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...

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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...

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30 Sep
News, TRIA News

EIB | Naftogaz Sets a Greener Course for Ukraine’s Energy Future with EIB Support

Naftogaz has adopted a new decarbonisation strategy to reduce emissions and develop cleaner energy solutions. The strategy was developed with €400,000 in technical assistance funded by the EIB. The EIB and Naftogaz will continue working together to support a cleaner, more resilient Ukrainian energy sector. Ukraine’s state-owned energy company Naftogaz Group has adopted a new decarbonisation strategy, with support from the European Investment Bank (EIB), marking an important step towards a cleaner and more sustainable energy future....

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30 Sep
Chapter News, Member News, News

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...

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28 Sep
Member News, News

Barnes & Thornburg | Russia Sanctions and Tariffs: What Businesses Need to Know About the Graham Act

Highlights New tariffs create immediate supply chain exposure. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (the Graham Act) authorizes duties of up to 100% on all goods from countries that are top-five purchasers of Russian energy or top-five facilitators of oil sanctions evasion. It also requires duties of up to 500% on Russian-origin goods, stacked on top of existing duties. The president's first country determinations are due within 30 days of enactment, or about Oct....

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28 Sep
Member News, New York Related News, News

Littler | New York Proposes Workplace Opioid Antagonist Regulations

The New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) has proposed regulations implementing New York Labor Law section 27-f, which requires certain employers to make an opioid antagonist, such as naloxone or Narcan, available for workplace first aid or emergency treatment. The proposed rules would require covered employers to determine an adequate supply for each workplace, make the medication quickly accessible, recruit and train employee volunteers, and establish inspection, replacement, and disposal practices before the statute takes effect in December...

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28 Sep
Member News, News

Jaguar Freight | Rate Trends in Ocean Freight, New Enforcement at the Border, Managing the growth of AI in the industry, and more

In this week’s Roar: Rate trends in ocean freight, new enforcement at the border, the Asia-Pacific air cargo market, Chinese-backed cyber espionage, and managing the growth of AI in the industry. The global container freight market continues to show diverging trends across major trade lanes, according to the latest WCI. On the Transpacific trade, Shanghai to Los Angeles rates rose 2% while Shanghai to New York held steady, and blank sailings are set to climb from nine to 15 this...

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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...

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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...

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24 Jul
Member News, News

Noerr | Digital Omnibus: AI Is Nearing the Finish Line – Is EU Data Law Heading Down the Wrong Track?

The provisional agreement reached on 7 May 2026 between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union regarding the Digital Omnibus on AI falls short of its stated aim of promoting innovation. Against this backdrop, the yet-to-be-reached agreement on the Digital Omnibus (on data law) is of paramount importance for Europe’s attractiveness as a business location. Rather than rushing to close a deal, the EU should seize this opportunity to enact genuine reforms that avoid stifling AI innovation at...

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