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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Kingdom’s Economy Sputters, Austerity Plan Unveiled

Low oil prices are taking a heavy toll on Saudi Arabia’s economy, which is facing even greater austerity under deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud’s plans to raise $100 billion a year from subsidy cuts and new levies.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

New US Inversion Rules To Have Impact Abroad

The US Treasury’s latest measure to keep US companies from reincorporating in lower-tax countries is its strongest effort yet to halt so-called “inversions,” and could have far-reaching consequences for multinationals.

Award Winners

Thriving On Disruption

The banking industry’s leading lights have largely adjusted their business plans to a world of tighter regulations, higher capital requirements and less leverage. Now, they are taking on new competitors by embracing the very information technology that has disrupted their business.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Bankers Say Negative Rates Could Harm Financial System

<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br /> The European Central Bank pushed its deposit rate deeper into negative territory in March, even as commercial bankers cautioned that such an unorthodox move could undermine their profitability and disrupt their role as financial intermediaries while doing little to boost lending or the economy.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China’s Onshore Bond Market Opens Up

<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br /> China’s $7.4 trillion onshore bond market, the third-largest in the world, is opening to foreign institutional investors in the latest step by China to integrate its capital markets into the global financial system.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Earnings Pressures May Spur Us Bank Mergers

<strong>Capital Markets | Mergers & Acquisitions</strong><br /> A need by banks to address weak earnings could result in increased merger activity in 2016, according to Fitch Ratings.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China’s Biggest Foreign Buy Could Set Pattern For Future

<strong>Capital Marktes | M&A</strong><br /> State-owned China National Chemical’s record $43 billion bid for Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta will be closely examined by a US government panel and other national regulators.

Features

Deals Abound Despite Oil Plunge

<strong>Middle East Investment Banking</strong><br /> M&A tops charts as transaction prices moderate across the region, industries consolidate, and key nations pursue privatization.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FED To Examine Negative Rates For Us

<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br /> Now that Japan has joined Europe in adopting negative interest rates, could below-zero rates become a policy option for the Federal Reserve?
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