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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.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Companies Brace To Put Leases On Balance Sheet

With deadlines only months away, treasury officers will need to improve their processes and leverage new technology to meet new IFRS and GAAP standards.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Lebanon signs first oil and gas exploration contracts

French Total, Italian ENI and Russian Novatek won Lebanon’s first tender for hydrocarbon exploration and production. Operations start in 2019 in two offshore blocks, including one disputed by Israel.

Features

Digital China: March Of The Machines

Yuan Yulai, CEO of machine-based financial advisor Licaimofang, speaks about the coming dominance of robo-advisors in China’s wealth-management market.

Features

Digital China: New Wealth Gets Wise

Yihan Fang, CEO of Yirendai, a subsidiary of asset manager CreditEase, speaks about the growing sophistication in China’s wealth management.

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China’s Next Digital Revolution

Consumers have embraced digital technology to improve their lives. Now industry must figure out how digital tools can improve productivity.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Guatemala: Rule of Lawlessness

In this Northern Triangle nation, as elsewhere in Latin America, weighing the risks and rewards of foreign direct investment leads to difficult choices.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Asset Valuations | Shaping The Next Generation Of Corporate Leaders

Asset valuation is one of a chief financial officer’s core functions. CFOs are regularly asked about the value of a company’s shares, assets and subsidiaries, as well as that of companies and assets targeted for potential acquisition. Yet increasingly, companies ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cash Repatriation | US Tech Giants Absorb Impact Of Tax Reforms

Apple says it will make a “direct contribution” to the US economy of $350 billion in the next five years, creating more than 20,000 new jobs. The iPhone maker did not say, however, how much of that spending would ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange | Euro Batters Dollar

The dollar tumbled to a three-year, trade-weighted low in January, even as the 10-year US Treasury note yield rose above 2.6% for the first time since 2014. This drop confounded analysts, who forecasted a stronger dollar based on expectations ...