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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Paramount Pursues WBD While Netflix, Comcast Circle

Warner Bros Discovery, the media conglomerate behind HBO, CNN, and the Warner Bros film studio, is exploring a sale—just three years after WarnerMedia and Discovery combined to form the unified giant.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

LG Electronics India’s IPO Tops Parent In Value

LG Electronics India Limited’s initial public offer sparked frenzied activity, quickly rising to a market capitalization of $13 billion—surpassing its parent, LG Electronics of South Korea, valued at $9.4 billion.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Swiss-Based Coca-Cola Bottler Expands Footprint

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company plans to acquire a 75% controlling stake in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) for $2.6 billion from The Coca-Cola Company and Gutsche Family Investments. The transaction is expected to close in early 2026, pending regulatory approvals.

Leading by example – and innovation – in sustainable finance

“Sustainability is in our DNA,” says Hacina Py, who was recently appointed as Societe Generale’s Chief Sustainability Officer. They have been committed as a Group for a long time as they were one of the first banks to join the ...

Transaction Banking

Citi: Bringing Blockchain to Tomorrow’s Treasury

Corporate treasurers are looking to do more with less, and in real-time.

Private Credit

What Is Private Credit And Who Uses It?

How has private credit grown in importance since the Great Financial Crisis? What is the current market size in the US and other regions?

Private Credit

How Private Credit Fills The Financing Gap For Corporates?

How does private credit meet various financing needs for companies that often can’t access the syndicated loan market?

Private Credit

Who Provides The Capital Behind The Private Credit Boom?

Which investors supply the majority of the capital for private credit?

Transformation for a New Market Reality

Disruptive forces are increasingly defining Russia’s banking landscape. Amid the rapid pace of digitalisation, business models – and customer expectations – are changing. Corporate initiatives to create their own ecosystems have focused on identifying synergies and new niches, developing products ...

Private Credit

Why Banks And Private Equity Firms Are Both Competing And Collaborating In Private Credit?

Why are banks both increasingly cooperating and competing with PE firms in providing private credit?

Private Credit

Why Regulators Are Watching Banks’ Growing Exposure To Private Credit?

What is the current state or regulation of the sector worldwide? Why are bank regulators worried about banks’ increasing involvement in private credit?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Developers On AI: Trust But Verify

Despite its broad adoption, AI raises questions amongst the coding community.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Google’s $15 Billion Bet On India’s AI Future

When Google announced its $15 billion investment in India on October 14—the company’s largest commitment to the subcontinent to date—it pointed to more than just a corporate expansion.

FinTech Growth in MENA Spurred by Qatar, the New Home for FinTech in the Region

Prime markets for FinTech in the Middle East Considered an unsaturated market, the Middle East has become in recent years an attractive destination for FinTechs due to its large unbanked or underbanked young population, high cash usage, and recent regulatory ...

Sustainable Finance

Coal Takes A Back Seat

A decade after the landmark Paris Agreement, renewable energy has surpassed coal to become the world’s leading source of electricity.