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Insider Trading in Connected Firms during Trading Bans

Harvard Corporate Governance

There is an extensive body of studies that documents that corporate insiders with access to insider information are able to earn abnormal returns by trading their firms shares. For instance, in 2016, two investment bankers were convicted of insider trading in the UK and sentenced to 3.5 This post is based on their recent paper.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things. Their initial response was to increase their human intervention in 2008: They changed their inventory valuation assumption, their revenue recognition assumptions, and a few other things.

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Green Flag For Sports Investment

Global Finance

In 2016, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pushed PIF to flex its financial might globally, including in the sports world. The groundwork for todays skyscraper-scale outlays was laid in 2013-2017, however.

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CFO Corner With Thryv Holdings’ Paul Rouse

Global Finance

Thryv was formed in a 2017 merger between Dex Media, a Yellow Pages publisher that restructured its debt in 2016, and YP Holdings, another Yellow Pages publisher. Now, were at another pivotal point, transitioning fully from a Yellow Pages marketing business to a software company. These are two entirely different businesses.

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FRP Corporate Finance secures Tradeteq sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has helped support technology firm, Tradeteq, on its sale to working capital structuring and advisory firm, Silver Birch Finance. Since its launch in 2016, the business has attracted significant backing, allowing it to invest more than $40m (29.5m) in building its technology platform.

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Aflac’s Brad Dyslin On Japan’s Investment Shifts, Tariffs, And Insurance M&As

Global Finance

Ten-year government bond interest rates were below 2%, and then they went negative in 2016. They had been extremely low for at least the last 25 years, even before the financial crisis.

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CFO Corner: Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet, OSE Immunotherapeutics

Global Finance

Since 2016, Anne-Laure Autret-Cornet has been the CFO of OSE Immunotherapeutics, a biotech dedicated to immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. Global Finance: What has been your biggest challenge as CFO? The Nantes, France-based company went public on the Euronext Paris stock exchange in late March 2015.