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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ford’s Swaps Vehicle Passes CFTC Inspection

Capital Markets | Derivatives Life may have just become a bit easier for finance executives at companies with captive finance units—which is to say, almost all automakers and scores of equipment manufacturers.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Payments | Enhancing Oversight On Expense Management

Special Report | Global Payments When it comes to enriching corporate card programs, the focus is on technologies and policies that can boost efficiency, visibility and controls.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Israel’s Teva Bids $40 Billion For US Generic-Drug Rival

Capital Markets | M&A Pharmaceuticals In what could become Israel’s biggest cross-border M&A deal ever, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries made an unsolicited $40 billion offer to acquire Mylan, a Pennsylvania-based drugmaker registered in the Netherlands with operational headquarters in the UK.

Features

Myanmar | Blank Slate For Foreign Investors

Frontier Markets Report | Myanmar is wide open in terms of investment prospects, and its opportunities are luring investors—despite the risks.

Banking

Offshore Blues For Private Banking

Special Report | Private Banking Offshore banking, the booking and management of assets outside an individual’s country of domicile, has taken a beating since the financial crisis.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Pension Fund Managers Assailed On Many Fronts

Special Report | Pensions & Benefits Management Combating economic trends, regulators and even demographics, funds are forced to think outside the box.

Banking

Private Banking | Business Is Booming, Challenges Lurk

Special Report | Private Banking The pace of global economic growth may have slowed since the financial crisis, but the creation and concentration of private financial wealth has revved up.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Record Korean Financing Set For Brazil Steel Plant

Capital Markets | Project Finance Brazil’s multinational metals and mining group Vale has signed a $2.1 billion agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea.

Banking

Regional US Transaction Banks Walk A Fine Line

Special Report | U.S. Transaction Banking Dealing with the regulatory complexities faced by their larger peers and without some of the flexibility of their smaller brethren, US regional transaction banks are building international partnerships and investing in best-of-breed technology platforms in order to win, and hold on to, corporate clients.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulators Increase Scrutiny Amid Surge In Global M&A

Capital Markets | M&A Antitrust Antitrust authorities around the world are stepping up their merger-monitoring activities amid a boom in cross-border M&A. They’re increasingly requiring merging companies to divest assets to win approval for their deals. In some cases, complex requirements are causing corporates to abandon proposed combinations.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Russian Trade, On A Roller Coaster, Looks Set For Big Changes

Trends | FX Commodities Q&A Petr Grishin, head of macro research and chief economist for Eastern Europe at VTB Capital, discussed the ruble, oil prices and Russian trade with Global Finance.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Venezuela Completes $1 Billion Gold Swap With Citi

Commodities | Desperate for cash to purchase imports, oil-rich Venezuela pawned part of its gold reserves as collateral for a $1 billion loan from Citibank.