Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Yield Bonds Crumbiling Not Crashing
The junk market is hurting. Experts predict the pain will continue, with defaults peaking a couple of years from now.
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Money Laundering: How Banks & Governments Can Defend Themselves
A Conversation with Dan Wachtler, President and CEO of IPSA International on the challenges of Anti-Money Laundering for Banks & Corporates and the growing role of foreign governments.
Banking
Global Finance Names The Best Derivatives Providers 2016
NEW YORK, February 15, 2016 – Global Finance magazine has named its 17th annual World’s Best Investment Banks and Derivatives Providers in an exclusive survey to be published in the April 2016 issue.
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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.
Country Report
Beijing’s Balancing Act: Growth vs. Reform
The question this year for investors in China is whether the government will continue moving toward a free-market economy—or keep grabbing the wheel.
News
Business Gets An App For That
Smart corporates are using mobile apps to collect real-time data, analyze it and feed it to employees, who can respond immediately. Companies that neglect these tools could find themselves at a disadvantage.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Commodity Prices Deal Mozambique A Blow
Mining and gas reserves made Mozambique a darling among foreign investors—until last year. Now the government needs to diversify.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Female CEOs Outperform, But Glass Ceiling Remains
<strong>Management | Corporate Governance</strong><br />
Despite various initiatives to get more women into the executive pipeline, the number of US corporations with a female CEO remains stuck in the low double digits.
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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 ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Gordhan Gets His Turn To Heal South Africa’s Woes
<strong>South Africa: </strong>After burning through two Finance ministers in 18 months—with the second having held the job for less than a week—South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, moved in mid-December to restore a measure of stability to the post.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
New Accounting Standard Shines Light On Leased Assets
<strong>Trends | Financial Accounting</strong><br />
A new international accounting standard that came into effect at the beginning of 2016 is already transforming how companies around the world think about their balance sheets.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Real Estate: Is The Party Over?
Peter Hayes, global head of invest-ment research for Prudential Real Estate Investors, joined Global Finance editors in New York to talk about which property markets look hot in 2016—and which look too hot.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Shrinking Lifeline For Trinidad and Tobago
The republic of Trinidad and Tobago girds for austerity as oil brings in less foreign exchange.
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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.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Taiwan’s New President To Focus On Growth, Not China
Tsai Ing-wen, leader of what was—until a couple of weeks ago—Taiwan’s opposition party, will become the island’s first female president this spring following a January 16 election in which she and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won control of both the presidency and the legislature from the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) party.