Brian DeChesare

MAY 14, 2025

Infrastructure Investment Banking Definition: In infrastructure investment banking, bankers advise companies in the data center, renewables, transportation, utilities, and energy storage/transportation markets on equity and debt issuances, asset deals, and mergers and acquisitions. Treasuries, its less impressive.

Banking

Financial Times M&A

JULY 29, 2025

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Start-ups

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Return on Equity 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2.

Risk Premium

Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Another innovation is CashPro Capital Markets Insights, which is the first integrated capital markets experience available in a treasury mobile app, offering access to investment-grade secondary bond pricing alongside treasury information.

Banking

Global Finance

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Through financial advice, many have seized opportunities in offshore investments, equity, money markets, and other savings and investment classes. This diversification is crucial given the volatility of emerging market currencies and the need to secure returns during uncertain times, Manokore said in an online posting by Standard Bank.

Banking

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. The second set of inputs are prices of risk, in both the equity and debt markets, with the former measured by equity risk premiums , and the latter by default spreads.

Risk Premium

Global Finance

AUGUST 5, 2025

Global Finance: How did fiscal and monetary policy interact during your time at the US Department of the Treasury? Christopher Hodge: There was a high degree of coordination between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, but decisions about where on the yield curve to issue debt are solely within the Treasury’s purview.

Treasury

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

Thus, my estimates of equity risk premiums, updated every month, are not designed to make big statements about markets but more to get inputs I need to value companies. Many of these hiring firms have supply chains that stretch across the world and sell their products and services in foreign markets.

Start-ups

Brian DeChesare

JULY 23, 2025

Titles and groups are quite standard in IB but vary more in commercial banking (CB), and entry-level roles include everything from underwriters to credit officers to treasury officers/analysts and relationship managers; most people start as underwriters. GPA, and maybe a previous accounting or credit internship.

Banking

Musings on Markets

APRIL 7, 2025

Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its bearings (at least partially), it was clear from the initial reactions across the world that the breadth and the magnitude of the tariffs had caught most by surprise, and that a market markdown was coming.

Marketability

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Following two years of sticky inflation, exorbitant interest rates, and geopolitical tensions, worldwide equity issuance volume surged to $741 billion in 2024. Global inflation eased and major central banks began to cut interest rates: encouraging developments for equity issuers and investors. Thats up 20% from the previous year.

Banking

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Best Investment Bank: BofA Securities Against the backdrop of a thriving year for global stock markets and increased activity in the debt spectrum, Bank of America (BofA) Securities managed to catapult its global operations to capture an impressive 43% year-over-year jump in investment banking fees as of the fourth quarter of 2024.

Banking

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 14, 2025

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Start-ups

Reynolds Holding

MAY 11, 2023

Today, our $100 trillion capital markets—with the benefit of the securities laws—have become the deepest, most liquid, most trusted in the world. It also was in Chicago back in 2012 that, as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), I spoke with you about work to reform the $700 trillion swaps markets. [4]

Treasury

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

Marketability

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. How, you may ask, can equity risk premiums be that divergent, and does that imply that anything goes?

Risk Premium

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 30, 2022

These amendments would cause some of the most active participants in our equity and fixed-income markets to be required to register with FINRA. I was pleased to support these amendments because, if adopted, they would modernize and improve market oversight for regulators. treasury markets. 1 [link] (go back).

Equity

Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2022

equity mutual funds at the monthly, annual, decade, and full-sample horizons. equity mutual funds during the 1991 to 2020 period. We show that the percentage of funds that outperform market benchmarks decreases with the horizon over which returns are measured. Treasury Bills at the full-sample horizon. of observations.

Alpha

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, November 10, 2023 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of November 3-9, 2023 Understanding the Corporate Transparency Act’s Company Reporting Obligations Posted by Nathan Barnett, Daniel Bell, and Sebastian Orozco (..)

Treasury

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term. Stocks: The What?

Equity

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

Marketability

Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sell-Side Definition: In the finance industry, “buy-side firms” raise money from institutions and wealthy individuals and invest on their behalf, profiting from management fees, performance fees, or both; “sell-side firms” earn money from commissions charged to facilitate deals and to sell, market, and trade equity, debt, and other securities.

Finance

IVSC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He leads a team of quants, focusing on the valuations of complex securities and instruments issued by start-up companies to venture capital and private equity investors. Kwan Eng is a Chartered Valuer and Appraiser, and a Certified International Treasury Management professional.

Intangible Assets

Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 4, 2023

Any discussion of the financial markets in 2022 needs to acknowledge one important fact upfront: it was the worst year for stocks and bonds since at least 1871. Meanwhile, disasters kept emerging in the riskiest parts of the market, such as crypto (see: FTX , Celsius, etc.), Treasuries: 19% [Up 19%]. Short-Term U.S.

Marketability

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. As a result, treasury bond investors faced one of their worst years in history, losing close to a fifth of their principal, as bonds were repriced.

Treasury

Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

The nature of markets is that they are never quite settled, as investors recalibrate expectations constantly and reset prices. Clearly, we are not in one of those time periods, as markets approach bipolar territory, with big moves up and down.

Risk Premium

Financial Times M&A

JUNE 5, 2025

owes money to corporate spies and defamation lawyers Palantir is nuts. owes money to corporate spies and defamation lawyers Palantir is nuts. When’s the crash?

Start-ups

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 13, 2025

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Start-ups

Financial Times M&A

JULY 7, 2025

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Start-ups

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Governance and the Decoupling of Debt and Equity: The SEC Moves. Tags: Antitrust , Common ownership , Institutional Investors , Market efficiency , Ownership , Securities regulation. Lawsuit Against Meta Invokes Modern Portfolio Theory To Protect Diversified Shareholders. Top 5 SEC Enforcement Developments. federal courts.

Compliance

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

By the start of 2022, the window for early action had closed and for much of this year, inflation has been the elephant in the room, driving markets and forcing central banks to be reactive, and its presence has already induced me to write three posts on its impact.

Risk Premium

Simply Treasury

JULY 12, 2021

Nevertheless, there has been much less innovation for servicing (larger) companies, despite the potential of this market. Large MNCs are today using big ERPs, customized to their needs, integrated, or interfaced to many other IT treasury solutions dedicated to certain tasks. Treasury system needs is a huge pound.

Treasury

Benzinga

JANUARY 17, 2024

Market-implied probabilities of a rate cut by the Fed in March have declined to as low as 50%, down from over 70% at the beginning of the week, following recent hawkish statements from the Fed officials and stronger-than-expected economic data. Another day of losses shook up Wednesday’s stock trading session on Wall Street.

Marketability

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

Risk-free Rate

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The big story on Wednesday, September 18, was that the Federal Reserve’s open market committee finally got around to “cutting rates”, and doing so by more than expected. The market seemed to initially be disappointed in the action, dropping after the Fed’s announcement on Wednesday, but it did climb on Thursday.

Banking

Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What GameStop put on display was how much has changed—in technology and business models—since 2005 when we last comprehensively updated our equity market rules. The markets have moved to overwhelmingly trade electronically, with transaction volume in listed equities tripling in the last 17 years. [3]

Equity

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 17, 2024

Heading into 2023, US equities looked like they were heading into a sea of troubles, with inflation out of control and a recession on the horizon. Energy, one of the few survivors of the 2022 market sell-off, had a bad year, as did utilities and consumer staples. increase in market capitalization.

Risk Premium