, a managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics. In prepared remarks to the Loan Syndications and Trading Association’s 19th annual conference today, Petrou expresses concerns that lending to small and mid-market businesses – once a key anchor of a bank’s responsibility – might be fading away from the bank’s to do list, particularly when the going gets tough. Bank-centric rules redefining commercial lending “Banks are officially called commercial banks because of the critical nature of lending to small, medium, and large companies, but recent market trends accelerated by bank-centric rules are redefining…
Bank Commercial Lending An Endangered Species?
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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