Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SPACs ,created in the US in the 1990s to help financial sponsors raise funds more quickly in capital markets, had suffered, until recently, from a weak IPO market and several failed acquisitions.

With an enticing yield of 6.75%, Iraq attracted $6.6 billion in orders for its $1 billion issue of five-and-a-half-year bonds in early August, its first independent bond sale in more than a decade.

Financial regulators the world over are beginning to take a closer look at digital currency Initial Currency Offers andcompaniesthat use them to raise funds.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Finance raised 17 billion riyals ($4.5 billion) in its first domestic sukuk issuance in late July.

A tsunami of technological progress is forcing risk-averse corporate finance executives to confront changes in the environment.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to be one of the first countries in the world to roll out the fifth generation of mobile networks, more commonly known as 5G.

The second phase of European Union’s 2007 Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II comes into effect startingJanuary 2018. It will not onlyextendthe scope of financial instruments under coverage but alsorequire extensive record keeping setting firms across the EU for a big compliance challenge.