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Carlos Slim Wants You To Work Less, Retire Later
<strong>Mexico | </strong>Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is advocating a massive shift to a three-day workweek, particularly for older employees.
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Eurozone Attracts Record Foreign Investment
<strong>Europe</strong> | Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe hit a record high in 2015 with 5,083 new cross-border projects, an increase of 14% from 2014, creating approximately 218,000 new jobs
Economics, Policy & Regulation
India: Landmark Reform To Unify Taxes
<strong>India</strong> | The Indian parliament’s adoption of a constitutional amendment bill has paved the way for the biggest tax reform in the $2 trillion economy’s history, as Narendra Modi’s government prepares to usher in a dramatic change in the tax regime: a single goods and services tax (GST) that subsumes all central, state and local levies.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Keeping Up With The Regulators
<strong>Regulations </strong>| Compliance in a shifting regulatory environment requires nimble responses.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Once Bitten, Twice Finance Minister
<strong>Indonesia |</strong>Can themuch-admired former Finance Minister of Indonesia, Sri Mulyani Indrawati,bring back the magic in her second tour in the post?
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Pots Of Gold, Leprechauns Or No
<strong>Ireland</strong> | Ireland has been a eurozonegrowth powerhousein recent years, and remains strong, despite Brexit.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Q&A: Pricing And Protecting Patents
Clement Naples, partner at Latham and Watkins, a global law firm specializing in intellectual property, visited Global Finance to talk trends in patent litigation, valuations and the role of IP in investment decisions.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Singapore Cracks Down To Save Its Reputation
<strong>Singapore </strong>| The Monetary Authority of Singapore is establishing a new team to bolster monitoring of financial institutions and enforcement of rules againstmoney laundering.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Technology As Pixie Dust
<strong>Cross-Border Payments</strong> | Magic is only for fairy tales, but new technologies promise a magical transformation in cross-border payments.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The State Of Transaction Banking Today
An overview of the "big picture" trends in treasury and cash management shows the total value of markets in specific sub-sectors.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
The World’s Richest Companies 2016: Global Cash 25
Global companies continue to hoard cash at record levels, as worrisome economic conditions hamper investment in operations and investors demand ever-increasing capital returns.
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Tokyo Bucks LDP, Elects First Woman Governor
<strong>Japan</strong> | Elected Tokyo’s first female governor, Yuriko Koike has made history in Japan. She ran as an independent in defiance of her party—the ruling Liberal Democratic Party—which supported the lesser-known Hiroya Masuda. Koike, 64 years old and a veteran politician, hopes to bring the city’s financial center back to its former glory.