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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Waking Up To The MiFID II Compliance Challenge

The second phase of European Union’s 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II comes into effect startingJanuary 2018. It will not onlyextendthe scope of financial instruments under coverage but alsorequire extensive record keeping setting firms across the EU for a big compliance challenge.

News

AkzoNobel CEO Faces Shareholder Revolt

Newly appointed AkzoNobel CEO Thierry Vanlancker takes over the Dutch paint company at a time when it faces an ongoing battle with its biggest shareholder, Elliott Management, andseveralhostiletakeover attempts from US rival PPG Industries.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Klarna To Build On Customer Base With New Bank License

TheSwedish payments platform's huge customer base gives it an advantage as it expandsinto banking and other product lines.

Data

Partnering Strategically, Spending Smartly

Forming partnerships can be a good way for banks to quickly add new features, as long as they don’t get distracted from their long-term vision.

Data

Speed Or Safety?

As more companies outsource information management to the Cloud or colocation services, focus on data protection increases.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Delaware Mulls Rules For Distributed Ledgers

Delaware has proposed amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping and to keep track of stock transactions, the state’s latest effort to be a first mover when it comes to blockchain technology.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Reaping Interest Rewards With Raisin

The partnership of mobile-only bank N26 with German fintech Raisin allows the bank to offer its clients, initially in Germany but across the EU beginning next year, the chance to open savings accounts with just a few taps. As Raisin ...

Features

Digital Disruption And Creative Destruction

Global Finance rates the top financial innovations of the last 30 years, looking at where we are, where we’ve come from and how we got from there to here

Features

#2 Mobile Payments

Starbucks generates 27% of its US sales via mobile payments, as consumers opt for contactless coffee. While there were efforts to provide banking through cell phones in the late 90s, the transition, around 2007, from cellphones to smartphones—with their expanded ...

Features

#9 Blockchain

First developed in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto—whose identity remains a mystery—as a public ledger for all bitcoin transactions, blockchain is now outshining the cryptocurrency it underpins as it offers banks and others the benefits of a distributed ledger, i.e., an ...

Features

Equity Forever

Damian Glendinning, Lenovo’s treasurer, explains why the world’s biggest PC maker opted for a dual-tranche financing transaction using a perpetual security.

Awards

Flux Favors Innovation

It’s been another crazy year, with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump as US president, tensions building up with Russia, continued strife and displacement in Syria and rising tensions in Asia, all of which are affecting global markets.