The New Banks – Alternative Lending with SRZ’s Leading Structured Finance Lawyers

Alternative asset managers are increasingly meeting needs for finance that banks, hampered by capital requirements, multiple layers of regulation and gargantuan fines, can no longer fulfill. Indeed, the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements reported that cross-border lending in the first half of 2015 plunged by $910 billion, the largest drop since the crisis-stricken fourth quarter of 2008. In this article, The Hedge Fund Journal talks to partners Boris Ziser and Thomas R. Weinberger about the increasingly important role of alternative lenders.