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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Sovereign Funds Change The Patent Game

Trends | Patents As sovereign governments expand their investments into uncharted territories, a new kind of fund has emerged: the sovereign patent fund (SPF), a state-owned patent investment fund that buys and licenses patents, covers the cost of litigation and protects against patent infringement.

Banking

Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Ultimate Guessing Game

Changing fortunes in the region’s oil-rich economies have made the secretive world of sovereign wealth fund asset allocation even more opaque.

Features

Taiwan Roundtable: Ready To Manage The Risks

Taiwan is facing a challenging year, according to participants in a Global Finance roundtable in Taipei. But sound regulation has made banks resilient, and the mood is still upbeat.

Features

Taiwan: Bring It On

Taiwan’s new president and its banks face a tough market and a changing economic picture. They’re ready.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Taking The Long View: Crises Demand Attention, But So Do Long-Term Trends.

Corporate leaders can be forgiven for not thinking too far ahead. The length of time that investors hold stock has fallen. Share-holders want fast rewards—and quick fixes when performance flags. Moreover, given the upheavals and macroeconomic uncertainties of the past decade, many CEOs and CFOs have been preoccupied with firefighting.

Editor's Letter

The Long View

Working at a modern media outlet with a website, Twitter feed and the rest of it, we at Global Finance easily get caught up in the tumult of fresh content.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasurers On A Wild Ride

Foreign exchange volatility is a major headache for corporates, but with strategic planning it’s possible to enjoy the ride.

News

Who’s Who In The Middle East 2016

Global Finance’s list of Who’s Who in Middle Eastern finance

Award Winners

Winners Profile | Best Investment Banks 2016

Profiling the winners of the Best Investment Banks 2016

Award Winners

World’s Best Investment Banks 2016

The best banks see falling stock prices as an opportunity to finance takeovers with debt and sell bank equity to please regulators.

Features

P2P Scam Heightens Scrutiny Of Sector

Chinese authorities arrested executives from online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company eZubao in early February after the company stole an estimated $7.6 billion from 900,000 investors.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Activist Investors Target Banks

Management | Shareholder Activism Activist investors are knocking more loudly at banks’ doors. According to Thomson Reuters data, in 2015, activists launched 97 campaigns aimed at the US financial sector, 22 of them targeting banks.