By: Rachel Szymanski, Chief Economist, TREPP The Fed cut rates by 25 basis points at the October 2025 Federal Open Market Committee meeting,  an expected move that marks a cautious step in the easing cycle. Officials framed the decision as a balance between risks that are shifting in opposite directions: inflation edges up, while labor markets cool. The cut reflected a relative shift towards greater labor market risks, returning closer to the neutral rate, although still leaving policy modestly restrictive. What...

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Mönchengladbach, Germany – International trade finance company Tradewind Finance today announced a USD 3.5 million factoring facility for a Hong Kong subsidiary of a leading family-owned and operated shirt brand based in Germany. The Hong Kong company is utilizing the facility to further improve cash flow and efficiently manage their international operations amid shifting trade policy. With a strong brand legacy for quality shirts, the Hong Kong subsidiary is reengineering their financing options when orders for the brand’s shirts started...

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By now, you've read countless stories and headlines that assure you that the commercial property market has turned the corner. The worst is past. You might have read some of that here. There are numerous data points to indicate that to be true. While CMBS delinquency rates continue to inch higher, albeit at a much slower pace, that metric is a lagging indicator. A loan goes delinquent after its collateral has lost a tenant or otherwise suffered a drop in...

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LYSAKER, Norway, and MANASSAS, Va., USA, October 30, 2025 — Tschudi Shipping Company, NAL Research, and SGM Technology AS today commercially launched PntGuard™, a maritime-security solution that provides pinpoint situational awareness. It supports navigational integrity at a time when GNSS signals can no longer be taken for granted. A standalone navigational aid independent of all other bridge systems, PntGuard delivers instant alerts the moment a vessel’s position is falsified, providing true position data when other bridge systems are compromised. ELECTRONIC WARFARE: AN ESCALATING MENACE Malicious disruption of GNSS/GPS...

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Key insights: • As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand and be used in more organizations and more applications, remember the associated risks and need for guardrails. • Information technology departments must stay one step ahead of malicious actors. Develop regulations and governance to verify the security of AI models. • AI can be used to help effectively monitor cybersecurity but it’s important to verify the system has controls to protect against potential compromises. Consider system development lifecycle, change management, segregation of...

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the launch of its Streamlined Claim Set Pilot Program, a new initiative aimed at evaluating how limiting the number of claims in a patent application impacts examination efficiency and quality. Ordinarily, new patent applications are examined in the order of their U.S. filing date or national stage entry date. Under this pilot program, however, Applicants with pending, original, noncontinuing utility applications may be eligible for special status—that is, examination out...

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ING announced today that Ida Lerner will be appointed chief financial officer of ING. Until recently, Ida served as chief financial officer at Norwegian bank DNB. She will succeed Tanate Phutrakul who will step down from his position at ING’s Annual General Meeting in April 2026 as announced in July 2025.
 Effective 1 April 2026, Ida will be appointed as member of the Management Board Banking. The Supervisory Board will propose to shareholders to appoint her as member of the...

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By Shannon Meade Executive Director, Workplace Policy Institute, Jim Paretti, Alex MacDonald, and Maury Baskin, Shareholders, Littler Washington, D.C. NLRB Challenges California Over New Labor Law  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday filed suit against the state of California and the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California over the state’s newly enacted labor law (AB 288), which grants broad authority to the state’s PERB to regulate private sector labor disputes...

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