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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: DEAL KILLERS OF 2014

Mergers & Acquisitions | Management Amid the merger frenzy of 2014, a startling number of bids were killed. 2014 may have seen heady times for corporate acquirers, but it was also the year of the rebuffed suitor.

Banking

MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT BANKERS FIND SILVER LININGS

Market Focus | Middle East Investment Banking Although investment bankers remain cautious about Middle Eastern prospects in the wake of falling oil prices, M&A activity and debt issuance remain bright spots.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NEW TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE TO CHALLENGE TSX

Capital Markets | Stock Markets The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) will soon have direct competition from an alternative equity-trading platform, also to be located in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, known as Bay Street.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RATING AGENCIES: S&P SETTLEMENT UNLIKELY TO BRING ANY CHANGE FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS

Trends | Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed—dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it—Standard & Poor’s settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown. The price was relatively cheap, as these things go: $1.4 billion with no admission of wrongdoing.

Features

RISKY BUSINESS IN JORDAN

Frontier Markets Report | Jordan Jordan is working hard to build its attractiveness to foreign investors, but regional instability presents a serious downside.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

VENEZUELA: FREE-FLOATING CURRENCY UNLIKELY TO STAVE OFF DEFAULT

Milestones | Venezuela Venezuela’s introduction of a marginal free-floating currency system that will freely trade the US dollar and the bolivar seems unlikely to enlarge the country’s foreign exchange reserves or stem its growing external debt.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

McDonalds CEO: Brit Becomes The New “Big Mac”

McDonalds appointment of British-born Steve Easterbrook as its new CEO has both surprised and delighted analysts—concerned by the burger behemoth’s first annual decline in 30 years.

Award Winners

THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST IN TRADE AND SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE 2015

Awards Presentation | Amsterdam, Netherlands Global Finance held its Best Trade Finance and Supply Chain Finance Providers Awards Ceremony in Amsterdam in January—during the annual BAFT Europe Bank-To-Bank Forum. Leading corporate and financial executives from around the world were present to accept their awards and honor other recipients.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Brazil: Correcting Its Fiscal Slippage

In a presentation in New York on February 18—his first official visit to the US since his appointment—Brazil’s Finance minister Joaquim Levy said that Brazilians are learning by doing.
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