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Panelist Profile | Mayank Mishra of Citi
Panelist Profile – Mayank Mishra of Citi | Digital Bank Conference and Best Digital Bank Awards 2015
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Panelist Profile | Ruchir Rodrigues of Barclays Bank
Panelist Profile | Ruchir Rodrigues - Managing Director, Digital Banking & Commercial Performance at Barclays Bank | Digital Bank Conference and Best Digital Bank Awards 2016
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ailing Lending Club Shakes Up Shadow Banking Boardroom
<strong>Trends | Shadow Banking</strong><br />
Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club’s founder, chief executive and public face, resigned abruptly in mid-May. His resignation casts a pall over not only the peer-to-peer lender that claims to be the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, but also the shadow banking industry as a whole.
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Bangladesh: Full Of Potential
The fast-growing nation is actively seeking FDI, but foreign investors must contend with endemic corruption and layers of bureaucracy.
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China Battles Aging And Debt
Arthur Kroeber, head of research and founding partner of Gavekal Dragonomics, spoke with Global Finance about China’s politics, its markets and its future role in the global economy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corruption: Offer Jokes Instead Of Bribes
<strong>Management | Corruption</strong><br />
At the anticorruption summit held in London last month, world leaders pledged to fight tax dodging, boost transparency and redouble efforts to confiscate and repatriate stolen assets to many of the world’s poorest countries.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
ECB Corporate Bond Buying Lures US Issuers
<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br />
US companies are rushing to borrow in European bond markets. They’re taking advantage of low interest rates on euro-denominated issues after the European Central Bank’s decision to start buying investment-grade corporate bonds in June—part of its economic stimulus program. Last year already set a record for corporate borrowing in Europe’s bond markets, where rates are significantly lower than in the US.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
From Azerbaijan To Zambia, Country Ratings Slide
<strong>Capital Markets | Sovereign Risk</strong><br />
Low energy and commodity prices and a global economy stuck in low gear have provoked a surge in sovereign ratings downgrades in the first three months of this year. And rating agencies anticipate another wave of downgrades if a wider global economic slowdown materializes.
Banking
Islamic Finance Is Gaining Ground—And Sophistication
Still finding its way onto the broader global stage, Islamic finance is expanding its reach and rising to new heights in delivering added value to consumer and business markets alike.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Market Braces For $2 Trillion In EM Debt
<strong>Trends | Emerging Markets</strong><br />
Emerging markets sovereigns and corporates will need to refinance up to $2 trillion of debt coming due in the next five years, as a result of extravagant borrowing earlier this decade when commodity prices were soaring and cheap financing was readily available.