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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Companies Lock In Low Rates For 100 Year Bonds And Longer

Capital Markets | Debt Jaws dropped in June, when scandal-plagued Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, announced plans to come to market with a 100-year bond. Who in their right mind would lend $2.5 billion for a century to an emerging markets company that in April wrote off $17 billion in overvalued assets and billions more in bribes?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Currency Swings Squash Quarterly Earnings

Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange The surging dollar, falling euro and plunging emerging-markets currencies had a record $32 billion negative impact on the earnings of companies in North America and Europe in the first quarter, according to Scottsdale, Arizonabased FiREapps, which helps corporations measure and manage foreign exchange exposure.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Diversification And Data

At the beginning of the summer, credit insurance company Coface issued its monthly list of upgrades and downgrades of country risk.

News

Dorsey Retakes Helm As Twitter Looks For New CEO

Newsmakers | United States An important C-suite reshuffle is taking place in the world of social networking sites, and it may offer a glimpse into the future of the industry as a whole.

Banking

Driving Change In Bank Relationship Management

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Bank Relationship Management Basel III and other regulatory developments are causing a sea change in bank-corporate relationships. It is up to corporate treasurers to lead that process.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Erdoans Presidential Ambitions For Turkey Stymied

Newsmakers | Turkey It has been said that ultimately all political careers end in failure, but until June 7, few observers were expecting this maxim to be true, quite yet, of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoan.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

European Commission To Streamline & Strengthen Tax Regime

Management | Tax Policy In an effort to clamp down on tax avoidance by multinationals, the European Commission has announced plans to revive a proposal to unify the corporate tax base across Europe.

Banking

FinTech: Will Blockchain Enable Better Banking?

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Fintech–Blockchain Technology Freed from bitcoin, could the blockchain, or blockchain lite, become the underlying infrastructure behind better banking?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

First Digital Corporate Bond Uses Blockchain Technology

Capital Markets | Debt Overstock.com, a Utah-based online retailer, issued the first digital corporate bond using blockchain technology—the same technology that supports cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

Award Winners

Focus On Broad Relationship, Right Price

In a conversation with Global Finance, Mark Kerns, head of investor services at Standard Bank, describes how booming interest in Africa, led by South Africa and Nigeria, is reshaping the continent’s capital markets.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Forging New Economies

GCC Regional Report 2015 | Special Economic Zones Special economic zones are allowing GCC countries to diversify their economies away from oil and provide jobs to their citizenry.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fostering Fintech Innovation

SIBOS Supersection 2015 | Fintech – Innovation Centers In today’s virtual world, fintech development can take place anywhere. With funding for start-ups split 50:50 between traditional financial centers and elsewhere, the race is on to attract the hottest young firms.