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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FDI: OWNERSHIP RESTRICTIONS PUT THE BRAKES ON FOREIGN INVESTMENT

Management | Foreign Direct Investment FDI volumes are declining globally, as some national governments take a stronger stance against foreign ownership of their companies and land.

Banking

FINTECH: BANKS NEED TO PLAY CATCH-UP

Special Report | Banking Systems & Technology Keeping up with corporates’ increasingly sophisticated demands for more streamlined and well-integrated solutions is proving challenging.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FIVE MINUTES WITHAXEL MERK, MERK INVESTMENTS

Capital Markets | Q&A Axel Merk is president and chief investment officer of Merk Investments, manager of the Merk Funds.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FOREIGN EXCHANGE: CURRENCY PEGS THREATENED AS POLICY GOALS DIVERGE

Capital Markets | Foreign Exchange Currency pegs around the world are threatening to come unglued following the Swiss National Bank’s surprise move to drop the exchange rate floor of the euro versus the Swiss franc.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FRANCE: WINEMAKER PLANS IPO USING CROWDFUNDING

Capital Markets | Equity Capital Raising Burgundy vineyard Domaine Chanzy expects to be the first company to conduct an initial public offering using crowdfunding, which enables companies to raise money from members of the public, typically via the Internet.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

LATIN AMERICAN TRADE: A FIESTA WITHOUT A HANGOVER?

Regional Report | Latin America Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru are handling the drop in commodities prices better than the rest of Latin America.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: DEAL KILLERS OF 2014

Mergers & Acquisitions | Management Amid the merger frenzy of 2014, a startling number of bids were killed. 2014 may have seen heady times for corporate acquirers, but it was also the year of the rebuffed suitor.

Banking

MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT BANKERS FIND SILVER LININGS

Market Focus | Middle East Investment Banking Although investment bankers remain cautious about Middle Eastern prospects in the wake of falling oil prices, M&A activity and debt issuance remain bright spots.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NEW TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE TO CHALLENGE TSX

Capital Markets | Stock Markets The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) will soon have direct competition from an alternative equity-trading platform, also to be located in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, known as Bay Street.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

RATING AGENCIES: S&P SETTLEMENT UNLIKELY TO BRING ANY CHANGE FOR CORPORATE ISSUERS

Trends | Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed—dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it—Standard & Poor’s settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown. The price was relatively cheap, as these things go: $1.4 billion with no admission of wrongdoing.

Features

RISKY BUSINESS IN JORDAN

Frontier Markets Report | Jordan Jordan is working hard to build its attractiveness to foreign investors, but regional instability presents a serious downside.

Banking

SANTANDERS CLOUD GAMBIT: WILL MORE BANKS FOLLOW THEIR LEAD?

Trends | Global Banking On the surface at least, Spain’s Banco Santander and Cloud storage providers do not appear to have much in common.