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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Salon: Q&A With Emphasis Ventures CEO And Founding Partner Melissa Frakman

Melissa Frakman, CEO and founding partner of Emphasis Ventures, a global early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on India, speaks with Global Finance about digital infrastructure and fintech trends in what some economists believe will soon be the world’s third largest economy.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

What’s Spiking Sport Team Valuations? Q&A With Citi Head Of Sports Finance Ivo Voynov

Citi Private Bank has advised sports deals of all kinds for some 25 years. Ivo Voynov, who joined the firm in September from rival JPMorgan Chase & Co., talks to Global Finance about why the sector is attracting so much interest.

Transaction Banking

Updating America’s Archaic Payment System: Q&A With Vanderbilt Law School Professor Yesha Yadav

Vanderbilt Law School Professor Yesha Yadav speaks to Global Finance about payments infrastructure in the US and reforming the system.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner: Ascent Industries’ Bill Steckel

Joining Ascent Industries in April, Bill Steckel brought his five years as CFO at other companies and 20 years in operational finance, planning and treasury. He talks to Global Finance about how the infotech revolution and intense competition for talent have transformed the role of the CFO.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner: Amplifon’s Gabriele Galli

Gabriele Galli is chief financial officer (CFO) of Amplifon, an Italian hearing-care company that operates in 25 countries. The following is an edited transcript of his conversation with Global Finance.

Executive Interviews

Living In Interesting Times: Q&A With Causality Link CEO Pierre Haren

Pierre Haren, CEO of Causality Link, speaks to Global Finance regarding artificial intelligence’s rapid evolution.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Pfizer’s $43B Pursuit Of Seagen: Q&A With Séverine Piot-Deval

Pfizer’s $31 billion bond sale to fund its $43 billion acquisition of cancer drug maker Seagen is one of the largest in history. Healthcare expert Severine Piot-Deval discusses the deal with Global Finance.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CFO Corner: Q&A With Lamborghini’s Paolo Poma

Automobili Lamborghini's CFO Paolo Poma explains to Global Finance how his unusual career path from engineering to the C-suite prepared him to lead the company in an era of tighter credit conditions.

Executive Interviews

Taiwan: Strength Under Pressure

Leaders from the Central Bank of Taiwan (CBC) and five banks active on the island discussed post-Covid supply chain challenges, inflation, and tensions with ChinaduringGlobal Finance'srecent roundtable.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Venture Capital After SVB: Q&A With Kearney’s Ben T. Smith IV

Ben T. Smith IV, a longtime Silicon Valley executive and currently head of the Communications, Media and Technology practice atKearney,speaks toGlobal Financeabout the post-SVB venture capital industry and the pace of innovation.

Executive Interviews

Continuous Growth: Q&A With Mashreq Bank Group CEO Ahmed Abdelaal

Ahmed Abdelaal, Group CEO of Mashreq Bank, speaks to Global Finance about preparations for COP28 and the possibility of a recession.

Features

Looking Ahead: Q&A With Commercial Bank Of Qatar CEO Joseph Abraham

Joseph Abraham, CEO of Commercial Bank of Qatar, discusses the bank’s implementation of ESG principles and the effects of digital banking on the industry.