Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Yield Bonds Crumbiling Not Crashing
The junk market is hurting. Experts predict the pain will continue, with defaults peaking a couple of years from now.
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Money Laundering: How Banks & Governments Can Defend Themselves
A Conversation with Dan Wachtler, President and CEO of IPSA International on the challenges of Anti-Money Laundering for Banks & Corporates and the growing role of foreign governments.
Banking
Global Finance Names The Best Derivatives Providers 2016
NEW YORK, February 15, 2016 – Global Finance magazine has named its 17th annual World’s Best Investment Banks and Derivatives Providers in an exclusive survey to be published in the April 2016 issue.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Aramco IPO May Be For Saudi Nationals Only
<strong>Capital Markets | Equity Offering</strong><br />
A potential partial privatization of Saudi Arabia’s state oil company, Saudi Aramco, would require the company to remove its veil of secrecy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Can Colombia Count On A Peace Dividend?
<strong>Trends | Peace Deals</strong><br />
Low oil prices are widening Colombia’s current-account deficit, dampening the confidence of foreign investors and dragging down the economy.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Can The Renminbi Save Zimbabwe From Hyperinflation?
<strong>Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange</strong><br />
Locals as well as visitors to Zimbabwe will soon be able to walk into shops and pay for purchases in renminbi.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
China’s Economic Reforms Ignite Boom In M&A Deals
<strong>Capital Markets | Mergers & Acquisitions</strong><br />
In an effort to boost the country’s sagging economic growth, China is consolidating key industries, hoping to make them more efficient ahead of eventual partial privatizations.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EC Orders Belgium To Recoup Money Lost In Illegal Tax Breaks
<strong>Trends | Taxation</strong><br />
As part of a crackdown on generous tax incentives across the European Union, in January the European Commission (EC) demanded Belgium claw back €700 million ($762 million) in tax breaks from at least 35 European firms.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Female CEOs Outperform, But Glass Ceiling Remains
<strong>Management | Corporate Governance</strong><br />
Despite various initiatives to get more women into the executive pipeline, the number of US corporations with a female CEO remains stuck in the low double digits.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Grade Corporate Debt Draws Safe-Haven Buyers
<strong>Capital Markets | Corporate Bonds</strong><br />
Demand for investment-grade corporate debt seems insatiable, even as investors shun riskier high-yield bonds.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Yield Bonds Crumbling Not Crashing
The junk market is hurting. Experts predict the pain will continue, with defaults peaking a couple of years from now.
Banking
International Investors Decry Portuguese Bank Bail-In
<strong>Capital Markets | Fixed Income</strong><br />
A bail-in provision, which places the onus on bondholders and other investors to write down their holdings in the event of winding up a troubled financial institution within the European Union, came into effect on January 1, 2016.