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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fund Raising: SPACs Return To Favor

SPACs ,created in the US in the 1990s to help financial sponsors raise funds more quickly in capital markets, had suffered, until recently, from a weak IPO market and several failed acquisitions.

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Kraft Heinz Picks Up A Millenial CFO

David Knopf, 29 years old,represents a new breed of millennial executives who have risen up the ranks at global companies.

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Lima To Reap Economic Benefits Of Pan American Games In 2019

Peru is expected to invest $1.5 billion in infrastructure for the games, including sporting facilities required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and at least 16 projects to improve chaotic traffic in the capital.

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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund To Undertake Major Review

The country's wealth fund is the largest in the world with a staggering $1 trillion valuation.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Bitcoin Wars: Regulation Vs. Opportunity

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that raise funds using digital currencieshave come under regulatory fire in recent times.

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Uzbekistan Comes In From The Cold

Since becoming president in December, Shavkat Mirziyoyevhas embraced the West, the IMF and the EBRDnormalizingrelations with the countryafter a 10-year freeze.

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Emerging Markets Draw Record Private Equity Funding

Emerging markets took 9% of the global total of $240 billion invested by private capital funds during the the first half of 2017, the highest share since before emerging markets’ sudden fall from grace in 2011.

Features

Countries With Highest GDP Growth 2017

Nauru, Ethiopia, Turkmenistan, Qatar, China and Uzbekistan are the countries with the fastest growing economies in the World as per IMF data for the last 10 years. Here is a complete list for the world's fastest growing economies in 2017 by GDP.

Award Ceremonies and Events

Top 10 Safest Banks In Middle East For 2017

Global Finance has named the Safest Islamic financial institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the safest banks in the middle eastin an exclusive survey to be published in the November 2017 issue.

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Bogliolo To Add Some Glimmer To Tiffany & Co

The luxury jewelry brandhas hiredveteran luxury industry executiveAlessandra Bogliolo as CEOhoping to revive its past lustre

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Iraq Welcomed Back To Global Debt Market

With an enticing yield of 6.75%, Iraq attracted $6.6 billion in orders for its $1 billion issue of five-and-a-half-year bonds in early August, its first independent bond sale in more than a decade.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Central Banker Report Cards 2017

In our October issue, Global Financepresents its latest annual grading of the world's central bank governors. Here, we present the nine who received an "A" grade in 2017: thosefrom Australia, Honduras, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Paraguay, Russia, Taiwan and the United States.