Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Global Finance magazine interviewed Brazil Central Bank President Roberto Campos Neto, who has been at the helm since February 2019. In this interview, Campos Neto shares his insights on the global economy, Brazil’s economic outlook, the resilience of Latin American economies, and the importance of central bank independence.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Major banks like Absa Bank, ICBC, OTP Bank, Bradesco BBI, J.P. However, activity was still below prepandemic levels (with a total deal value of $173 billion in 2019) and substantially below peaks in 2021 and 2022. It focuses on emerging markets and promotes social and economic development through sustainable finance.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 8, 2023

In a recent paper , we examine whether listed bank holding companies (BHCs) that are small enough to stay private are riskier than private BHCs that are large enough to go public but have opted not to do so. The banking industry is highly competitive, which leads management to seek better financial results and invest in risky projects.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Byadran Lkhagvasuren, governor of the Bank of Mongolia, speaks to Global Finance about the country’s growth prospects and its pursuit of sustainable economic development. The Bank of Mongolia started repaying the PBoC [People’s Bank of China] swap line in late 2023 to reduce interest costs and improve the central bank’s balance sheet.

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Valutico

JUNE 23, 2025

Now the companies are joining forces to create a powerhouse to further drive digital transformation in the Financial Services and Banking industries. “We are thrilled to welcome Paraloq Analytics to the Valutico family,” said Paul Resch, CEO of Valutico.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 13, 2023

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) surprised many investors and industry experts, given the bank’s recent accolades and long-standing reputation as one of the best national and regional banks in the U.S. [1] 1] Moreover, there had been no reported bank failures during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Will Fed rate cuts and geopolitics fuel more M&A deals by GCC banks? Banks in the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are set to reap further gains as higher oil prices, increased public-sector spending, and red-hot real estate markets combine to generate a heady lending environment. surge in quarter-on-quarter profits.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Streaming platform Hulu is one step closer to having a single owner as Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA ) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS ) engage investment banks to evaluate the company’s value. This deal gave Disney majority control over Hulu.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Beijing, accordingly, has become more cautious over the past decade, notes Jeremy Stevens, Asia economist at Standard Bank Group in Beijing. Stevens, Standard Bank: Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese lending was slowing down. Similarly, the Republic of Congo faced difficulties in 2019 when it owed around $2.5

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

To avoid bias in customer-facing banking applications, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) guidelines as more banks adopt such technologies. The guidelines arrive against a backdrop of HKMA noting growing interest in GenAI from the city’s banks.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Thus far, however, little has been written about the gamification of banking – the topic of our recent article. [3] 5] Perhaps motivated by such findings, online firm Ally Bank rolled out an “augmented reality” Monopoly game in six U.S. cities during 2019. [6] cities during 2019. [6] Bank in 2022, “embedd[ing] U.S.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

György Matolcsy, governor of Hungary’s central bank (Magyar Nemzeti Bank), reflects on his second term and speaks about plans to potentially join the euro. György Matolcsy: After the global financial crisis, central banks realized that monetary institutions and policy needed to be renewed. What is the status of these plans now?

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

My voyage with ESG began with curiosity in my 2019 exploration of what it purported to measure, turned to cynicism as the answers to the Cui Bono (who benefits) question became clear and has curdled into something close to contempt, as ESG advocates rewrite history and retroactively change their measurements in recent years.

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Equidam

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Across all companies, the sector that projects the highest growth rates is Banking & Investment Services, with a strong 291% average growth in year 1, 172% in year 2, and 81% in year 3, while the industry projecting a slower growth is Cyclical Consumer Products, with 198% in year 1, 92% in year 2 and 40% in year 3.

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IVSC

JUNE 5, 2023

Alistair Darling Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees Alistair Darling was appointed Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees during the Singapore AGM in October 2019. She regularly advises governments and central banks in the US, UK, eurozone and Japan. Alistair was previously UK Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 25, 2024

Nearly all community banks use technology services from Fiserv, FIS, and Jack Henry for their core banking needs (The Conference of State Banking Supervisors Annual Surveys in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 report that under 1 percent of the respondents rely exclusively on in-house resources to support their technology).

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The CARES Act makes the deduction limitation less restrictive for 2019 and 2020 in three ways. The deduction limit is raised from 30% of ATI to 50% for tax years 2019 and 2020 for all taxpayers except for partnerships. Taxpayers may elect not to apply the 50% limitation to either 2019 or 2020, if they choose. Bottom line.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 13, 2024

Banks are by far the biggest players in Islamic finance—some of them are exclusively Islamic while others offer sharia-compliant products but remain mostly conventional. Here are some of the key sharia-compliant products offered by banks—they have Arabic names but in most cases we can find an equivalent in conventional Western banking.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, after peaking in 1996 at more than 8,000 companies, the number of domestic US-listed public companies decreased nearly 50% by 2019 (i.e., According to one recent report, “the number of US companies traded on major US exchanges has declined significantly in recent decades. to approximately 4,300 companies).” [1]

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Road Map For The Future A lively FDI contribution gives Togo a favorable economic outlook, augmented by structural reforms and critical investment projects, according to the African Development Bank. According to the World Bank, Togo’s exports of goods are dominated by minerals and industrial and agricultural products.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We have argued that bank regulators should disclose more bank information than is now required. [1] In this post, we argue that supervisors should disclose specific aspects of bank examination ratings. Though bank examinations can play a central role in promoting the stability of banks and the U.S.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region last year—as in 2022—net interest margin (NIM) dynamics were optimal for banks in Southeast Asia, Australasia, Hong Kong and India. Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits.

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Chris Mercer

MAY 19, 2023

This post was originally written for Mercer Capital’s Family Business Director Blog and offered advice to family business directors based on my observations following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023. This failure was followed by Signature Bank on March 12, 2023, and First Republic Bank on May 1, 2023.

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IVSC

MARCH 31, 2022

He has been a member and Vice Chair of the IVSC’s Financial Instruments Board since its inception in 2019. Bank of England PRA The Bank of England's, Ragveer Brar, discusses the importance of international standards for financial instruments. Thomas Lee. Find out more about our standards.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Bank partnerships proliferate as the quest to deliver real-time payments intensifies. When it comes to processing payments, it’s better for a bank to be “always on,” says Debopama Sen, Citi Services’ head of Payments in the Treasury and Trade Solutions business. Sen, Citi: Banking clients are looking for a one-stop solution.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 13, 2024

We argue that bank regulation and supervision interfere with pricing risk by creating opacity. This would make capital markets more effective in addressing future banking problems and reducing reliance on bank regulators who have arguably failed the public. Given periodic banking crises in the U.S.,

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IVSC

MAY 16, 2023

Alistair Darling Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees Alistair Darling was appointed Chair of the IVSC Board of Trustees during the Singapore AGM in October 2019. Supported by over 200 member and sponsor organisations around the world, including the World Bank, the IVSC upholds a rigorous and independent approach to standard setting.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Basel Principles are part of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (the BCBS or the “Basel Committee”) work of assessing how the Basel framework can address climate-related financial risks, identifying potential gaps and possible measures to address any such gaps. 6 The Basel Principles also state that “smaller banks.

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Global Finance

JULY 30, 2024

billion less than 2019. Panama can still rely on the canal, a beneficial geographic position as a global trade nexus, decades of experience as a logistics hub, and a high-tech banking system. Sound Banking And A Plethora Of Projects Panama’s banking system remains an attractive proposition for potential investors.

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Global Finance

JUNE 17, 2024

A 10-year veteran at DBS Bank, Karoonyavanich recently expanded his role to cover all Equity Capital Markets business for the bank globally when the firm merged its equities, fixed income and brokerage businesses to form a new Investment Banking unit. In 2017 and 2018, we saw China continue to open up.

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Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2024

The latest such episode started in 2019 with the ongoing debt crisis, followed by a currency collapse and, in 2022, the fall of the scandal-ridden government of Rajapaksa. Based on impact of extreme weather events 2000–2019, Global Climate Risk Index ranks Sri Lanka 23rd most affected economy out of 180. Each time, it has bounced back.

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Benzinga

APRIL 1, 2022

Positioned for growth with strong focus on commercial and business banking clients. billion in total deposits, and becomes the #2 ranked bank by deposits in Teton County, Wyoming. Founded in 1982, BOJH is a full service community bank with a Wyoming-domiciled trust business. billion in pro forma assets and $7.7

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Burch & Co.

MAY 30, 2018

The change that is the most relevant to Burch & Company and to prospective representatives seeking sponsorship, is the restructuring of current exams, like the Series 79 Investment Banking Representative. Example: Investment Banking Representative A has been registered since January 1, 2018 and holds the 63, 7, and 79 licenses.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A New York federal judge on Monday tossed UMB Bank's claims that Bristol-Myers Squibb improperly delayed U.S. billion owed from a 2019 acquisition of Celgene Corp., saying the bank lacked standing to sue. Food and Drug Administration approval of a cancer treatment to avoid paying shareholders $6.4

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Australia Michele Bullock: Too Early To Say Reserve Bank of Australia veteran Michele Bullock took the helm as the bank’s first female governor in September last year during intense soul-searching at the institution, which had come under critical scrutiny during the tenure of her predecessor, Philip Lowe.

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Viking Mergers

AUGUST 19, 2022

million more Boomers than in the same quarter of 2019. Buyers and banks will wonder where the bottom is, and they won’t want to pay full price. The data is in, and we can see that, indeed, the pandemic accelerated the Boomer generation’s exit from the labor force. According to Pew Research Center , in the Q3 of 2020, about 28.6

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 16, 2024

A New York federal court’s 2019 ruling in U.S. Connolly, holding that the government improperly outsourced an investigation to Deutsche Bank, has not undercut corporate cooperation incentives as feared — but companies should not completely ignore the lessons of the case, say Temidayo Aganga-Williams and Anna Nabutovsky at Selendy Gay.

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