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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Hong Kong: Pension Authority Warns Of US Debt Selloff

Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) instructed the city’s fund managers last month to prepare for possible fallout from Moody’s recent reduction of its US Treasury debt rating from Aaa to Aa1.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Canada: Carney Crowns First-Ever AI Minister

Canada last month named its first-ever AI minister, joining a list of countries that already includes the United Arab Emirates, France, and Taiwan.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kenya: Capital Requirement Rule to Trigger Bank Mergers

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) plans to lift its 10-year ban on issuing new banking licenses on July 1.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Appeals Court Pauses Ruling That Blocked Trump’s Tariff Plan

A federal appeals court on Thursday paused the US Court of International Trade’s (CIT) ruling that struck down President Donald...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ghana: New Rules Shake Gold Trade

Ghana wants to optimize the benefits from its largely anarchical artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Arnault’s Work Extension

Bernard Arnault, the French billionaire, CEO and chair of LVMH, has just been confirmed at the helm of the world’s...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Lebanon On The Path To Reform

Lebanon's Parliament last month partly lifted banking secrecy laws in a rare move to encourage transparency and revive the nation’s scattered economy.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

US-China Tariff Truce Triggers Transpacific Rush—But Uncertainty Lingers

A brief easing of tariffs between the US and China has set off a burst of transpacific trade activity, but deeper tensions and long-term supply chain disruptions continue to cloud the outlook.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Google And Meta Face Scrutiny

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently ruled against Google twice: in August 2024 for monopolizing the search engine and search advertising markets, and in April 2025 for its digital advertising network being an illegal monopoly.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Is Musk Done With DOGE? Tesla Investors Hope So

Tesla just posted its worst quarterly results in years. Net income plunged 71% to $409 million in the first quarter.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

(Another) New Deal With The IMF

Even before Argentina’s previous agreement with the International Monetary Fund expired in December, President Javier Milei began pursuing a new bailout package.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

For British Steel, Nationalization Looms – Again

UK citizens could be forgiven for thinking, in early April, that they had been transported back in time, amid suggestions British Steel should be nationalized—something that happened back in 1967.