Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Dealmaking Declines Despite China’s Record Overseas Buying
Following a record-breaking year for worldwide mergers and acquisitions, dealmaking declined to a two-year low in the first quarter of 2016.
China
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Award Winners
Internationalization Picks Up Speed
Bank of China, the fourth-largest bank in the world, has been an ener-getic leader in expanding overseas. In an interview with Global Finance, Chen Siqing, the bank’s president, spoke about internationalization efforts and the importance of overseas growth.
News
Can New Chinese Regulator Stabilize Markets?
<strong>Newsmakers | China</strong><br />
Liu Shiyu, who became the new head in mid-February, has an impressive pedigree. But the challenges he faces will require nothing short of mastery.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Dalian Wanda Creates World’s Biggest Theater Chain
<strong>Trends | Movies</strong><br />
China’s richest man goes to Hollywood and buys it.
Country Report
Beijing’s Balancing Act: Growth vs. Reform
The question this year for investors in China is whether the government will continue moving toward a free-market economy—or keep grabbing the wheel.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China’s Economic Reforms Ignite Boom In M&A Deals
<strong>Capital Markets | Mergers & Acquisitions</strong><br />
In an effort to boost the country’s sagging economic growth, China is consolidating key industries, hoping to make them more efficient ahead of eventual partial privatizations.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China’s New FX Regime
Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets
The renminbi’s entry into the International Monetary Fund’s basket of currencies, the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), will require China to have a more flexible exchange rate.
Award Ceremonies and Events
Presenting: Stars Of China 2015
Beijing, China, November 17, 2015
Global Finance honored the best domestic and foreign banks and renminbi service providers operating in China at its annual Stars of China ceremony.
Banking
Chinese E-Commerce Companies Biggest Threat To Banks
Trends | Fintech
China’s Big Three Internet and e-commerce companies—Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—are so big they are referred to collectively as BAT, and all three have received banking licenses and scaled up their e-commerce and finance platforms.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Free To Use, But Not To Trade
Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange Controls
In early November, Chinese Communist Party leaders announced plans to make the renminbi a “freely tradable and usable currency” by 2020—when the latest five-year development plan is set to finish—according to a statement by the party’s Xinhua News Agency.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Modi’s India Passes US & China In FDI
India seems to be on course with economic reforms under the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi, achieving a significant landmark as it moved ahead of the US and China in the foreign direct investment (FDI) sweepstakes.
Features
Value and Number of Cross-border M&A by Region/Country 2011-2013
Emerging markets overtook developed markets both in terms of sales and purchases of foreign acquisitions - accounting for 56% of total cross-border transactions in 2013.