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TRANSATLANTIC NEWS

30 Sep

EIB | European Commission and EIB Group launch Institutional Investors Pact to boost investment in tech scale-ups

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group launched today the European Institutional Investors Pact (EIIP) at the TechEU Equity Summit. The Pact is a new voluntary framework designed to channel more long-term institutional capital into Europe’s technology and scale-up ecosystem. Thirteen institutional investors have already expressed their intention to channel investments into Europe’s innovation and scale-up ecosystem, including through the €15 billion European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI) 2.0 and the €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund. President of the...

28 Sep

Chapter News, News

IMF | AI and the Future of Payments Policy – Remarks by Dan Katz, First Deputy Managing Director at Sibos 2026 Conference

Thank you, Graeme, and thank you SWIFT for the kind invitation. The theme of this year's conference is digital finance for AI-driven economies. This is an important topic for the IMF because an efficient and secure payments system is critical to economic growth and stability. Clearly, as the theme suggests, the financial system, and payments in particular, will need to evolve. If AI is used as widely as proponents expect, a great deal of economic activity will be undertaken by AI...

28 Sep

Chapter News, News

European Commission | EU Trade Agreements Continue to Benefit European Businesses

The EU's growing network of trade agreements helps European businesses to access new export markets and creates a more predictable trade and investment environment, according to a report published today. The sixth Annual Report on the Implementation and Enforcement of EU Trade and Economic Security Policy, covering the year 2025, concludes that EU trade agreements play a crucial role in increasing the resilience and competitiveness of EU operators. Preferential trade works At the end of 2025, the EU had in...

15 Sep

Chapter News, News

OECD | G20 GDP Growth Slows Slightly to 0.7% in the Second Quarter of 2026

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the G20 area grew by 0.7% in the second quarter of 2026, slightly down from 0.8% in the previous quarter, according to provisional estimates (Figure 1). This reflected a mixed picture across G20 countries for which data were available, with most recording a slowdown. Among G20 economies with available data, the contraction in Saudi Arabia deepened, with GDP falling by 4.8% in Q2 2026, following a 1.4% decline in Q1. This mainly reflected a sharp...

14 Sep

Chapter News, News

ECB | A New Age of Capital: Growth, Sovereignty and AI

Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at “Hofburg im Dialog – Economy, Europe, Resilience” in Vienna, Austria Vienna, 14 September 2026 Let me begin with a story that starts in this city. In this country, the years before 1873 have a name: the “Gründerzeit”, or “founders’ era”. The old city walls had come down and the Ringstrasse was rising where they had stood. Railways were pushing out across the empire. New banks and joint stock companies were being founded by the...

UPCOMING EACC EVENTS

09 Oct

INVITATION ONLY | Poland: The Gateway to Rebuilding Ukraine

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

EACCNY is organizing a small, closed-door roundtable discussion that brings together investors, corporates and advisors interested in Ukraine's reconstruction and opportunities in the wider region.

14 Oct

Opportunities for US investors in the European Dual-Use & Defense Technology Sector

08:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Europe’s defense sector is undergoing a profound transformation, marked by record levels of public spending, new EU funding instruments, and a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape. At the same time, private capital—particularly from the United States—is increasingly exploring opportunities in European defense and dual-use technologies, from drones and AI to satellite infrastructure and cybersecurity.

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PARTNER EVENTS

29 Oct

WEBINAR | Financial Strategy for Profitability and Growth

02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Hosted by CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) | Growth creates complexity — and finance plays a critical role in navigating it. As organizations grow, finance must evolve from function to a strategic driver.

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MEMBER NEWS

02 Oct

Member News, News

Trepp | Domestic CMBS Market Keeps Cooking

Domestic private-label CMBS issuance topped $100 billion this year through the end of September. That means 2026 is shaping up to be among the busiest years in the CMBS new-issue market since 2007, when for the full year, $230.5 billion of deals were brought to market. As has been the case in recent years, today's CMBS market is not your father's CMBS market. What was developed as a mechanism to tap the capital markets to fund middle-market commercial property loans...

02 Oct

Member News, News

KeyBank | Middle Market Snapshot: How Private Capital is Reshaping the Modern Capital Stack

Middle market companies keep investing despite the noise.While headlines on private credit have focused on high-profile defaults and concerns about late-cycle excess, the companies making capital decisions in this segment are leaning in, engaging with private capital partners, blending it with traditional bank financing, and using it to fund growth rather than to patch the balance sheet. The findings come from KeyBank’s Middle Market Snapshot Survey, which polled 319 owners and senior executives in April 2026 across revenue bands from...

01 Oct

Member News

EIB | European Commission and EIB Group launch Institutional Investors Pact to boost investment in tech scale-ups

01 Oct

Member News

IPTI | October Newsletter

Presidents Message: There is no respite from the turmoil currently affecting much of the USA in relation to property taxes. In an article with the title “The Property-Tax Temper Tantrum”, the author refers to a recent paper to which we have published a link on the IPTI website. The article states: “Everyone wants the government to pay for stuff. We need our Social Security, our Medicare, our police and fire protection, our elementary schools; heck, some would add universal...

30 Sep

Chapter News, Member News, News

EIB | European Commission and EIB Group launch Institutional Investors Pact to boost investment in tech scale-ups

New Micropodcast Series: What’s Happening Across the Atlantic

The EACCNY is happy to announce the launch of its “What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” series, an initiative that aims to offer our members and wider audience hands-on updates on current affairs and policy developments on both sides of the pond. In these 3-5 minute segments, EU and US policy makers and experts along with a select group of EACCNY members will answer a single timely question: What’s Happening Across the Atlantic” focusing on a specific topic that is relevant to our audience.

Member Spotlight

Synthec Fuels is a clean-energy and project development company focused on the production of sustainable fuels and low-carbon energy products from renewable and residual feedstocks. The company develops large-scale projects that convert biomass, biogenic residues and other suitable feedstocks into high-value products such as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, renewable naphtha, methanol and hydrogen. Its core focus is the development of industrial-scale SAF projects based on advanced industry proven processes, combining technology integration, engineering, feedstock and site development, permitting and commercial structuring. With projects in North America and Europe, Synthec Fuels is building scalable solutions designed to reduce lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions and support the decarbonization of aviation and other hard-to-abate sectors.