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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CEO Pay Disclosure Shadows Public Companies

SEC & Executive Compensation | Five years after the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act, several of its controversial corporate governance provisions on executive compensation continue to wend their way through the system.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFOs Put Big Data Into Action

Big Data | Chief financial officers have been modeling profit and loss statements for years, but in an era of big data they face a different and increasingly complex task.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Chilean Economy | All Eyes On Valdés To Spur Growth

Chile | For years Chile has been recognized as one of the best-performing emerging markets in the world. But a combination of external and internal factors have changed that.

Country Report

Egyptian Economy Turns As Reforms Take Hold

Country Report | Egypt Egypt may be on the verge of a major turnaround, as the most populous country in the Arab world looks set for sustained growth, lower unemployment and a manufacturing renaissance under president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equities | Foreign Institutions To Deepen Saudi Stock Market

Saudi Arabia | When the Saudi Arabian stock market, or the Tadawul as it is known, opens to direct investment by qualified foreign institutions for the first time on June 15, it will begin a transformation of the biggest bourse in the Middle East.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ESG | Corporate Interest Sprouts In Booming Green Bond Market

Capital Markets | Debt Issuance of green bonds, which raise funds to support environmentally beneficial activities, more than tripled last year, to $36 billion, according to the World Bank.

Banking

Fintech Breathes New Life Into The Finance Sector

Special Report | Fintech By putting customers first, fintechs are using technology to provide more responsive and cost-effective financial solutions for clients.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ford’s Swaps Vehicle Passes CFTC Inspection

Capital Markets | Derivatives Life may have just become a bit easier for finance executives at companies with captive finance units—which is to say, almost all automakers and scores of equipment manufacturers.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Payments | Enhancing Oversight On Expense Management

Special Report | Global Payments When it comes to enriching corporate card programs, the focus is on technologies and policies that can boost efficiency, visibility and controls.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Impact Investing: Doing Well And Doing Good

Global Salon | Global Finance sat down with Ommeed Sathe, vice president and head of impact investing at Newark, New Jersey-based insurer Prudential Financial, to discuss how corporate social responsibility and profitable investing can go hand in hand.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

India | Is The Bloom Off The Rose For Narendra Modi?

India | Indian prime minister Narendra Modi celebrated his one-year anniversary in office in May, but the jury is still out on whether he’ll justify the hope that has been invested his new government.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Is Moroccan FDI Economic Snake Oil?

Morocco | In recent years, Morocco has successfully attracted a growing flow of foreign capital, becoming the top foreign direct investment recipient in the Maghreb region (Northwest Africa), and one of the largest in the African continent.