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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

‘SIFI’ Label For Nonfinancial Firms In Jeopardy

Trends | Financial Regulation American insurance giant MetLife has doubled down on its efforts to skirt the heavier regulatory burden that comes with being labeled a Systemically Important Financial Institution.

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.

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.

Payments Go Digital — The Rapid Transformation of Inbound and Outbound Payments

NEW YORK, February 15, 2016 – Global Finance magazine has named its 17th annual World’s Best Investment Banks and Derivatives...

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.

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.

Banks Must Embrace New Models To Build Treasurers’ Trust

Corporate treasurers are aware that they must navigate an increasingly complex environment, the BCG and BNP Paribas 2018 Corporate Treasury Survey has revealed. As well as facing new risks – like cyber security, which the survey shows now ranks among ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Female CEOs Outperform, But Glass Ceiling Remains

Management | Corporate Governance 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.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Gordhan Gets His Turn To Heal South Africa’s Woes

South Africa: 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

Trends | Financial Accounting 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.

Mutual Benefits: The Inside Story Of Itas’ Ground-Breaking Virtual Accounts Implementation

In February 2018, Gruppo ITAS Assicurazioni (Itas), a leading mutual insurance company in Italy, became one of the first insurance companies in Europe to initiate a virtual account structure for its incoming payments – setting a benchmark in terms of ...

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.