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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Eli Lilly Issues Rare 40-Year Bond

Eli Lilly is making waves in the corporate debt market with a $6.75 billion multi-tranche bond sale that includes a rare 40-year note: an unusual move for a pharmaceutical company. Most corporate bonds mature in five to 30 years.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Global Salon With Drew DeLong: New US Industrial Policy Starts Taking Shape

Drew DeLong, global lead of Geopolitical Dynamics at consultant Kearney, advises executives and board directors on navigating transnational instability and other global risks to their organizations. With a career start in the White House and at the State Department during the first Trump administration, DeLong joined Kearney in 2021. He offers his take on tariffs, the US-China relationship, an EU–US trading bloc, and the makings of a new state capitalism.

Insurance

Private Equity’s Growing Role In Insurance: Rewards And Risks

As PE firms expand their presence in the insurance business and insurers hold more PE assets, risk concerns are rising and regulators are taking note.

Winner Insights

Driving Corporate Client Success In Real-Time: Q&A with Citi’s Naveed Anwar

Naveed Anwar, Citi’s global head of Platforms and Data Services, discusses enhancing client experience in a real-time environment.

Data

Richest Countries in the World 2025

Many of the world’s richest countries are also the world’s smallest: the pandemic, the global economic slowdown and geopolitical turmoil have barely made a dent in their huge wealth.

Banking

Ripple In Banking License Push

Crypto company Ripple has applied to US regulators for a national bank charter, as the distinction between digital asset firms and traditional financial institutions becomes increasingly blurred.

Transaction Banking

Tariffs Backfire? Trade Truce Extended As China Surges, US Still Imports

Fears about US tariffs hurting China’s economy were overblown. New customs data show that China posted a record $683.5 billion trade surplus this year, with July exports up 7.2% on a year-over-year basis, ahead of economists’ expectations.

Technology

How Scale AI Founder Wang Won Meta’s AI Crown

Before Meta inked its $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, its founder, Alexandr Wang, had already formed a close relationship with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Technology

US Sets For Stablecoin Explosion

The Act permits insured depository institutions and other regulated entities to issue stablecoin in the US. Corporate treasurers will soon...

Executive Interviews

Christopher Hodge, Natixis: Inside The Economic Crosswinds

Christopher Hodge, chief US economist at investment bank Natixis, shares his thoughts regarding the forces shaping the US economy. With a career spanning the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Department of the Treasury, and hedge funds, he offers a rare public and private perspective on today’s policy-driven landscape, the growing risk of an economic slowdown, and how recent policy decisions may be making it worse.

Transaction Banking

Will Reshoring Survive Trump’s Shifting Tariff Policy?

Can companies realistically pivot their manufacturing based on policy winds, or is this strategy more complicated than policymakers suggest?

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Dominican Republic: The Caribbean’s Economic Diamond In The Rough

Capitalizing on natural resources and a prime geographic location, the island nation considers a host of opportunities to expand exports and encourage foreign investment.