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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trump Tariffs Halt IPO Deals In US

Several firms have suspended IPO plans, and merger activity has slowed following President Trump’s imposition of global tariffs, fueling uncertainty across US dealmaking markets.

Expert Perspectives

OCBC: Leveraging Digital Cash Management Tools for 24/7 Banking

As financial transactions continue to digitize, it’s become even more important for banks to help level the playing field for customers by providing small and medium enterprises with sophisticated cash management tools that were once mostly the domain of large, multinational corporations.

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World’s Best Banks In The Caribbean 2025

The Caribbean economies have been broadly hit by slowing remittances and a cooling internal labor market. GDP for the Caribbean...

Corporate Banks Transform Digitally for Post-Covid

While retail banking has been in the spotlight of the Covid-19 impact on banks, corporate banking has also been significantly, if not more, affected by the pandemic.

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World’s Best Banks in Western Europe 2025

Building on a profitable and dynamic 2023, when high interest rates buoyed bank lending margins, most Western European banks had...

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World’s Best Banks in Central and Eastern Europe 2025

The banking industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) faced a particularly challenging 2024, marked by a highly fluid interest...

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World’s Best Banks in Middle East 2025

The country winners for Best Banks in the Middle East region continue to aggressively implement a broad range of initiatives...

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World’s Best Banks in Africa 2025

African Banks ave operated in key markets outside the continent mainly through representative offices. Today, a shift is taking place....

Top Priorities for 2020: Time to Future Proof Treasury

Companies worldwide face an environment of change. Global supply chains are being reconfigured in response to a surge in protectionism and trade interventions.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Brazil’s Agricultural Export Bonus

Donald Trump's new global tariff regime could be great for Brazil, it turns out. Here's why.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Investing In Lawsuits

Think that the class action plaintiffs' attorney has a good case? Now you can invest in it, says James Koutoulas, CEO of JurisTrade, which he calls "the first secondary marketplace for litigation assets."

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World’s Best Banks In Central America

Amid a slowdown in remittances and a weaker-than-expected gain in tourism, economic growth in Central America lost steam in 2024,...

Banking

Germany Approves UniCredit Stake In Commerzbank

Last month, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office approved Italy’s second-largest lender’s plan to purchase a major stake in state-backed Commerzbank.

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.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Ghana: Waiting for FDI

Ghana is picking up the pieces from its 2022 debt default. Political stability and business- friendly policies help, but foreign investment has not yet recovered.