Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Speed Takeover Bid For Rail Group
Italo Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatoriscrapped its IPO plans to accept a sweet, trans-Atlantic,private-equity deal worth €1.98 billion.
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Restructuring Pro Takes Over At Toshiba
Nobuaki Kurumatani, a former banker experienced in restructuring distressed companies,will be the first outsider to run the electronics giant in more than 50 years.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Worst-Case Brexit Could Cost UK $65 Billion
According to a Cambridge Econometrics report a “hard Brexit,” in which the country would leave both the EU customs union and the single market, could cost the UK almost half a million jobs and about $64.7 billion in investment by 2030.
News
Ferrero Buys Nestle’s US Candy Business
With the Nestle acquisition, Ferrero has now become the third-largest confectionary company in the United States.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
All-Stock Deals Plummet In Cheap-Debt Environment
It is a dramatic drop compared not just to the 1990s, when stock-for-stock deals accounted for over half of all mergers, but also to 2016, when the average equaled 23.9% by dollar value.
News
Portuguese Finance Minister Moving To Eurogroup
In a comparison with the Portuguese soccer star, Portuguese finance minister Mário Centeno has been dubbed “the Cristiano Ronaldo of Ecofin."
Banking
India | Reforms Give A Major Boost To Banking Business
Over the past year, India enforced reforms in eight of the 10 areas on which the rankings are based, showing improvement in nine of them.
Features
Surge Of Interest For Blockchain Developers
Job-data analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies also found a 115% increase from last year in postings for blockchain developers.
News
Mongolia Gets A New Tough Acting Prime Minister
Ukhnaa Khurelsukh was unanimously elected prime ministerin October after his predecessor, Jargaltulga Erdenebat, was ousted by parliament following corruption allegations.
Features
Turkey | Now Among World’s Top Donor Nations
Turkey has become the world’s most generous nation, going from development assistance recipient to top donor in just over a decade.
News
BP South Africa Appoints Black Woman CEO, Creates History
Priscillah Mabelane isthe first black woman in history to head a multinational oil major.
News
Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund To Undertake Major Review
The country's wealth fund is the largest in the world with a staggering $1 trillion valuation.