Commercial banking

Lisa McGeough is the CEO and head of banking at HSBC.

Brenden Gebben is the CEO of Absolute Capital Management, a specialized turnkey asset management platform provider offering robust 401(k) management solutions for advisors nationwide. 

Katie L.S. Von Kohorn is a partner at Boston law firm Casner & Edwards, specializing in trusts and estates and exempt organizations.

She serves as trustee of numerous trusts and works extensively on the investment, tax and legal aspects of trusts, as well as with the varied interests of trust beneficiaries.

The New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority is tapping the market for the second time in two months, this time with a $600 million refunding.

An Oklahoma agency is borrowing $1.15 billion through an unrated tax-exempt Public Finance Authority bond deal to build and equip a tire factory backed by Finnish interests.

Daily report for March 24, 2025

Municipal bond issuance for the week of March 24 is at $7.923 billion, with $6.673 billion of negotiated deals and $1.251 billion of competitive deals on tap.

The Chicago Public Schools ended the week no closer than it started to answering the question of how or if a scheduled pension payment will be made.

Dimitri Dadiomov is co-founder and CEO of Modern Treasury, which builds payments operation platforms for financial services companies.

The Los Angeles-based fund manager has expanded into debt financing to offer affordable housing developer clients a lower cost of capital.

Scott Engelbrecht is the chief development officer for CLA. For more than 30 years, he has dedicated his career to providing business and financial solutions to the firm's clients through its business lines: audit, tax, consulting, outsourcing and wealth advisory. In his current role as chief development officer, he is not only focusing on the firm's organic client growth but also driving forward greenfield opportunities, including opening new CLA locations and bringing other firms across the U.S. into the CLA family. He supports the development and management of the firm's financial reporting systems, and he coordinates across CLA to develop and manage appropriate measuring and reporting approaches required to accomplish the needs of the firm. Engelbrecht is also responsible for helping the firm reach stated financial goals for service lines, industry groups and geographic regions. As chief development officer, he leads and coordinates the overall facility management requirements of the firm and is responsible for coordinating a consistent approach operationally and financially regarding all lease, merger/acquisition and principal-related agreements.

Separately managed accounts have exploded in the muni market in recent years but high-yield SMAs remain rare.

The rating agency cited a tax cut package enacted by the state last year and uncertainty over federal policies for the outlook revision to stable from positive.

Washington's latest official state revenue forecast lopped almost $900 million from projected collections over the next four years.

Daily report for March 21, 2025

Get expert analysis of the May FOMC meeting, inflation outlook, and Powell's comments.