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March 15, 2022
Capital Advisors Group has been advising companies seeking to obtain venture debt for more than 18 years. Among the most common questions we get from new clients are “How much do you think we can borrow?” or, “We would like to borrow X. Do you think that is possible?” Clearly,
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March 3, 2022
LIBOR entered its next phase on January 1st, 2022. The date marked when no new financial contracts could be priced off LIBOR, which underpinned more than $200 trillion in loans , contracts, and derivatives as of the end of 2020. LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate) will still be published
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February 3, 2022
The Fed held its first meeting of 2022 last week and erased any lingering doubts, of which there were few, that it will raise the overnight lending rate when it next convenes in mid-March. In the press release following the meeting, the FOMC stated that “the Committee expects it will
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January 19, 2022
Stepping into office with leading and supporting roles open across the government’s top financial regulators, the Biden administration was given a unique opportunity to reshape the financial regulatory landscape. Nominating four members to the seven-member Federal Reserve Board and promoting another to a key position, the Biden Administration has already
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January 18, 2022
The Fed appears likely to increase its overnight rate target at the March 15th-16th FOMC meeting. In addition to many other Fed officials who have expressed a willingness to tighten monetary policy to contain inflation pressures, Fed Chair Powell reinforced the hawkish tone at his Senate nomination hearing earlier this
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November 3, 2021
The Federal Reserve met over the past two days to review its stance on monetary policy, and it has provided specific details on plans to taper its bond purchase program over the next few quarters. Since March of 2020, the central bank has been buying $120 billion of assets each
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November 1, 2021
Co-authored by: Alexander Goldman In June of 2019 the House Committee on the Judiciary launched an investigation into whether Silicon Valley had fallen under the grip of a few large gatekeepers that have come to control key areas of e-commerce. A sixteen-month examination of key players’ market dominance, primarily focusing
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October 29, 2021
In this webinar, Stefan Spazek and special guests Bill Wickline, who leads the national life sciences practice for Bridge Bank, and Robert Lake, leader of the national life sciences group at Runway Growth Capital, discuss debt financing for growing companies in the healthcare sector. Watch a recording (10/27/2021) of Capital
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October 14, 2021
While most major integrated oil and gas companies have expressed alignment with the Paris Agreement, efforts made by U.S. players to address climate change with a transition to more renewable energy sources have fallen short in comparison to their European counterparts. As some drag their feet on sustainability efforts, governments,
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June 30, 2021
As the US economy emerges from the severe economic dislocation of the pandemic, early indications point to a strong recovery in 2021, with GDP growth poised to exceed 6% based on annualized first quarter data. Expansionary fiscal and monetary policy, healthier household balance sheets, and pent-up consumer demand are likely
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