Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Dukhan Bank successfully issued an $800 million, five-year, senior unsecured sukuk in 2024 – the largest issue achievement by a Qatari Islamic bank since 2020. This financing will help the bank to further strengthen its private banking position.

Banking 83

Banking Finance Marketability Equity 83

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A Skeptical Look at ESG (September 2020) The ESG Movement: The "Goodness" Gravy Train Rolls On! YouTube Video My posts on ESG, impact investing and stakeholder wealth From Shareholder Wealth to Stakeholder Interests: CEO Capitulation or Empty Doublespeak? August 2019) Sounding Good or Doing Good?

Start-ups 99

Start-ups Banking Alpha Marketability 99

Benzinga

APRIL 7, 2025

Since 2020, Angus has invested over $20 million into exploration across the Golden Sky project, generating a pipeline of targets and confirming the geological continuity with Eagle River.

Enterprise Value 52

Enterprise Value 52

Equidam

JULY 9, 2025

During the 2020-2021 venture boom, European startups temporarily achieved valuations closer to US levels as global capital flooded into all markets. Our analysis reveals that US-based pre-seed startups typically project more aggressive financial targets, with TTM revenue of $250K going on to project almost $20M by year three.

Marketability 52

Marketability Technology Equity 52

Global Finance

JUNE 27, 2025

In Italy, it was triggered by Intesa’s merger with UBI in 2020, which widened the market share gap with smaller players. . “When the wave of consolidation rises, there is almost always a domino effect, with the banks trying to defend their competitive position.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Marketability 52

Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4] Activist funds also benefited, like many other investors, from the low interest rates of 2016 through 2020. In July 2020, Trump’s SEC chair, Jay Clayton, adopted rules for proxy advisers that were welcomed by many companies and business lobbyists like the Chamber of Commerce – but not necessarily by activist funds. 2020, [link]. [22]

Treasury 53

Treasury Marketability Equity 53

Equidam

JULY 3, 2025

When DoorDash went public in December 2020, investors valued the company at $72 billion despite generating just $2.9 billion in revenue. The valuation multiple seemed astronomical until you considered DoorDash’s $24.7 billion in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV).

B2B 45

B2B Marketability Beta Alpha 45

Equidam

JUNE 10, 2025

An example is the 2020 Finance Act extension that allowed international startups’ French employees to get BSPCEs – knowing such updates can be crucial. Advisors can keep you informed if, say, the holding period for tax breaks changes or if a new guideline on valuations is issued.

Fair Market Value 59

Fair Market Value Start-ups Equity Compliance 59

Equidam

JUNE 30, 2025

Indeed, companies valued primarily on revenue multiples during 2020-2021 are now the most vulnerable to down rounds. Revenue multiples became the standard, with companies routinely valued at 20x, 30x, or even higher multiples of annual revenue.

Equity 59

Equity Marketability Risk-free Rate Start-ups 59

Benzinga

JUNE 2, 2025

Combined, Stifel and Bryan Garnier have led more than 500 European technology and healthcare transactions since 2020, including advisory, sponsor-led M&A, equity, and debt deals. This is an exciting day for Bryan Garnier, our. Full story available on Benzinga.com

Private Equity Firm 40

Private Equity Firm Equity Banking Technology 40

Reynolds Holding

APRIL 22, 2025

28] Delawares incorporation market share among SPACs was down in 2021 from 2020 levels when 321 SPACs filed S-1 registrations, of which 191 (59.5 Unlike most companies that go public, a SPAC has no operations and its assets are effectively limited to its IPO proceeds. [16] Kupiec, et. percent) were Delaware corporations, 124 (38.6

Start-ups 49

Start-ups Marketability Private Equity Firm Equity 49

Equidam

JUNE 17, 2025

There are “ two elephants in the room ,” according to veteran investor Dave McClure: many portfolio companies are still overvalued, not yet marked down from their 2020–21 bubble-era rounds, and even for companies with more reasonable recent rounds, secondary buyers will still pay less than the last mark to compensate for illiquidity.

Start-ups 59

Start-ups Banking Marketability Alpha 59

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 17, 2025

This analysis follows compensation trends from 2020-2024, offering a comprehensive view of how executive pay has changed over the years in comparison to median employee compensation, as well as a look into gender pay equity. Compared to 2020, when median pay stood at $12.3 million in 2024. million in 2024. more…)

Equity 182

Equity Marketability 182

Global Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In South Africa, between 2020 and 2023 we deployed about $1.6 In addition, we also committed a record 29 investment transactions that are focused on gender; we feel gender financing is beyond diversity. It really is good business for banks.

Banking 98

Banking Marketability Finance Start-ups 98

Global Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2024

2018-2023, concurrently the top manager of the Data R&D Center of CTBC Financial Holdings, promoting as director of the Data and Technology R&D Department in 2020. By 2020, we already saw that 80% of our interactions were in chat channels managed by our virtual assistant.

Banking 105

Banking Finance Technology Start-ups 105

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 25, 2025

Notably, shareholder activism has emerged as a powerful catalyst for these changes, with S&P 500 CEO resignations linked to activist pressure tripling since 2020. That momentum has carried into this year: January 2025 recorded one of the highest volumes of CEO exits on record.

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 21, 2025

million in damages following a deal in December 2020 that valued the company at $3.5 Attorneys for online gaming company Skillz Inc. stockholders have proposed a $10 million settlement for a blank check company merger suit alleging $13.5

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 14, 2025

The Staff granted approximately 69% of no-action requests in 2025, which was relatively steady with the 68% success rate in 2024, signaling a continued trend of returning to the success rates in 2021 and 2020 (71% and 70%, respectively).

Corporate Finance 162

Corporate Finance Finance 162

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Latin America and the Caribbean have been hit hardest, with the former losing an average of 30% of its correspondent banks, according to a 2020 report by the Bank for International Settlements. The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, and St.

Banking 52

Banking Compliance Treasury Finance 52

Musings on Markets

JUNE 2, 2025

While some of the surge in debt can be attributed to the exigencies caused by crises (the 2008 banking crisis and the 2020 COVID bailouts), the troubling truth is that the debt has outlasted the crises and blaming the crises for the debt levels today is disingenuous.

Risk Premium 116

Risk Premium Marketability Start-ups Risk-free Rate 116

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 8, 2025

Trusted Insights for What’s Ahead In the S&P 500, disclosure of overboarding policies jumped from 68% in 2020 to 86% in 2025, reflecting investor pressure for stronger board accountability and capacity oversight. This figure rose from 44% to 58% in the Russell 3000.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In what could be considered retaliation, a week after the Biden administration introduced the new restrictions, China began investigating Nvidia for potential violations of antitrust law in its 2020 acquisition of an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products, Mellanox Technologies.

Technology 105

Technology Finance 105

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Since 2020, the Cabinet has resigned 10 times and Kuwait has held four legislative elections. While the World Bank projects GDP growth will surpass 2% this year, recent calls from US President Donald Trump to cut global oil prices are pressing Kuwait to accelerate its diversification efforts. For years, political gridlock has stalled reforms.

Banking 59

Banking Start-ups Marketability Finance 59

Reynolds Holding

JUNE 10, 2025

In August 2020, the Commission supplemented slightly the existing net income and wealth categories for qualifying natural persons, a change the Commission admitted was marginal. [2] 9, 2020), [link]. Securities and Exchange Commission, at 7 (Apr. 28, 2025), [link]. [2] Accredited Investor Definition, Rel. 33-10824, 34-89669, 85 Fed.

Banking 59

Banking Marketability Compliance Technology 59

Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

The SEC announced in 2020 that HP had committed fraud. We have used all listed US firms from 1962 till 2020 because thats when we wrote the paper. But in the end, they couldnt maintain that. So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things.

Start-ups 112

Start-ups Finance EBIT Corporate Finance 112

Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 8, 2025

As a specific example, I made the unconventional choice to put the safe part of my portfolio in gold and silver rather than bonds in 2020. The perfect example is COVID in the first quarter of 2020. everything but gold and government bonds) in January or February of 2020.

Start-ups 59

Start-ups Marketability Banking Equity 59

Global Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Vital Statistics Location: West Africa Neighbors: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana Capital city: Lomé Population (2023): 9.053 million Official language: French GDP per capita (2023): $921.69 GRP growth (2023): 5.4% Inflation (2023): 3.5%

Banking 98

Banking Start-ups Finance Marketability 98

Equidam

JUNE 23, 2025

Looking at the current UK startup investment landscape, while it’s certainly not a complete drought, the environment has shifted significantly from the exuberant years of 2020-2021. The dramatic shift in interest rates since the low-rate environment of 2020-2021 has significantly altered investor behavior.

Equity 64

Equity B2B Marketability Banking 64

ThomsonReuters

JUNE 12, 2025

Thomson Reuters achieved SAP’s Partner of the Year Award in 2025, is a two-time winner of the SAP Pinnacle Award (2010, 2019) and was the winner of the 2020 SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass Apex Award. This includes major ERP vendor sales teams in the enterprise sector and the largest global accounting firms and system integrators.

Compliance 52

Compliance Dividends Accounting Firms Technology 52

ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Prior to this final rule, the FLSA overtime salary threshold was $684 per week, effective January 1, 2020. Additionally, another three million employees earning between $844 and $1,128 per week would have been impacted starting January 1, 2025.

Compliance 59

Compliance 59

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Back in 2020, the government mandated PwCs international consulting firm, Strategy&, to advise on possible consolidation. In tandem with this expansion, Kuwait is looking to streamline its tentacular network of hydrocarbon institutions. Currently, KPC oversees eight subsidiaries, including KOC.

Finance 52

Finance 52

Mckinsey and Company

JULY 17, 2025

Breakthroughs in unconventional oil and gas from 2010 to 2020 allowed improved drilling success rates, faster drill speeds, and fewer, and shorter, drilling pauses, all of which led to large cost reductions. Drilling and hydraulic fracturing cost is driven by rig and crew, equipment rentals, and related expenses over the course of the drill.

Technology 100

Technology Finance Marketability 100

Musings on Markets

JUNE 17, 2025

That was the case during the banking crisis in the last quarter of 2008 and during the COVID meltdown in the first quarter of 2020, when funds with large private investment allocations felt the same drawdown and pain as funds without that exposure.

Alpha 76

Alpha Equity Marketability Start-ups 76

Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Its innovation department, Wenov, was founded in 2020. Based in Morocco, Attijariwafa Bank has significant operations in 15 countries in northern and western Africa, along with branches in Europe and Asia. Wenov strives to bring innovation to the financial sector. Wenov’s WeLab experiments with emerging technologies.

Banking 52

Banking Technology Finance Compliance 52

ThomsonReuters

JUNE 27, 2025

If these TCJA-related provisions are extended indefinitely under the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” employers and payroll professionals could benefit from greater year-end stability, avoiding the uncertainty of whether the IRS will revert Form W-4 and Publication 15-T to pre-2020 withholding calculations.

Compliance 59

Compliance Treasury 59

Global Finance

JUNE 3, 2025

In 2020, the Agency for Digital Development published a roadmap listing digital infrastructure as a priority. The North African kingdom has adapted quickly to the digital age. Since then, incentives have been put in place for the sector, including tax cuts and exemptions in the National Charter of Investment.

Banking 59

Banking Finance Technology Marketability 59

Mckinsey and Company

JULY 16, 2025

In 2020, faced with increasing margin pressures and significant levels of technology debt, the organization embarked on an end-to-end transformation to update its capabilities and reprioritize the bulk of its technology spend to change-the-business initiatives.

Technology 76

Technology Start-ups Compliance Banking 76