Impact Lending News Today

Quantum Mortgages has hired Wes Friedel as head of bridging finance as the buy-to-let lender prepares for its entry into this market in the spring.   The specialist lender says Friedel joins from Impact Lending where he worked for two years, and was a key part of its move into senior bridging as head of risk.   

Asset manager Schroders Capital has given additional responsibility to its head of insurance-linked securities (ILS), with Stephan Ruoff now also becoming

“When I was young, I was poor. But after decades of hard work, I am no longer young.” The quip about “The greatest cause of death is birth” aside, we’re all going to die. The question is, “How?” It takes a while for statistics to catch up, but in 2019 the biggest killers of Americans were heart disease, cancer, and being poor. “There were at least 180,000 poverty-related deaths in 2019, new research estimates, surpassing deaths from causes ...

Born in Ukraine, Golda Meir said, “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." (Doubtful anyone called her Goldy.) Her time as the Prime Minister of Israel ended in 1974, and since that time oldsters in our biz have seen the yield curve invert ten times, give or take. Bond traders are no longer fully convinced that the Federal Reserve will do one more quarter-point interest-rate hike, given the nervousness about First...

“I’ve had $8,000 in my bank account and I’ve had $8. Let me tell you, the $8 lasted longer.” $42 billion in deposits didn’t last long in Silicon Valley Bank. Until lunch, basically, as money was silently transferred to other depositories in a matter of hours. Western Alliance is in the headlines today, and at another “headline” bank, First Republic Bank’s stock price plummeted down but has leveled off since, although the stock is trading at...

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Regulatory News: During the first quarter of 2022, Tikehau Capital (Paris:TKO) saw strong momentum across geographies and asset classes. The Group's global footprint expanded both in terms of fundraising

The UK’s sixth Carbon Budget has enshrined a new target in law to slash emissions by 78% by 2035. This is the world’s most ambitious climate change target and will see emissions return to their 1990s levels.