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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Harnessing Technology to Control Latin American FX Risk
From devaluation to revenue recognition, FX volatility creates significant challenges for companies operating in Latin America. With the right technology, companies can mitigate these risks and achieve greater control over their pricing strategies, says Rafael Bufacchi, Director of Finance at PrimeiroPay.
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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The future of banking is not only digital, it may be digital-only
Digitization didn’t just help banks transform; it pushed them to reimagine the business. With transactions migrating en masse to digital channels in the Covid pandemic, banks should not only speed up their transformation programs but also revisit the scope of their role in customers’ lives. Establishing digital-only proposition would set them up nicely for the digital age, at scale.
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.
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.