Global Finance

MAY 13, 2025

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insists the US-China talks are part of a broader strategy of economic decoupling for strategic necessities. This does not mean that the trade war, which is already having a tangible economic impact, is over, Coulton said, citing remaining 10% baseline tariffs and industry-specific levies still in force.

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Global Finance

MARCH 27, 2025

With an entire range of financial services across personal, business, corporate and private banking, alongside wealth management, investment banking, and treasury services, Standard Chartered has contributed to the transformation of the country into the world-class financial and commercial center that it is today.

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Global Finance

JUNE 20, 2025

The US Treasury announced in May that it will start phasing out the production of its lowest-value coin. Lately, however, and despite the 114 billion currently in circulation, the Treasury says that pennies are “severely underutilized” and easily lost, thrown away, or abandoned in jars in people’s homes.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Today, the corporate treasury team plays a critical role helping companies navigate a business environment rife with economic uncertainty, geopolitical risks, regulatory change, trade tensions and supply chain disruptions. Not anymore. You have the ongoing wars, conflict with China, high inflation, and [high] interest rates.”

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IVSC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Kwan Eng Chew, CVA Partner, Financial Accounting Advisory Services – Quantitative Analytics and Treasury Services Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd Kwan Eng brings a unique background in the defence science industry to his role at Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd. He is also the technical director of the IVSC’s Business Valuation Board.

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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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Essentials of Corporate Finance

JUNE 4, 2023

As we mentioned in the textbook, generally the shortest Treasury bills issued are 13 week maturity. However, given the recent debt ceiling problems, the Treasury issued cash management bills (CMBs), with a one day maturity. On Friday, June 2, the Treasury sold $15 billion in one day CMBs, to be issued on June 5 that mature on June 6.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Corporate treasury professionals are reassessing investment strategies to stay agile and conserve cash amid interest rate shifts and geopolitical uncertainty. A sense of nervousness amid ongoing global disruption pervades strategic thinking across global treasury functions.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

The US treasury market, considered by some still as a safe haven, was anything but safe or a haven, especially at the long maturities, as long term rates soared, with inflation (not the Fed) being the key driver. Since inflation was 6.42% in 2022, the real return on a US 10-year treasury bond was -22.79%.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Misfits – Many finance roles do not fit into either category; the classic examples are corporate finance and corporate development at normal companies. On the second point – “misfits” – corporate finance professionals at normal companies do not raise or invest money and do not charge commissions.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 15, 2022

Middle Office: In these roles, you “support” the front office with tasks such as managing the market risk on trades, managing liquidity for the bank’s operations (treasury), and determining the credit risk of counterparties in trades. Examples include strategy , corporate development , and economist roles at banks.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

These three categories have a lot in common: External Parties – Unlike corporate finance roles such as FP&A , in credit, you always analyze external parties such as customers, borrowers, or clients paying for ratings. But it is also possible to move to a credit rating agency or corporate/investment banking.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

Corporate Finance : The role of the equity risk premium in determining the expected return on a stock makes it a key input in corporate finance, as well, because that expected return becomes the company's cost of equity. 00254 + 1.4543 (.04)

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M&A Leadership Council

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As an executive team member, she provides strategic oversight of the organization’s financial, legal, HR, and corporate and client operations, ensuring resiliency and stability across all divisions. Marla partners with all key stakeholders, including the board of directors, investors, sales, client partners, and vendors.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

Government Bond/Bill Rates in 2023 I will start by looking at government bond rates across the world, with the emphasis on US treasuries, which suffered their worst year in history in 2022, down close to 20% for the year, as interest rates surged. The Fed Effect: Where's the beef? The Fed Effect: Where's the beef?

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Global Finance

JUNE 6, 2024

Innovation: New Cash Management Program Company: Intesa Sanpaolo The bank’s New Cash Management Program consists of two innovative solutions for corporate customers: the Multi-Currency Optimizer and Virtual Account Management.

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Global Finance

JUNE 3, 2024

Verdeschi has spent the last seven years as Citi’s treasurer, in which capacity he managed a $2 trillion balance sheet, centralized treasury activities and revamped governance.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 16, 2023

Today [April 14], the Commission is considering whether to issue a supplemental release to our January 2022 proposal requiring significant trading platforms—including in the Treasury markets—to come under important rules for the markets. These IDBs function like exchanges but currently are not regulated like exchanges.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

To aid the island republic, the State Bank of India (SBI) has subscribed to $50 million in government Treasury bills issued by the Ministry of Finance of the Maldives, rolling over a one-year T-bill following the maturity of the previous subscription on September 19.

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IT Valuations

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To get this knowledge, we recommend taking free (or paid) courses from the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI). At the end of the day, the most important reason to invest in improving your understanding of financials is that they illustrate and help drive your value.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 8, 2025

In a seminal development last week, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued staff guidance dispelling that cloud over staking, announcing that there is no offer or sale of a security in the direct staking of a protocol’s native cryptoasset, nor in staking-as-a-service on behalf of others. billion acquisition of Hidden Road.

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 9, 2025

The effect was compounded by broad sell-offs of US Treasury securities, usually viewed as a market safe haven. US Treasury securities increased by 47 basis points between April 4 and April 11 in the US Treasury benchmark ten-year yield. The industry recently experienced a spike in market volatility (to 19.5

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We expect many months (possibly years) of dialogue involving both houses of Congress, regulators such as Treasury, the SEC, the CFTC and the banking agencies, industry participants, industry competitors and consumer watchdogs. Stop holding up crypto company IPOs.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

15] Corporation Finance The Division of Corporation Finance seeks to ensure that investors have access to the information they need to make informed investment and voting decisions when a company offers its securities to the public, and on an ongoing basis as companies continue to provide information to the marketplace.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 18, 2022

In the interest of time, I will focus the bulk of this testimony on our six Divisions: The Divisions of Enforcement and Examinations, our cops on the beat and eyes and ears on the ground; The programmatic Divisions of Corporation Finance, Trading and Markets, and Investment Management; and. Corporation Finance.

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Global Finance

MAY 10, 2024

And while Chinese holdings of US Treasuries have declined notably since the pandemic, China’s holdings of agency securities and US corporate equities have picked up of late, though some of this is simply down to valuation increase.” Ryan, Deutsche Bank: China is holding fewer US treasuries and more agency and corporate securities.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. If you use it at their jobs as corporate finance or equity analysts, I am glad to take some of that burden off you, and I hope that you find more enjoyable uses for the time you save.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 11, 2023

For our analysis, we draw on an earlier post , in which we argued that the actions of the Swiss authorities made sense from a corporate finance, legal, and financial stability perspective. They also argue that the actions of the Swiss authorities with regards to the sale of CS to UBS can be qualified as a bail-out.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 15, 2022

On May 3, 2022, the Division of Corporation Finance (“CorpFin”) of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”).

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 27, 2022

12] See Staff Statement on LIBOR Transition—Key Considerations for Market Participants (Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, Division of Trading and Markets, and the Office of Municipal Securities) (Dec. 93169 at 9-11 (Sept. trillion by 2000.”). [22] 22] See, e.g. , U.S. economy.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases. Rather than replicate that data, my macroeconomic datasets relate to four key variables that I use in corporate finance and valuation.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Treasury finalized bailout loans for seven airlines up to a maximum loan concentration of $7.5 In our paper, we critically examine the arguments for curtailing stock repurchases from the basic corporate finance theory perspective and conclude that they are without merit. In September 2020, the U.S. billion per airline.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 11, 2021

Historical Stock Returns: Pre and Post-tax At the start of every year, I update a dataset , where I look at historical returns on stocks over time, and compare these returns to returns on treasury bonds/bills, corporate bonds and gold.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 24, 2024

Country Risk in Business Most corporate finance classes and textbooks leave students with the proposition that the right hurdle rate to use in assessing business investments is the cost of capital, but create a host of confusion about what exactly that cost of capital measures.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

They begin with rules on Universal Proxy (11/17/21), implementation of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (12/2/21), and Proxy Advisors (7/13/22), and end with rules on Conflicts in Securitizations (11/27/23), Treasury Market Clearing (12/13/23), and SPACs (1/24/24).

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In November, he nominated pro-crypto billionaires Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent for Commerce Secretary and Treasury Secretary, respectively. appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. Trumps agenda includes establishing a Bitcoin Reserve and a crypto advisory council. The post Will Trump Spark An IPO, M&A Revival?

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