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John SalomoneManaging DirectorStructured Finance International, LLC What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Not All Real Estate Is the Same - 4 Different Issues

November 9, 2009

Handling real estate loans will be a tough act | www.dallasnews.com

Real estate financing and refinancing poses 4 different levels of risk for lenders and owners, based on the project life cycle and its financing and overall structure. Broad statements about the looming problems are just that "broad statements" Real estate market participants must look at each transaction within the context of the 4 kinds of Real Estate Finance Structures, if they want to properly assess financing and refinancing values, issues and risk.

Nathaniel Finkin, Managing Partner and Principal

Nathaniel FinkinManaging Partner and PrincipalFinkin Capital Advisors What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

UK banking landscape presents potential for new competitors

September 21, 2009

State Bank of India open to acquisitions in UK | www.reuters.com

The large scale nationalization of the UK banking system leaves open the possibility for new players to enter the marketplace and compete.  While American banks are still struggling en masse with capital issues, many foreign banks are not facing those same issues, and are likely to consider the UK for expansion opportunities.

Nathaniel Finkin, Managing Partner and Principal

Nathaniel FinkinManaging Partner and PrincipalFinkin Capital Advisors What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Higher defaults in a CRE book don't necessarily translate to more losses

September 16, 2009

Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Add to Predictions of Higher Defaults | www.bloomberg.com

One of the most compelling contrasts between the 2007-08 (and still ongoing) meltdown in the residential housing market, vs. the forecast bubble-burst in commercial real estate for 2009-10, is the methodology banks and lenders use to forecast losses.  This contrast will definitely lend itself to more transparency and clarity with this current lending crisis vs. the previous residential and consumer meltdown. 

Nathaniel Finkin, Managing Partner and Principal

Nathaniel FinkinManaging Partner and PrincipalFinkin Capital Advisors What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Capital One will be pressured along several fronts in 2009

June 11, 2009

Capital One Looks to Adapt to Credit Card Laws | www.washingtonpost.com

1) The CARD act of 2009 will impair fee collection, and absent a new drive to assess annual fees to their better clients it will be challenging if not impossible to recoup those fees. 2) Capital One will be dealing with rising unemployment, which has and will continue to correlate directly to higher delinquency and higher charge offs 3) The response to these events from a risk management perspective will inhibit asset growth and thus compound the earnings issue

Nathaniel Finkin, Managing Partner and Principal

Nathaniel FinkinManaging Partner and PrincipalFinkin Capital Advisors What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Pensions are a dying breed

April 22, 2009

Employers to close more pension schemes as funding shortfall hits record | www.telegraph.co.uk

1) The nature of the employment landscape has so fundamentally changed over the last 30 years that the retirement vehicles put into place to help employees are nearly obsolete. 2) Pensions, in addition to their nearing obsolecence, are becoming significant liabilities for firms, who are struggling with record violatility in the value of their pension funds 3) Firms are finding and utilizing alternative solutions to provide employees with enhanced retirement benefits

Patrick Young, Founder and Chairman

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

BATS Beats Turquoise, Europe's MTFs Look More Volatile Than Ever Under Mifid

March 26, 2009

BATS Europe Passes Turquoise In Market Share, Sets Numerous Volume Records | www.mondovisione.com

The fact that Turquoise has lost its shareholder market makers has caused its volume to slump, allowing upstart (and US 500lb gorilla) BATS Europe to leap ahead in market share. Takeovers by legacy exchanges now look more likely than ever.

Patrick Young, Founder and Chairman

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

NASCAR Retains A Super Brand But In An Expensive Domain

March 25, 2009

Turner Revs Up Original Nascar Web Series | www.mediaweek.com

NASCAR has become the most successful motorsport brand in the USA. However, other series are suffering massive financial issues as sponsors drop out in the current economic climate and experts point to a drop in US motorsport sponsorship in 2009.

Patrick Young, Founder and Chairman

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Adair: FSA Will Be Tougher But Not As Tough As Some?

March 20, 2009

London will remain key financial centre as light-touch regulation ends, Turner insists | www.telegraph.co.uk

The Turner Report hints that the UK FSA may get tough but not really that tough, or at least, they are going to leave the being really tough bit to other jurisdictions...

Patrick Young, Founder and Chairman

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Moscow Exchange Makes An Eastern Advance

March 19, 2009

The UB Post-Leading English News - Mongolian and Russia Taking Stock in Each Other | ubpost.mongolnews.mn

MICEX and RTS are clearly competing in Russia's securities market but now MICEX are looking to tie up some overseas opportunities at some distance to their Moscow base.

Patrick Young, Founder and Chairman

Patrick YoungFounder and ChairmanDerivatives Vision What is a GLG Leader?|GLG Leaders are a separate tier of Council Members with a Council Rank in the top 5%. These GLG Member Program participants are eligible for ongoing, in-depth consultative relationships with GLG clients.

Polish Government Hit The Right Note With IMF

March 19, 2009

Poland needs no IMF credit, wants to lend to IMF-finmin | www.forbes.com

Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski pulls another excellent stroke in his efforts to demonstrate that Poland may be surviving in the face of a pan-western ignorance about the granular differences of CEE and SEE economies.

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