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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Lululemon’s McDonald Steps Down As CEO

Leisure and sportswear-maker Lululemon Athletica will start the year searching for a new chief executive, as CEO Calvin McDonald announced his departure during the company’s third-quarter earnings call in early December.

Insurance

The Structural Shift Redefining Insurance Risk

Social inflation, driven by litigation funding, looms as a global systemic risk in the insurance sector.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Salon: Aclara Takes On China In Rare Earth Processing

François Motte, CFO of Chilean-based Aclara Resources, explains the company’s vertical integration model, the economics of competing with China, and how pre-launch offtake agreements help fund development.

Boubyan Bank: Kuwait’s Partner in Digital Banking

Kuwait is emerging as a forward-thinking player in the global banking landscape. Boubyan Bank’s Abdullah Al Tuwaijri, Chief Executive Officer for Consumer, Private & Digital Banking discusses Kuwait’s digital banking strategy and Boubyan Bank’s central role in reshaping Kuwait’s banking sector with innovative digital financial services.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Breaking China’s Grip On Rare-Earth Elements

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets, used in everything from consumer electronics to weapon systems, by developing new mining, processing, and synthetic projects?

Executive Interviews

After Maduro: Why Regime Change Doesn’t Mean Stability For Venezuela—Or Investors

Economist Abigail Hall explains what Maduro’s removal means for Venezuela, global markets, and the risks of US-led regime change.

Executive Interviews

Standard Bank’s Arno Daehnke On Corporate Risk And Liquidity Strategies

The chief finance and value management officer at the Johannesburg, South Africa-based bank explains how companies are strengthening liquidity, diversifying funding, and adopting digital tools to manage rising debt pressures and global volatility.

Executive Interviews

‘Compliance Is the Foundation’: Kawa Junad On Banking Digitally In Iraq

Few executives have shaped Iraq’s digital transformation as directly as Kawa Junad, founder of First Iraqi Bank.

Cybersecurity: A key focus for North American Banks

In the first half of the year, North American banking executives’ spending on cybersecurity actually outpaced that on artificial intelligence (AI). In both areas, talent has proven the most difficult to recruit. These spending insights are part of key findings revealed in the second edition of the Infosys Bank Tech Index, according to Ajay Bhandari from Infosys.

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News & Features Archive

Lululemon’s McDonald Steps Down As CEO

The Structural Shift Redefining Insurance Risk

Global Salon: Aclara Takes On China In Rare Earth Processing

Boubyan Bank: Kuwait’s Partner in Digital Banking

Breaking China’s Grip On Rare-Earth Elements

After Maduro: Why Regime Change Doesn’t Mean Stability For Venezuela—Or Investors

Standard Bank’s Arno Daehnke On Corporate Risk And Liquidity Strategies

‘Compliance Is the Foundation’: Kawa Junad On Banking Digitally In Iraq

Cybersecurity: A key focus for North American Banks

Dividend Recapitalization Is On The Rise

Toyota Supercharges US Investment—Or Is It?

Hurricane Melissa Devastation Saddles Jamaica With Multi-Billion-Dollar Bill

Czech Republic’s Election Winner Is Up In The Air

Converse Bank: At the Forefront of Innovation in Armenia

Japan’s New Finance Minister Walks A Fiscal-Policy Tightrope