Market Insights

Medicare Advantage is in the news. A once highly attractive, fast-growing market has whipsawed dramatically, leaving stakeholders uncertain about immediate prospects, longer-term consequences, and the future of the program. To discuss these developments, we enlisted leaders from Cain Brothers’ managed care team.

If you’ve ever booked a ride with Uber or shopped on Amazon, you’ve used embedded payments. Rather than manually entering credit card information or leaving the merchant’s website or app to complete a transaction, users pay with embedded payments by clicking a button, like Apple Pay or Google Pay.

The pharmaceutical market is broken down into two categories: small-molecule drugs, which are derived from chemicals created in a lab, and large-molecule drugs, which are extracted from living organisms. 

Is private equity the cause of or the solution to all of healthcare’s problems? Wyatt Ritchie, Group Head and Managing Director of Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets, joins Dave Johnson, CEO of 4sight Health, for a conversation about private equity’s role in healthcare transformation.

At the intersection of business growth, climate change and unprecedented power demand, it’s imperative to revolutionize our power infrastructure. But what does that look like? Here we explore the current state of load growth, critical resources to meet the demand, and challenges that must be addressed before it’s too late.

Despite market performance, optimism has increased for middle market business leaders looking to the second half of 2024. According to KeyBank’s latest Middle Market Sentiment survey of 700 owners and executives of businesses with $10 million to $1 billion in annual revenue, respondents are displaying a renewed confidence in their companies’ financial performance — with optimism jumping to its highest level in years. In the survey, 78% of middle market leaders characterized the outlook for their companies over the next 12 months as excellent or very good.

Learn how sophisticated affordable housing debt providers are finding creative solutions to meet borrower needs.

Interest rate volatility and widespread economic uncertainty have curtailed multifamily investment and financing activity in the past two years. Learn more about the asset class’s resiliency and how the strong fundamentals have resisted economic trends.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and technology are powering growth and playing a major role in the flourishing of middle market businesses in 2024. The impact is clear: In our latest survey, U.S. middle market business leaders cite AI, automation, and technology implementations as top methods for expanding operations.

Email has become the cornerstone of communication in the business world. Therefore, email is an increasingly appealing channel to cybercriminals. Over the past few years, a form of cyberattack known as business email compromise (BEC) has escalated in frequency and impact, causing significant financial and reputational damage to victim companies. 

Completing successful M&A transactions has additional challenges in today’s deal environment. Economic uncertainty and elevated interest rates have cooled the overall market. Many buyers, however, are eager to put money to work.

Despite the challenging market dynamics, KeyBank’s affordable housing team continues to grow loan volumes year-over-year.