Banking
Banks Weather Rising Interest Rates And Recession Fears
An improving economic environment and subdued inflation allow banks to search for new growth avenues. The post-pandemic inflation that...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SPACs Try For A Comeback
Is the SPAC back? Maybe, a little. As a group, special purpose acquisition companies have crashed and burned spectacularly. Some...
Banking
Challenging The Banks
Nonbanks have eaten into traditional banks’ marketplace. Can the older banks retake lost ground by simply becoming more agile? Once...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Southeast Asia Sees Venture Capital Drought
Southeast Asian economies survived the pandemic and post-pandemic pitfalls in solid shape. Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam still rank among the...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Venezuela: Deflation Strikes
Prices falling in Venezuela? Yes, for the moment. In February, President Nicolas Maduro’s ravaged economy saw its first month of...
Banking
Private Banks Prepare For The Great Wealth Transfer
A $72 trillion global avalanche of inheritance is coming. Are private banks and wealth managers up to meeting the next...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
China: The “Broker Butcher” Returns
The “Broker Butcher” is back at work in China. Will he clean up financial markets, or simply watch them sink?...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Borrowers Beware
Private credit is the flavor of the month among the world’s financial elite. Corporate borrowers should think carefully before tasting....
Banking
The State Of Global Banking: Favorable Winds, For Now
Central bank tightening in most large economies has enabled commercial banks to raise their lending rates, swelling interest income. That...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Ruble’s Slide Puts Nabiullina On The Hot Seat
Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullin deftly responded to Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine but it hasn't been enough to save the ruble.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Longtime Xi Loyalist Assumes The Economic Reins
New Chinese vice-premier He Lifeng has been a vocal proponent of the Greater Bay Area initiative and has worked with Xi Jinping since the 1980s.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Global Debt Levels Put Economies And Countries At Risk
Private and public debt levels—combined with rising interest rates—are clouding the economic horizon.