“The current challenge has been keeping the ‘affordable’ in affordable housing,” said Steve Scharff. Title: Senior ManagerFirm: Baker Tilly Municipal AdvisorsAge: 32 Steve Scharff has been in his current position with Baker Tilly for about two years but has been working in the financial world since 2015. What Steve offers to the firm’s clients is
“I like the complexity of the transactions that we help bring to life and to see how those transactions positively further the missions of the nonprofits,” said Gretchen Sherwood. Title: CounselFirm: Nixon Peabody LLPAge: 35 Gretchen Sherwood has developed Nixon Peabody’s charter school finance practice into a nationally respected program while maintaining excellent relations with
“As a credit analyst in healthcare, I have a front row seat for a sector undergoing immense pressure and change, a sector that affects all levels of our society at both a macro level and a deeply personal level,” Patrick Zagar said. Title: DirectorFirm: S&P Global RatingsAge: 32 Patrick Zagar has been with S&P Global
“Having a chance to talk directly about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, it’s reinforcing, in a way,” said Claude Lockhart Jr.Claude Lockhart Jr. Title: DirectorFirm: StifelAge: 31 Claude Lockhart Jr. lines his desk with “souvenirs” from bond projects he’s worked on. Letters and thank you notes, gifts and plaques from cities that
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Managing Associate Joshua Bonney calls his work at Orrick “a match made in heaven.”© Gittings Photography Title: Managing AssociateFirm: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPAge: 33 Early in his career, Joshua Bonney, a managing associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, has already worked with some of the municipal bond market’s
“I love that every deal is a little different and there is something to be learned from each one,” said Stephanie Kim. Title: Of Counsel Firm: Ballard Spahr LLPAge: 36 Stephanie Kim packs a full legal toolbox for her role as of counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Ballard Spahr. Since moving from the Atlanta
“I like rolling my sleeves up, looking at the numbers, figuring out the story in my head, as I’m reading everything,” Matthew Shapiro said. Title: DirectorFirm: Assured GuarantyAge: 35 The challenge of covering healthcare and higher education credits has never scared Matthew Shapiro. “I like rolling my sleeves up, looking at the numbers, figuring out
“I really value individuals who come from non-traditional backgrounds, who bring with them a different skill set and a different experience,” Ashlee Gabrysch said. Title: Director, Regional ManagerFirm: Fitch RatingsAge: 39 As Ashlee Gabrysch wrapped up her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary Slavic studies at the University of Chicago, she realized she might need to change
“My goal, whether I was in muni finance or any other part of the investment management industry, was to support females and help them advance,” Regina Gaysina said. Title: DirectorFirm: RBC Capital MarketsAge: 34 Regina Gaysina is the most active K-12 municipal financial advisor in New Mexico — and the only woman in her role
“We do different stuff for school districts than we do for anybody else,” said Mattie Prodanovic. Title: Senior Vice PresidentFirm: HilltopSecuritiesAge: 33 Having the right professor at the right time can make all the difference. Mattie Prodanovic enrolled at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago thinking the public policy master’s degree she earned
Bernard Looney’s short tenure at the top of BP will now always be associated with his failure to disclose the extent of past personal relationships with colleagues. The oil man, who resigned late on Tuesday, is the third BP chief executive to exit prematurely since May 2007. Despite this, he deserves credit for forcing BP
Bernard Looney’s sudden resignation as chief executive of BP has cast greater doubt over the energy company’s strategy, with investors watching closely to see who takes over the top job for clues. Looney, who stepped down on Tuesday after admitting he had failed to disclose the extent of past relationships with colleagues, had positioned BP
Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. US Treasury yields and the dollar edged lower on Wednesday, as investors shrugged off figures showing that US inflation last month was higher than expected. Yields on the interest rate-sensitive two-year US Treasuries fell to
Professional services firm EY will add more than 1,000 jobs in Northern Ireland in the next five years, more than doubling its employment in the region as it trims jobs and pay elsewhere in the UK. The jobs, announced as a UK government-sponsored investment summit in Belfast gets under way on Wednesday, will be a
The writers are the finance ministers of France and Germany Europe’s economic strength in the next decades will be determined by our ability to mobilise private investment. We must accelerate the green and digital transitions of our economy. To do so, we must enable businesses to raise the massive amounts of private capital necessary —
If there is anyone who knows how to destroy the Conservative party it is Dominic Cummings. The leader of Vote Leave and former strategist to Boris Johnson delivered two huge victories for his cause but at a high price to the vehicle. Now, exiled and angry, he is turning his mind to smashing and replacing
In May, hundreds of leading figures in artificial intelligence issued a joint statement describing the existential threat the technology they helped to create poses to humanity. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority,” it said, “alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” That single sentence invoking the
Receive free US economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US economy news every morning. Investment chiefs at two of the world’s largest asset managers have warned that the risk of a US recession is rising, even as government officials and a growing number of investors believe the
Inflation has started to show signs of easing from the multi-decade highs reached in many countries following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The latest figures for most of the world’s largest economies still make for worrying reading, with price pressures remaining high as the war in Ukraine continues to keep energy and food prices elevated.
US inflation exceeded forecasts in August after fuel prices rose, but underlying price pressures eased. The headline rate of consumer prices rose 3.7 per cent year on year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.2 per cent in July and higher than consensus forecasts of 3.6 per cent. On a monthly basis,