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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Book Review: The Billionaire’s Apprentice Misses Its Aim As Indian-American Morality Play

In a recent interview at the Asia Society, Anita Raghavan, author of the recently published The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Bezos Scores with WaPo’s Overfunded Pension Plan: Others Struggle to Close the Gap

August 23, 2013 – On the heels of his $250 million purchase of the Washington Pos t, Amazon founder Jeff...

Features

IMF Admits Greek Mistakes While Europe Sticks Its Head In The Sand

While the Greek economy remains too weak to meet the goals laid down in the current bailout package, a highly...

Banking

Waiting For Superman: Raghuram Rajan And The Overblown Expectations For Central Bankers

Ever since the financial crisis, when political stalemate enveloped the planet and the fate of the global economy seemed to...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Asia Wakes Up To A New Dawn Of Supply Chain Financing

Asia is often portrayed as a land of milk and honey, where liquidity and capital flow freely, and high levels...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Dented, Not Doomed, By Fed Easing

If you attended to the teeth gnashing and handwringing following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it is considering a gradual...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Croatia Finally Joins The EU Fold

Croatia becomes 28th member of the EU In 2004, when nine former Communist countries joined the EU, there were widespread...

Features

Slowing Of QE Could Be Good News For Corporate Cash Management

After about six years of quantitative easing (QE) by the US Federal Reserve System the European Central Bank (ECB) and...

Banking

Will Corporate Cost Of Capital Really Rise With Higher Bank Capital Requirements?

As night follows day, bankers warn that the macroeconomic sky will fall as a result of new rules that would...

Banking

Debt: 32-Year-Old Bond Rally Falters

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT ByGordon Platt US interest rates have been in a general declining trend since 1981, when...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil

BRAZILIAN PORTS OPEN TO PRIVATE INVESTORS By Antonio Guerrero The Dilma Rousseff administration signed into law new regulations that open the country’s ports to greater private-sector investments. Approved in June, the policies are expected to help attract ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

CHINESE SOLAR-PANEL MAKERS FACE TRADE TARIFFS IN EUROPE By Thomas Clouse Chinese companies face trade friction in Europe now that the European Commission has imposed tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The EU charges that Chinese companies are ...