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INSURERS OFFER LONGEVITY HEDGES TO DE-RISK PLANS

MANAGEMENT | PENSIONS As people live longer, many companies are discovering that they have to pay pension benefits to retirees for longer than they had expected. Insurance companies are stepping in with new products that can help take this “longevity risk” out of corporate defined-benefit pension plans.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A’S BIG YEAR IS LITTERED WITH BROKEN DEALS

CAPITAL MARKETS FOCUS |MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Mergers and acquisitions in 2014 are being announced at the fastest pace since the financial crisis of 2008–2009, but broken deals are also setting records for the same period.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MOROCCO: STABLE, AND WELL-SITUATED

FRONTIER MARKETS REPORT | MOROCCO Morocco boasts solid outward FDI, geopolitical stability and proximity to key markets, but corruption is commonplace.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

PUTTING THE BREAKS ON GLOBAL TRADE

DEAR READER Do ongoing conflicts and increasing geopolitical tensions represent a threat to globalization, or are they simply redesigning the map of the world?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RUSSIA: FRICTION WITH THE WEST, NEW TIES WITH THE EAST

Events in Ukraine have changed the outlook for Russia. Now the country faces choices about its global role that could affect the rest of the world for decades. Which path will it take?

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SAUDI EXCHANGE OPENING WILL INCREASE RIYADH’S IMPORTANCE

CAPITAL MARKETS | MIDDLE EAST EQUITY Riyadh, the Saudi capital, has already built a new financial district, named after King Abdullah, but its 42 new skyscrapers stand largely empty. That could change following the decision by the government in July to allow foreign financial institutions to invest directly in listed shares, starting in the first half of 2015.

Banking

SQUARE ONE FOR BANKS’ LIVING WILLS

TRENDS | US BANKING

Banking

TRANSACTION BANKING: THE NEW NORMAL

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | GLOBAL TRANSACTION BANKING With transaction banks in a state of global change, what is the impact for corporates?

Banking

TREASURY & CASH 2014: STILL ON THE SIDELINES

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT | ABOUT THE SUPPLEMENT I would like to say that there has been a big change over the past year in terms of how companies are making use of their cash. But that is not the case.

Banking

UPSTART BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK TAKES ON THE IMF

THE BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa now have something more in common than rapidly developing economies that have recently stalled. In July they gave life to the New Development Bank (NDB), the first multilateral institution controlled by developing countries.

Banking

US EX-IM BANK FACES AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

UNITED STATES In its 2013 report to Congress, the Export-Import Bank of the United States says that its “overriding mission is to create and sustain American jobs by supporting US exports.” But that very mission is under threat, with House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling, among others, seeking to abolish the bank.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

WALGREENS DUMPS INVERSION AS OBAMA BERATES “DESERTERS”

MANAGEMENT | TAX PLANNING Gregory Wasson, president and CEO of Walgreen, says the company “concluded it was not in the best interest of shareholders to attempt to re-domicile outside the US” to cut its tax bill.