Financial Services Focus
by Mayer Brown
Latest episode
The CLO Chronicles — NAIC's New Life RBC Factors Cross the Finish Line
The CLO Chronicles — NAIC's New Life RBC Factors Cross the Finish Line
About this podcast
Mayer Brown's Financial Services Focus podcast offers insight from our lawyers on the pivotal trends currently shaping the financial services industry. Topics include regulation leading up to the US election, impactful state laws, vendor risk, cybersecurity, structured finance, private credit investments, M&A activity, digital assets, fee lawsuits, AI discrimination claims, and commercial mortgage issues.
Financial Services Focus also provides a UK/European perspective, analyzing parallels and differences from US trends in areas like fintech, AI oversight and outsourcing rules. Our goal is to keep clients updated on the latest legal and market developments impacting financial services, wherever in the world you are.
Episodes
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- The CLO Chronicles — NAIC's New Life RBC Factors Cross the Finish Line · 38 minFor the past four years, the NAIC has been rethinking how much capital life insurance companies should hold against their investments in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) —…
- Navigating Distress: Commercial Real Estate Workouts in the CMBS and CLO Markets · 38 minIn this episode of Mayer Brown's Financial Services Focus, real estate partner Michael Weiss and Michael Cohen of Brighton Capital Advisors discuss the current state of the U.S…
- Consolidation, AI, and the Future of Mortgage Servicing · 31 minIn this episode of Financial Services Focus, Mayer Brown partner Lauren Pryor is joined by John Guzzo, Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey; Dan Thompson, CEO of Preferred…
- Implications of the CFPB's Proposed Rule under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act · 43 minSummary: In this episode of Financial Services Focus, Kris Kully and EY Managing Director of Financial Services Brian Clark discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's…
- End of the Penny: A Nickel for Your Thoughts? · 23 minThe United States has had a one cent coin since the founding of the nation and on Wednesday, November 12, the last American penny will be minted. Even though the relative value…
- CUM-EX and Dividend Arbitrage – Update on Developments · 17 minDividend arbitrage is a long-standing, historic issue in the financial services industry. It continues to impact businesses in numerous jurisdictions across Europe and has the…
- Financial Crime Compliance Requirements for Stablecoins · 24 minThe podcast dives into the fast-evolving world of stablecoins, explaining how these dollar-pegged digital assets are transforming payments with speed, transparency, and…
- Regulatory Reset: New Risks and Shifting Enforcement in 2025 · 12 minIn this episode of the Financial Services Focus Podcast, we'll examine changes in federal enforcement actions, financial penalties, and what these signal for the future under the…
- Current Mortgage & PropTech M&A Trends · 19 minIn this episode, our host Lauren Pryor is joined by Chris Gough and Michael Linger from Houlihan Lokey to discuss recent trends in Mortgage M&A, including consolidation among…
- FinCEN's First Strike: New Section 311 Powers Target Mexican Financial Institutions Under FEND Off Fentanyl Act · 16 minIn this episode, host Lauren Pryor and her colleagues discuss the recent actions by FinCEN, which designated three Mexican financial institutions as primary money laundering…
- Sandbagging in Delaware M&A: Court Rulings and Deal Implications · 10 minIn this episode of Financial Services Focus, Lauren Pryor and her colleagues discuss a recent Delaware Chancery Court opinion that reinforces Delaware's pro-sandbagging stance in…
- M&A Mortgage Tech · 14 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus, with partner Lauren Pryor, co-lead of the Financial Services Product Team, and Brad Peterson, a partner at the firm's…
- FCRA in Focus · 18 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with partner Eric Mitzenmacher and associate Kerri Webb, as they discuss the CFPB's recently proposed FCRA rulemaking…
- FinCEN Confirms Suspension of Corporate Transparency Act · 17 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with partners Gina Parlovecchio and Matthew Bisanz, and associate Kelly Truesdale, as they discuss FinCEN's recent…
- Corporate Loans and Real Estate in Germany · 9 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focuswith partner Martin Heuber, leader of the German office's Banking & Finance practice. In this episode, we discuss the impact…
- Warehouse Transactions · 13 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with partner Susannah Schmid and associate Jenna Siebold from Mayer Brown's Banking & Finance practice in Chicago, as they…
- Developments in UK/EU Collective Actions · 26 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with Mayer Brown partners Airlie Goodman (London) and Archis Parasharami (Washington, DC), who co-lead Mayer Brown's class…
- Recent Developments in the Payment Industry · 23 minJoin us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with Mayer Brown Partner, David Beam, and Houlihan Lokey Managing Director, Kartik Sudeep. Beam and Sudeep discuss…
- MSR Deal Points Q&A · 24 minIn this episode of Financial Services Focus, Eric Edwardson, Lauren Pryor and Chris Smith discuss selected key terms of purchase and sale agreements for residential mortgage…
- Consumer Arbitration in the US · 18 minJoin us for the latest episode of Financial Services Focus as Andy Demko and Archis Parasharami discuss how consumer arbitration became popular among U.S. businesses in response…
