Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2025

Countries without independent central banks often experience high inflation or even hyperinflation, and so demand for US dollars is really high among the local population. GF : Lately, the US Treasury Department seems to be saying that the US doesnt need a central bank digital currency [CBDC], i.e., a digital dollar.

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Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2025

Countries without independent central banks often experience high inflation or even hyperinflation, and so demand for US dollars is really high among the local population. GF : Lately, the US Treasury Department seems to be saying that the US doesnt need a central bank digital currency [CBDC], i.e., a digital dollar.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Financing Flows 5.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2025

The deal also marks a milestone for Indian aviation finance: the first transaction in which all the stakeholders lender, borrower, law firm (Dentons), facility agent, and security agentworked through their entities based in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), Indias new international financial services center (IFSC).

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

For the numbers to be where they are, investment banks dont have many mega deals to boast about. billion investment from Chinas Ministry of Finance into four state-owned banks. The current scenario is in stark contrast to what big banks were expecting at the end of 2024 and the start of 2025. There was also the $16.4

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Global Finance

JUNE 13, 2025

Then there is the CFO who comes from an investment bank, who is more about capital and markets and investor communication. There is more of an accountant, who comes from the audit function, which I think is more about compliance and implementing standards but has less business interaction.

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Global Finance

JUNE 30, 2025

Across Europe, companies such as Siemens, SAP, and Nestlé are adopting networks of smaller offices or dual headquarters in cities like London and Munich to support regional flexibility Similarly, UK banks have invested in flexible office solutions to meet evolving employee expectations.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) remains the Gulf regions powerhouse; in 2024 alone, over 260 banking and capital market firms, 410 wealth and asset management companies (including 75 hedge funds), and 125 insurance and reinsurance firms established offices there. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, is closing the gap, however.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

the same year, according to the World Bank. More than 250 million children and young people, from newborns to age 24, lived in MENA countries in 2023, making them around 47% of the population, according to UNICEF. Youth (15-24) unemployment in the region stood at 24.9% Diversification through sports can create wealth and jobs, says Chadwick.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

The Dysfunctional Version In practice, though, there is no other aspect of corporate finance that is more dysfunctional than the cash return or dividend decision, partly because the latter (dividends) has acquired characteristics that get in the way of adopting a rational policy. Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

Capital means equity and debt, and debt can mean export credit agencies, bank debt, and eventually, it will mean the capital markets.

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Accountancy Today

JUNE 2, 2025

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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Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

It utilized a one-time resolution (OTR) from the Reserve Bank of India, repaid $1.4 Deutsche Bank is the sole arranger for the deal. The groups debt hit $5.2 billion in March 2020 due to high construction costs and working capital shortages during the pandemic.

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Global Finance

MARCH 18, 2025

Thats caused the Bank of Japan to start moving interest rates up for the first time in at least a generation. That also happened in a few places in Europe, but Japan kept its interest rates very low for a very long time as it tried to stimulate the economy and to rekindle inflation. Today, were finally seeing that happen.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Resilience, coupled with some slightly sunnier macroeconomic conditions, suggests that M&As and initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025 could maintain momentumdespite certain aspects of corporate finance currently being on the downtrend. The majority were in sustainable finance, where the bank has committed to facilitate $10.9

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

In my classes and writing on corporate finance, I look at the motives for businesses retaining cash, as well as how much cash is too much cash. It was born in November 2008, two months into one of the worst financial crises of the last century, with banks and governments viewed as largely responsible for the mess.

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Global Finance

MARCH 1, 2025

Banks led by Morgan Stanley finally moved a significant amount of debt from Elon Musks Twitter purchase off their books. 13, they secured the secondary sale of $4.74 billion worth of secured loans that mature in October 2029. This is well above their original goal of $3 billion. According to Reuters, investors will earn a 9.5%

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Global Finance

MARCH 27, 2025

From the establishment of its earliest banks in the mid-19 th century to becoming one of the worlds most advanced financial hubs, Singapore’s banking evolution mirrored the countrys journey from a modest colonial entrept for the trade between Asia, Europe, and then the United States to one of the worlds wealthiest and most developed nations.

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Global Finance

MARCH 26, 2025

Major global banks and financial institutions are increasing their participation in the social bond market, strengthening the role of debt capital in addressing social challenges across the world. The transaction aligns with the banks Sustainability Bond Framework, which applies environmental and social standards across sensitive sectors.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

For the investment banking industry, 2024 was a time of tempered optimism and guarded anticipation. Market participants entered the year hoping for a robust revival in M&A, IPO, and debt financing activities. A renewed interest in IPOs will also give investment banking a boost. Reality fell short of expectations.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet. Data Update 4 for 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation and Central Banks!

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Fox Corporate Finance

MAY 4, 2025

On a biannual basis, FCF publishes its FCF Bank-Monitor. The FCF Bank-Monitor is a research report, based on publicly available data, on the most active and largest 22 banking institutions addressing the German and Austrian.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 20, 2022

A long time ago, it didn’t matter that much if you applied for summer internships at the large banks but failed to win a single offer. When someone says they “didn’t get any internship offers,” typically they mean: They were recruiting for investment banking internships after their 3 rd year of university or their 1 st year of an MBA program.

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Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Macroeconomic, technological, regulatory, market structure, and product changes mean corporate and investment banks must take new approaches to tackling the opportunities and challenges ahead.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 29, 2022

Our Working Group is composed of leading academics, former Commission officials, and market participants who focus on the law and economics of human capital management: Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; Paul Brest, Former Dean and Professor Emeritus at Stanford Law School; John Coates IV, John F.

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“Why investment banking?” and there’s now an overwhelming amount of information online about investment banking. I’ll explain these points here and suggest specific answers to “Why investment banking?” but I’ll start with the short version: Table Of Contents Why Investment Banking: The Short Version “Why Investment Banking?”

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Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you want to know how to get an investment banking internship, it’s simple: Start very, very early and have a great “Plan B” if something goes wrong. And yes, you read the news correctly: Banks like RBC, DB, Houlihan Lokey, Rothschild, and Guggenheim opened 2025 summer internship applications in calendar year 2023. Corporate banking.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

The Nordic financial sector is witnessing unprecedented bank-sector consolidation and fintech partnership-building activity. The heightened level of regional consolidation, especially among Danish and Norwegian savings banks, has produced more than 50 mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the first half of 2024.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 9, 2025

Whenever I write about Corporate Finance jobs on this site, there’s always a fair amount of criticism in the comments. But many corporations also realized that Corporate Finance has a branding problem , because they created “Strategic Finance” roles. Recruiting: Who Wins Strategic Finance Jobs?

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 27, 2024

If you go by most online discussions, investment banking spring weeks in the U.K. are as essential as oxygen or high grades if you want to work at a large bank. Banks are also to blame because they now market spring weeks to students as young as 16. How to Apply for Investment Banking Spring Weeks Who Wins Spring Week Offers?

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 29, 2024

With the craze over renewable energy and infrastructure over the past few years, we’ve received more and more questions about Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance. And yes, coincidentally, we have a new Project Finance & Infrastructure Modeling course.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 30, 2023

Berger (University of Chicago), Wei Cai (Columbia University), and Lin Qiu (Purdue University) , on Monday, June 26, 2023 Tags: Board culture , Board of Directors , CEOs , Corporate culture , dei , Diversity Demonstrating Pay and Performance Alignment Posted by Mike Kesner, Linda Pappas and Ed Sim, Pay Governance LLC, on Monday, June 26, 2023 Tags: (..)

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We covered investment banking in Canada a long time ago on this site, but things have changed over time – and the original article was light on details and numbers. Although there are some advantages to IB in Canada, it’s almost always better to start a finance career in the U.S. Canada is significantly smaller than the U.S.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In addition to Prime Ministers that serve for only 44 days and questionable weather/food, the United Kingdom is also known as a global hub for investment banking. Many would argue that investment banking in London is second only to New York in terms of compensation, exit opportunities, deal flow, and “prestige.”. Barclays, and UBS).

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 15, 2022

Yes, if you’re working at a large bank, it’s generally best to be in a “front office” (client-facing) role. First, note that these terms apply only to investment banks and related finance firms (private equity firms, hedge funds, etc.).

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When it comes to investment banking in Australia , it’s easy to find complaints online. These complaints center on a few aspects of the banking industry there: Recruiting – People often claim that it’s much more difficult to win interviews and job offers, that nepotism is widespread, and that there aren’t many “side doors” into finance.

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