Capital Raising & Corporate Finance Archives

Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.

Click Here

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology And Treasury Management: Working Capital Management

THE WORKING CAPITAL TRANSFORMATION By Denise Bedell Companies are looking to technology to help them delve deeper into their working capital processes. The debate that has long raged over whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can compare ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management 2011

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Market Calm Amid Storm

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-yield bonds remained remarkably stable during the sell-off in global equity markets and the increase in global market volatility last month, but future gains in the prices of these below-investment-grade ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Sovereign Funds Boost Glencore

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Switzerland-based Glencore International, a commodities trading and mining company, could have timed its initial public offering better. Amid the steepest decline in commodity markets in years, Glencore was looking ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fast Favorites

SPOTLIGHT: FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING By Anita Hawser Technology is enabling faster and more-flexible trading in foreign exchange—and helping drive the rapid rise in daily trading volume. Erik Lehtis, president of Chicago-based Dynamic FX Consulting, has experienced firsthand ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Big Overseas Investments For China

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt China is planning major investments in foreign companies, including those in the US, in order to help turn its mountain of paper dollars and other currencies into hard assets and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Tech Mergers Show Smart Increase

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt An expanding global economy with a healthy appetite for smart technology and mobile devices is spawning a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector. Microsoft’s $8.5 ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDERS 2011

Global Finance names the World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2011 NEW YORK, May 17, 2011 Global Finance magazine has...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Issues Break Record

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS:CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-Yield Debt Issues Break Record Source: KDP Investment Advisors Corporations worldwide issued more high-yield debt in the first quarter of this year than in any opening quarter since records began ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: China, Russia Lead Capital Raising

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt China And Russia To Lead Capital Raising Using Depositary Receipts Companies based in Russia and China are extremely interested in listing overseas and probably will be the biggest issuers ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: USD Weakens As Eurozone Rates Rise

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWSFOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Dollar Weakens As Eurozone Rates Are First To Rise Differing monetary policy reactions to the rise in oil prices are driving currency values at the moment, while gains in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Deals Accelerated in First Quarter

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions rebounded in 2010, and the momentum appears to be carrying over into this year. The first three months of 2011 constituted the strongest quarter for ...