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Credit Squeeze Comes for Main Street as Bankruptcies Surge
Rising bankruptcies reflect a credit squeeze driven by cautious banks, higher rates, and deteriorating borrower cash flows nationwide right now.
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Wall Street Jobs Data Tell Diverging Stories in May
The latest U.S. job numbers for Wall Street don’t line up. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Hormuz Bottleneck: Gulf Energy Has a ‘Plan B’
The Strait of Hormuz was once treated as an unavoidable pathway of global energy flows. Now, Gulf producers are in desperate need of a workaround.
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Digital By Design
Digitizing more than 80% of its retail banking services proved a timely strategic move for Sberbank, Russia's largest bank. During the pandemic, customers could access most banking services while socially distancing and the bank launched new services quickly that helped customers facing financial hardship and uncertainty.
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Visa, Mastercard Restart Business in Syria
Visa's and Mastercard's latest move signals early steps toward rebuilding a digital payments system amid major structural hurdles.
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Dangote’s IPO Tests African Capital Markets
Dangote Refinery’s initial public offering is shaping up to be one of the most historic capital markets events for the...
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Mega-Cap IPOs Make Major Waves for Index Investors
When mega-cap companies go public, index providers and investors will see it as dropping battleships into the old fishing pond....
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Industry Insider Takes Reins of HSBC’s India Private Bank
Industry veteran Gautam Anand took over as HSBC’s head of Global India, HSBC Private Bank at the end of April....
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Brazil Nixes Settlement for Stablecoin eFX
Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) has banned fintech and payment providers from settling overseas payments in stablecoins or crypto. With...
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CFOs Should Prepare for Long-Term Tariff Refunds
A massive $166 billion in corporate tariff refunds sounds nice, but could take years to process.
Technology
Why Corporate Treasuries Are Increasing AI Investments
A recent Bain & Company survey reveals that less than half (48%) of senior financial executives have seen improvements in...
Technology
Beware of Financial Scammers Wielding Deepfake Tech
Deepfake fraud is becoming a persistent, long-lived corporate risk, with synthetic voices and identities circulating for years undetected.
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Kenya’s Power Grid Limits Tech Growth
Kenya is positioning itself as Africa’s Silicon Savannah and its premier tech hub. Touting itself as a “full-package investment destination,”...