Cris Cicala

Partner, Stinson LLP

Cris Cicala is a partner in Stinson LLP's New York City office. A corporate, finance and banking attorney with more than two decades of both domestic and international experience, Cris focuses his practice on providing corporations, financial institutions, private equity and credit funds, real estate developers, media companies and entrepreneurs with practical and strategic legal advice.

Regulation and compliance

Basel delay won't diminish banks' appetite for synthetic risk transfers

The Fed's willingness to rethink the Basel endgame is good news for banks, but many large institutions are still going to want to push forward with credit-linked notes and similar strategies.

By Cris Cicala

April 15

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SBA

SBA's push to revive an old idea

Isabel Casillas Guzman, administrator of the Small Business Administration, wants the agency to get involved in direct lending, a practice that was discontinued during the Clinton administration. Congress has not embraced the idea, to put it mildly.

By John Reosti

3h ago
Risk management

Yes, your bank has a supply chain, and it's fraught with risk

Extensive partnerships with third-party service providers, fintechs and other partners are the banking equivalent of a supply chain, and bankers need to be clear-eyed about assessing the risk associated with them.

By Samantha Regan

3h ago
Payments

Meet the bank that's replacing every debit card with wood

GLS had already stopped issuing first-use plastic as of 2018, but it wasn't enough for the eco-minded German bank. Fake plastic still looks and feels like plastic.

By Daniel Wolfe

3h ago