Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cash Stress
Banks and governments are trying to provide enough financial support to avoid economic collapse, but some businesses won’t make it.
Features
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Banking
Demanding Customers
Under Covid-19, private banking clients in Africa are demanding more advice—especially on foreign exchange and commodities.
Banking
ESG Investing Meets The Covid Challenge
Environmentally friendly investments attracted new interest in a brutal first quarter. But there are still plenty of skeptics.
Banking
Future Uncertain
The MENA region is rapidly minting millionaires, but the Covid pandemic and a generational shift in ownership of wealth promise changes in how it’s invested and in what.
Banking
Getting Ahead Of The Curve
A crisis may spell opportunity, but it’s still a crisis. Look for digital acceleration and further consolidation as the post-Covid world takes shape.
Features
Getting Ahead Of The Pack
With fintechs and a technologically advanced population, Asian private banks look highly competitive—if they can surmount the Covid crisis.
Banking
High Drama And Low Prices
Declining stock markets spell opportunities for family offices. But with some countries responding to the Covid-19 crisis better than others, geography matters.
Banking
Powerhouse Banks Raise The Stakes In China
As foreign firms expand with majority stakes, formerly dominant Chinese domestic banks look for ways to maintain their edge.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
What Future For SMEs?
With lockdown easing in many places, small and midsize enterprises can get back to business; but they face huge hurdles.
Features
Necessity Gives Birth To Invention
How governments and banks huddled to keep liquidity and connectivity up as the pandemic hit the world economy.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Pandemic Strengthens African Bank Digitization
Within Sub-Saharan Africa, mobile money providers have waived or reduced transaction fees while governments are encouraging digital payments as a strategy to wean off person-to-person contact.