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.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
McKinsey Says Multiple, Smaller Deals Work Best
'Programmatic M&A'is the path that holds the most promise, according to the consultancy, as opposed to infrequent large deals which 'hurt value creation'.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SEC Kills Chinese Deal To Buy Chicago Exchange
Lack of transparency, including an inability to identify who would control the exchange, sink economically modest but politically heated transaction.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Telecom, Tech Deals Fuel Merger Boom In India
Political stability, a fast-growing economy and a sustained program of economic reformsare among the reasons for the feverish pace of takeover activity in the south Asian republic.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Venezuela Skirts US Sanctions By Issuing The Petro
To get around sanctions, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is issuing an oil-and-reserves-backedcryptocurrency. If it succeeds, the ICO should provide the government with access to $6 billion. But cryptos are dicey.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Expat CFOs Improve Reporting, Study Says, But Maybe Only In Europe
A Bocconi University analysis shows that a foreign CFO is likely to add a layer of investor protection. While anecdotal reports support this, the view from emerging markets suggests the global reality is not so straightforward.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Companies Brace To Put Leases On Balance Sheet
With deadlines only months away, treasury officers will need to improve their processes and leverage new technology to meet new IFRS and GAAP standards.
Banking
Samba Financial Group: Practical and Proud
Rania Nashar, CEO of Samba Financial Group, is the first female CEO of a listed commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. She talks about modernization in the kingdom and at the bank, as well as Samba’s role in supporting the reinvention of the national economy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cyprus Shores Up Financial Sector
As the Mediterranean island nation's economy has stabilized, so too have its banks.
Banking
Revamping Kuwait’s Stock Exchange
FTSE announced Kuwait’s forthcoming addition to the Secondary Emerging Markets list last September. What’s happened since?
Award Winners
Trade Finance: AI Brings Predictability in Shifting Times
Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins, vice president of business deposits and treasury solutions, personal and commercial banking at RBC, discusses changes in innovation and free trade.
Award Winners
Trade Finance: Delving Deep Into Data
Chris Laws, global head of product development, compliance and supply solutions for Dun & Bradstreet, explains how new technologies are providing ever deeper analysis to deliver reputational and financial risk mitigation