Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt Piling Up Faster Than Cash
Forget about the hoards of cash held by some US nonfinancial corporations. For most of them, their biggest worry may soon be their debt.
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
UK Could Exit Brexit
Britain might not leave the European Union after all. A lot of things have to happen to agree on a divorce that many seem to have changed their minds about.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ailing Lending Club Shakes Up Shadow Banking Boardroom
<strong>Trends | Shadow Banking</strong><br />
Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club’s founder, chief executive and public face, resigned abruptly in mid-May. His resignation casts a pall over not only the peer-to-peer lender that claims to be the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, but also the shadow banking industry as a whole.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corruption: Offer Jokes Instead Of Bribes
<strong>Management | Corruption</strong><br />
At the anticorruption summit held in London last month, world leaders pledged to fight tax dodging, boost transparency and redouble efforts to confiscate and repatriate stolen assets to many of the world’s poorest countries.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ECB Corporate Bond Buying Lures US Issuers
<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br />
US companies are rushing to borrow in European bond markets. They’re taking advantage of low interest rates on euro-denominated issues after the European Central Bank’s decision to start buying investment-grade corporate bonds in June—part of its economic stimulus program. Last year already set a record for corporate borrowing in Europe’s bond markets, where rates are significantly lower than in the US.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
From Azerbaijan To Zambia, Country Ratings Slide
<strong>Capital Markets | Sovereign Risk</strong><br />
Low energy and commodity prices and a global economy stuck in low gear have provoked a surge in sovereign ratings downgrades in the first three months of this year. And rating agencies anticipate another wave of downgrades if a wider global economic slowdown materializes.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Coke’s New Tech Formula
Coca-Cola’s director of international treasury services, Jim Aschmeyer, explains how a strong relationship with Citi aids innovation and cash management.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Treasury Transformation At Etihad Airways
Adam Boukadida, deputy treasurer for Etihad Airways, talks treasury transformation vision, goals and strategy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Innovators Q+A | Volvo’s Treasury Upgrade
Elisabeth Mosseen, group treasurer, and Eva Christianson, head of risk analysis and control at group treasury, both at Volvo Car Group, chart their treasury’s transformation from a division of Ford to a stand-alone outfit.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Market Braces For $2 Trillion In EM Debt
<strong>Trends | Emerging Markets</strong><br />
Emerging markets sovereigns and corporates will need to refinance up to $2 trillion of debt coming due in the next five years, as a result of extravagant borrowing earlier this decade when commodity prices were soaring and cheap financing was readily available.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Multinationals Need A Culture Shock
<strong>Management | Corporate Culture</strong><br />
Several recent financial and corruption scandals have forced multinationals to develop comprehensive corporate conduct and compliance programs.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Serial Inverters Curtailed As Global Reforms Move Forward
<strong>Trends | Inversions</strong><br />
The US Treasury Department’s recent rules against corporate inversions are intended to stop “serial inverters.”