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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CEO Pay Disclosure Shadows Public Companies

SEC & Executive Compensation | Five years after the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act, several of its controversial corporate governance provisions on executive compensation continue to wend their way through the system.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Chilean Economy | All Eyes On Valdés To Spur Growth

Chile | For years Chile has been recognized as one of the best-performing emerging markets in the world. But a combination of external and internal factors have changed that.

Country Report

Egyptian Economy Turns As Reforms Take Hold

Country Report | Egypt Egypt may be on the verge of a major turnaround, as the most populous country in the Arab world looks set for sustained growth, lower unemployment and a manufacturing renaissance under president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ford’s Swaps Vehicle Passes CFTC Inspection

Capital Markets | Derivatives Life may have just become a bit easier for finance executives at companies with captive finance units—which is to say, almost all automakers and scores of equipment manufacturers.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Payments | Enhancing Oversight On Expense Management

Special Report | Global Payments When it comes to enriching corporate card programs, the focus is on technologies and policies that can boost efficiency, visibility and controls.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

India | Is The Bloom Off The Rose For Narendra Modi?

India | Indian prime minister Narendra Modi celebrated his one-year anniversary in office in May, but the jury is still out on whether he’ll justify the hope that has been invested his new government.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Israel’s Teva Bids $40 Billion For US Generic-Drug Rival

Capital Markets | M&A Pharmaceuticals In what could become Israel’s biggest cross-border M&A deal ever, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries made an unsolicited $40 billion offer to acquire Mylan, a Pennsylvania-based drugmaker registered in the Netherlands with operational headquarters in the UK.

Country Report

New Opportunities For Spanish Political Parties

Country Report | Spain The era of absolute majorities in Spanish politics is over.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Nicola Sturgeon, A Scottish Thorn In David Cameron’s Side

United Kingdom | Many questions are still being asked about David Cameron’s dramatic win on May 7. How did opinion polls, which predicted a tight race between Conservatives and Labour and even a Labour win, get it so wrong?

Banking

Offshore Blues For Private Banking

Special Report | Private Banking Offshore banking, the booking and management of assets outside an individual’s country of domicile, has taken a beating since the financial crisis.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulators Increase Scrutiny Amid Surge In Global M&A

Capital Markets | M&A Antitrust Antitrust authorities around the world are stepping up their merger-monitoring activities amid a boom in cross-border M&A. They’re increasingly requiring merging companies to divest assets to win approval for their deals. In some cases, complex requirements are causing corporates to abandon proposed combinations.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Renminbi | The Goal Of Convertibility

The European Union is still debating the nature of its common currency, the position of non-eurozone EU members like the UK, and the future of stressed eurozone countries like Greece. But the situation in other parts of the world is quite different.