Commercial banking

Daily report for August 05, 2025

"If the narrative takes hold that the Fed is behind the eight ball and will need to cut rates several times in the coming months to catch up to the realities of a weaker economy, we expect muni yields will drift lower alongside treasuries," Birch Creek strategists said.

Dan Savickas is vice president of policy and government affairs at Taxpayers Protection Alliance.

Sequestration on direct-pay bonds kicks in Oct. 1 without a fresh funding bill.

The plan being floated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom would nearly double the $21 billion fund created to protect the state's investor-owned utilities from outsized wildfire claims.

Joe Carufe is a CAS evangelist and co-founder of Good Measure, a fast-growing cloud bookkeeping firm known for its people-first culture and operational rigor. With over a decade scaling CAS practices and onboarding 500+ firms at Karbon, he helps accounting leaders design modern, flexible firms that attract top talent and deliver high-impact client outcomes.

Aleisha Donald is a partner consultant at Xero.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

The council voted to preliminarily approve a $3.7 billion deal that will return an NFL team to play games inside the city limits while committing over $1 billion in taxpayer money.

Alessio Alionço is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a leading process management and AI platform. Brazilian-born Alionco is a high-impact global leader and has grown Pipefy from its founding in 2015 to a company with hundreds of customers worldwide. Pipefy delivers a business process automation platform that improves productivity and efficiency, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams in insurance.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed pension legislation that will put Chicago on the hook for an additional $60 million in its fiscal 2026 budget.

The municipal market has gone through several volatile years and the first half of 2025 continues to bring shifts to the landscape.

While high-yield out performed municipal investment grades in 2024,

The tremendous growth of separately managed accounts and exchange traded funds in the municipal market has been spurred on by lower fees,

The health network has struck up a partnership with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is selling debt to finance the related infrastructure in Boston. 

Daily report for August 04, 2025

Amy is the chief people officer for Lucet. She leads a team of HR professionals and provides business partnerships to drive people strategy, talent acquisition and management, learning and engagement, and total rewards. She is also an executive sponsor of the Lucet Impact & Responsibility Council.