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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Bitcoin ETFs Stroke Wall Street
Analysts say the cryptocurrency’s spike in price has more to do with inflation fears than pent-up demand for nascent ETFs.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
CFO Role Morphs From Number-Crunching To Crisis Management
CFOs must now tackle real-time emergencies and have the quick reflexes needed for crisis management.
News
Governments Reach Minimum-Tax Agreement
Under the terms of the deal, national governments would tax eligible multinational corporations at a minimum 15% tax rate starting in 2023.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Iran To Pilot Central Bank Digital Currency
Iran is experimenting with cryptocurrencies as a means of circumventing U.S. sanctions.
News
Japan: New Prime Minister, New Rules
Despite Fumoi Kishida’s public calls for a massive stimulus package and an even more consequential redistribution of wealth, some of his initial moves appear to confirm the dissonance between rhetoric and reality.
News
Land Grab For Asian Cloud Market By Chinese Firms
Alibaba Cloud is expanding into Malaysia,Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Major Car Producers Pare Production
The culprits behind these and dozens of other production cuts by automakers around the world are supply chain constraints and shortages of semiconductor chips.
News
New M&A Record Set For American Banks
During the worst part of the pandemic, M&A negotiations between banks were frozen but now bank M&A transactions areat their highest since 2008.
News
New Zealand Calls For Greater Climate Disclosures
New Zealand is the first sovereign state to approve a law requiring financial institutions, insurance companies and asset managers to disclose climate change risks.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Nigeria’s Stock Exchange Lists Itself
Although the shares are still closely held by erstwhile members, there is a strong appetite from nonmember retail investors and institutional investors to own shares in the exchange.