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Goldberg Kohn's Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation, Laura Jakubowski, has been honored with a 2024 IMPACT Award from the Secured Finance Network. Laura received the Volunteer of the Year award for Advocacy.
SFNet launched its IMPACT Awards in 2024 to celebrate excellence in the secured finance industry. Award recipients were honored at a special celebration on November 12, 2024, in Houston before SFNet’s 80th Annual Convention. They are also profiled in the November 2024 edition of The Secured Lender.
In October Laura assumed the role of chair of SFNet’s Advocacy Committee for the fiscal year 2025. She first became involved with the Advocacy Committee when she volunteered for a project involving proposed U.S. regulations to implement the Basel III international banking regulatory framework. During that project, she learned that there is a great deal of misinformation about how the ABL product works, how important it is and how safe it is.
In her The Secured Lender profile, Laura says that when it comes to asset-based lending, it is important for SFNet members to share their expertise in order to help develop sensible regulations that are suited for the purposes their country, states and communities are trying to accomplish.
"It is also important to keep in mind that, outside of headline-grabbing federal regulations, states are often implementing new laws and regulations that have a broad reach in financial markets – and we need interested folks to dig into state-level activity as well," says Laura. "There are many ways to get involved, and it is so important that we collaborate and share our collective expertise and insights on asset-based lending."
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