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Looming Fiscal Risk Threatens Ghana’s Recovery
State borrowing crowds out private lending in Ghana.
News
South Africa: New Finance Minister Steps Up
Godongwana is a close political ally of President Cyril Ramaphosa and an African National Congressheavyweight who cut his teeth in the labor union movement.
Features
Supermarket Giant Albertsons Bags Top-Shelf CFO
Best Buy alumSharon McCollam becomes CFO and president of the grocery powerhouse.
Award Winners
Sustainable Finance Awards 2021: A New Wave Of Green
With a new awards program, Global Finance highlights banks and companies taking the lead in innovating and expanding the reach of sustainable finance.
Features
The Crypto Wrangler
US Securities and ExchangeCommission ChairmanGary Gensler calls for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies to rid the sector of fraud, scams and abuse.
News
Zambia: Hichilema Takes The Helm Of State
Can a career businessman and management expert turn around Zambia's grim economic trajectory?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Tightening Regs And Near-Term Risks To Slow Dealmaking: Q&A With Amit Thakur
Amit Thakur, a managing director at Amax Capital and CFO of Augie, is a financial advisor in M&A, debt and equity raising, and strategic finance deals totaling $35 billion. A cross-border pro, Thakur launched Standard Chartered's U.S. M&A business, and led Morgan Stanley's Indian FIG group. He mentors startups as well as multinational companies, globally. As <a href="https://thesource.refinitiv.com/thesource/getfile/index/8d5d8efa-e75c-4857-9986-9526f9fd867e">worldwide M&A activity</a> reached $2.8 trillion in the first half of 2021, Thakur says there are plenty of factors that can affect deal pace, including heightened regulatory scrutiny, debt issuance and a tempering SPAC boom.
Features
Latin American ESG Bond Issuances Break Record In 2021
Latin America's debt markets are heating up and going green.
Expert Perspectives
In Conversation with Sael Al Waary, Deputy Group CEO of Bank ABC.
Global Finance’s Publisher and Editorial Director Joseph Giarraputo speaks with Sael Al Waary, Deputy Group CEO of Bank ABC. The discussion covers a number of topics on AI, the selection of ABC Labs in Global Finance’s Best Innovation Labs, Open Banking and Cloud development in Bahrain’s fintech infrastructure and ecosystem and Bank ABC’s launch of its digital-mobile only bank ila.
Expert Perspectives
In conversation with Admassu Tadesse, Group Managing Director & CEO, TDB Bank
Global Finance’s Publisher and Editorial Director Joseph Giarraputo speaks with Admassu Tadesse, Group Managing Director & CEO of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank – TDB. They discuss the development and status of TDB, the bank’s trade finance expertise across Africa including pioneering the use of a blockchain solution, and TDB’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.