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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Debt
Debt markets were busy last year, but 2025 is off to a slow start as issuers take a wait-and-see approach....
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A
After two muted years, 2024 didn’t quite meet expectations; hopes for a busy 2025 are already wobbling. Persistent inflation and...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Infrastructure
The infrastructure sector is fertile ground for dealmakers, as producers around the world seek to expand. Throughout 2024, the infrastructure...
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Strategic Partner to West Africa’s Growing SME Sector
Bridge Bank Group Côte d’Ivoire (BBG CI) has emerged as a major player in the nation’s banking industry and a supportive financial partner to the region’s economically important SME sector. Ehouman Kassi, BBG CI’s CEO, discusses the bank’s new portfolio guarantee agreement with the African Guarantee Fund and expansion of its successful SME strategy.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Bulgaria: Return To Growth
Of late, Bulgaria has been one of the fastest growing economies in southeastern Europe. But foreign investors are looking for...
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Financing The Future: Q&A With Standard Chartered’s Abbas Husain
Abbas Husain, Standard Chartered’s global head of Infrastructure and Development Finance, discusses the rapid pace of change and innovation in...
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Critical Minerals, Critical Moves: Q&A With BMO Capital Markets’ Ilan Bahar
Ilan Bahar, co-head of BMO Capital Markets’ Global Metals & Mining Group—winner of Best Investment Bank in Metals & Mining—considers...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Hyundai Agrees To Deal To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs
Hyundai Motor Group has managed to sidestep the Trump administration’s tariff threats. All it cost was $21 billion. The South...
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NBB: Leading Sustainable Banking in Bahrain
Bahrain’s first local bank with expanding retail and corporate markets at home and in the GCC, National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) places ESG best practices at the core of its operations and strategy. Jean-Christophe Durand, CEO of NBB, discusses the bank’s sustainability leadership and how its commitment to responsible banking strengthens its market position and alignment with Bahrain’s future economic goals.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Klarna IPO Could Redefine Payments Market
Fintech giant Klarna has filed a registration statement to the SEC to propose an IPO but has put the process...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Google Cloud Eyes Wiz Purchase
Pending regulatory approval, Google plans to acquire multi-cloud security platform provider Wiz in an all-cash deal worth $32 billion. Once...
Banking
Making Record Profits: Emirates NBD Group CEO Shayne Nelson Q&A
Shayne Nelson, group CEO of Emirates NBD, Dubai’s government-owned bank and one of the largest banks in the Middle East...
Banking
Tapping Growth Potential: NBK CEO-Kuwait Salah Al Fulaij
Salah Al Fulaij, CEO-Kuwait at National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), discusses Kuwait’s path toward economic and banking reform and NBK’s...
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Securing the Future of Digital Finance
As institutions and corporates stock up on digital assets, they must also ensure these are well safeguarded, says Ee Fong Soh, Group Head of Securities & Fiduciary Services at DBS.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Green Flag For MENA Sports Investment
As part of their diversification and job-creation efforts, MENA states are turning themselves into a new global hub of professional...