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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US: M&A Has Strongest Start Since 2000

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt US companies announced $336 billion of mergers and acquisitions in the first two months of 2014, up 31% from the same period a year earlier, and the strongest January and February combined ...

Banking

World’s Best Investment Banks 2014

ANNUAL AWARDS: HIGH-OCTANE YEAR Global investment banks will face a tremendous challenge as they strive to continue running their underwriting businesses at the elevated levels they reached in 2013. Many of the largest banks on Wall Street reaped a windfall ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BAFT Annual Global Meeting

STAR PERFORMERS By Anita Hawser Over the past six years transaction banking has been one of the best performers in an otherwise lackluster banking sector. Even in the midst of a global financial crisis, suppliers and salaries still need to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Debt: Fed Tapering To Stay On Track

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Neither the consequent volatility in emerging markets nor weak US employment data will deter...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: The Fed And Emerging Frailties

DEAR READER MARCH 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 3 Not all emerging markets are equal. It may sound obvious, but...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US: New Microsoft CEO’s First Moves

NEWSMAKERS By Efraim Chalamish Satya Nadella, a Microsoft insider who came up through the ranks to become Microsofts executive vice...

Award Winners

World’s Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers 2014

GOLD STANDARD By Rebecca Brace and Anita Hawser Global Finance presents the winners of its annual Best Treasury & Cash Management Providers awards. Global multinational corporates may have come out of the 2008 global financial crisis better off than the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Another Conflict of Interest Brewing on Wall Street?

Could proxy advisory firmsthose as yet unregulated outfits that wield significant influence during corporate elections at US public companiesbe in...

Features

Americas State of Trade

When president Obama shared with the American public his policy vision for the next year in his State of the...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

NAFTA Turns Twenty: So Far, So Good?

MILESTONES By Forrest Jones Few things polarize policymakers like free-trade agreements, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) linking...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Bernanke: In Praise of Bernanke

Bernanke: The Visible Hand For Ben Bernanke, a rocky eight-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is ending...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

All Aboard The Transatlantic Express

MILESTONES By J.R. Brandstrader Transatlantic investment was hurt by the recent global financial and eurozone sovereign debt crises, but America’s heartland still has eyes for Europe. Johns Hopkins’s Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington, DC, found that, ...