Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Listing: The IPO Bypass
Spotify is in the spotlight as its proposed direct listing tests the market for unusual financing. Private companies are watching the outcome—especially as markets turn volatile.
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Mali: A Cautionary Tale
While economic growth in Mali shows promise, escalating violence is scaring off foreign investors.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Banks, Spending On Themselves, Transform New York Skyline
Does JPMorgan Chase really need a new headquarters? Or is this just an expression of Jamie Dimon's edifice complex? And how likely are other banks to invest their own financial assets in constructing bigger and better offices rather than clients' projects?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Can Real-Time Payments Really Go Global?
While we are witnessing a global race for instant payments, this momentum isn’t likely to result in a global real-time payments solution anytime soon.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Funds Turn Toward Financial Data Companies
Sovereign wealth funds are looking to buy data—and they're buying the data companies to acquire them.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Speed Takeover Bid For Rail Group
Italo Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatoriscrapped its IPO plans to accept a sweet, trans-Atlantic,private-equity deal worth €1.98 billion.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
McKinsey Says Multiple, Smaller Deals Work Best
'Programmatic M&A'is the path that holds the most promise, according to the consultancy, as opposed to infrequent large deals which 'hurt value creation'.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SEC Kills Chinese Deal To Buy Chicago Exchange
Lack of transparency, including an inability to identify who would control the exchange, sink economically modest but politically heated transaction.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Telecom, Tech Deals Fuel Merger Boom In India
Political stability, a fast-growing economy and a sustained program of economic reformsare among the reasons for the feverish pace of takeover activity in the south Asian republic.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Venezuela Skirts US Sanctions By Issuing The Petro
To get around sanctions, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is issuing an oil-and-reserves-backedcryptocurrency. If it succeeds, the ICO should provide the government with access to $6 billion. But cryptos are dicey.
Banking
Humanistic Finance
At Global Finance’s annual private-bank awards dinner in Manhattan, talk revolved around how wealth can best serve people and create value worldwide.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Expat CFOs Improve Reporting, Study Says, But Maybe Only In Europe
A Bocconi University analysis shows that a foreign CFO is likely to add a layer of investor protection. While anecdotal reports support this, the view from emerging markets suggests the global reality is not so straightforward.