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Insurers’ Big Bet On Alternative Investments
Life insurance companies used to be conservative investors. For decades, they relied on long-term bonds—safe, steady, and predictable—to match their...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Overview
Investment bankers hope to keep the momentum going after an active 2024. For the investment banking industry, 2024 was a...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global And Country Winners
Best Investment Bank: BofA Securities Against the backdrop of a thriving year for global stock markets and increased activity in...
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High Employee Engagement and Shareholding Rate — What Is E.SUN’s Secret?
E.SUN FHC is unique in the banking industry. With no affiliation with family nor government agency, E.SUN is a banker’s bank - a bank that is owned by employees, and managed for customers. All employees can sing the corporate anthem by heart, and almost every employee owns shares of the company. These practices might seem unconventional, but they represent the spirits of a sustainable succession system that makes E.SUN built to last.
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global Winners By Sector
The top three sectors when it comes to dealmaking, according to McKinsey, are global energy and materials (GEM); telecom, media,...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Regional Winners
Advisers enjoy an uptick in M&As and IPOs despite geopolitical uncertainty; whether 2025 maintains the energy remains to be seen....
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Equities
Last year, investment banks correctly predicted a boom in stock issuance. This year, a trade war threatens to end the...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Debt
Debt markets were busy last year, but 2025 is off to a slow start as issuers take a wait-and-see approach....
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Risk Measurement and Mitigation: Need for a New Beginning
Credit risk is defined as the probability that a bank borrower or counterparty will fail to meet their obligations in accordance with agreed terms. The goal of credit risk management is to maximize a bank's risk-adjusted rate of return by ...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A
After two muted years, 2024 didn’t quite meet expectations; hopes for a busy 2025 are already wobbling. Persistent inflation and...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Infrastructure
The infrastructure sector is fertile ground for dealmakers, as producers around the world seek to expand. Throughout 2024, the infrastructure...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Bulgaria: Return To Growth
Of late, Bulgaria has been one of the fastest growing economies in southeastern Europe. But foreign investors are looking for...
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Financing The Future: Q&A With Standard Chartered’s Abbas Husain
Abbas Husain, Standard Chartered’s global head of Infrastructure and Development Finance, discusses the rapid pace of change and innovation in...
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Managing Liquidity in a Crisis
‘Stay at home. Stay safe’.
These are perhaps the words that will characterise 2020, a year dominated by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Businesses are dealing with major disruption to their supply chains, and domestic and cross-border trade remains severely impacted by extraordinary skews in demands and government-imposed ‘stay home’ regulations in countries around the world.
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Critical Minerals, Critical Moves: Q&A With BMO Capital Markets’ Ilan Bahar
Ilan Bahar, co-head of BMO Capital Markets’ Global Metals & Mining Group—winner of Best Investment Bank in Metals & Mining—considers...