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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global And Country Winners
Best Investment Bank: BofA Securities Against the backdrop of a thriving year for global stock markets and increased activity in...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global Winners By Sector
The top three sectors when it comes to dealmaking, according to McKinsey, are global energy and materials (GEM); telecom, media,...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Regional Winners
Advisers enjoy an uptick in M&As and IPOs despite geopolitical uncertainty; whether 2025 maintains the energy remains to be seen....
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Equities
Last year, investment banks correctly predicted a boom in stock issuance. This year, a trade war threatens to end the...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Debt
Debt markets were busy last year, but 2025 is off to a slow start as issuers take a wait-and-see approach....
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A
After two muted years, 2024 didn’t quite meet expectations; hopes for a busy 2025 are already wobbling. Persistent inflation and...
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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Infrastructure
The infrastructure sector is fertile ground for dealmakers, as producers around the world seek to expand. Throughout 2024, the infrastructure...
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Sukuk, Sustainability, And Strategic Growth: Q&A With KFH Capital CEO Abdulaziz N. Almarzooq
Abdulaziz N. Almarzooq, CEO of KFH Capital—winner of Best Investment Bank in Frontier Markets and in Kuwait—shares his outlook on...
Banking
South Africa: Standard Bank’s Deputy CEO Bolts To Rival Absa
South Africa’s banking industry found itself in an uproar the night of March 16, when the heir apparent of its...
Banking
BBVA Takeover Of Banco Sabadell Advances
The standoff surrounding Spanish bank BBVA’s hostile takeover of Banco Sabadell remains in limbo. BBVA, however, is not relenting, describing...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ethiopia: A Stock Market Relaunch Heralds Economic Transformation
For over five decades, Ethiopia held the dubious distinction of being Africa’s second most populous nation and one of the...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Tanzania: East Africa’s New Powerhouse
Tanzania’s socioeconomic transformation drives economic dominance by attracting substantial investments and dominating intraregional trade. Tanzania is undergoing eye-catching socioeconomic transformation....