Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Magnis Energy Technologies, which also has interests in graphite mining, is relishing a deal with electric vehicle giant Tesla for the purchase of up to 35,000 metric tonnes of anode active material annually for three years starting in early 2025. Inflation (2024, projected): 3.2%

Alpha

Financial Times M&A

JULY 24, 2025

Sign up for the FT Weekend Festival at ft.com/festival and use the promo code “FTPodcasts” for 10 per cent off. Australia’s ‘millionaires factory’ faces shareholder backlash over pay Why is it so hard to replace HSBC’s Mark Tucker? Also, they go long Scottie Scheffler and short Japan.

Start-ups

Global Finance

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sachin Arora: To understand the role and impact of AI, we need to start by looking at how customer experiences are formed. People dont wake up in the morning thinking about their bank. The post Making AI Pay Off in Global Banking appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. Instead, consumers take a more emotional view of money.

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Financial Times M&A

JULY 29, 2025

It’s time to retire the word ‘technology’ AI is the new foreign aid Markets Sections Markets Home Alphaville Markets Data Crypto Capital Markets Commodities Currencies Equities Monetary Policy Radar Wealth Management Moral Money ETF Hub Fund Management Trading Most Read Wall Street gears up for ‘pivotal’ three days for US markets Stockpicking hedge (..)

Start-ups

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

They can make a very fast start reversing the regulatory ecosystem that the Biden Administration built. President Joe Biden did accelerate the regulatory supercycle that started with the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Is anything clear yet?

Banking

Global Finance

AUGUST 5, 2025

Next up: embedding AI deeper into enterprise resource planning (ERP) for predictive analytics, inventory and lead time management behind the scenes. “Integration is far easier for start-ups unburdened by legacy infrastructure.” “You need to change the wheels of the car while driving the car! .

Finance

Global Finance

APRIL 6, 2025

The solution for most insurance companies has been twofold: Sell off swaths of high-cost legacy obligations to reinsurers to free up capital, and invest more of their premiums into alternative assets: most notably private debt with higher yields and risks than investment-grade bonds. Slowly but surely, they are finding ways.

Private Equity Firm

Global Finance

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Laziz Kudratov : The changes that started in 2016 continue. How realistic is this given Uzbekistan’s historic close relations with Russia—and have we started to see evidence of it yet? Companies that are set up here can easily access key markets. We have seen GDP rise by 6% in 2023 and 6.4% in the first half of 2024.

Start-ups

Financial Times M&A

JULY 16, 2025

City leaders underwhelmed by Rachel Reeves’ financial strategy Climate Opinion Sections Opinion Home Columnists The FT View The Big Read Lex Obituaries Letters Most Read Trump and Maga are no longer the same thing A weak yen is the root of Japan’s lurch to the right The great French comté clash Politics faces its own AI reckoning What the Afghan ‘super-injunction’ (..)

Equity

Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

You start off small, and then it starts escalating. And theres a recent paper that says youre more likely to round up your earnings-per-share number about five years before. So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things.

Start-ups

Global Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Last year, another Singaporean company, NutriSource, started NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilizer production in Togo. The attacks have lulls, then flare up again, says Confidence MacHarry, senior geopolitics analyst at SBM Intelligence, a security research firm in Lagos, Nigeria. “In billion ($7.8 GRP growth (2023): 5.4%

Banking

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Last May, the emir dissolved Parliament and partially suspended the constitution for up to four years, a dramatic move aimed at fast-tracking key structural reforms in coordination with international institutions. Finance Minister Noora Al-Fassam estimates the tax will target over 300 companies, raising up to $825 million annually.

Banking

Global Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Indeed, stablecoin market capitalization reached $230 billion in mid-March, up 56% from a year earlier; analysts at Bernstein predict market cap could exceed $500 billion by yearend. Trumps rejection of a digital dollar, and his embrace of stablecoins, appears to have spurred the EU to speed up implementation of its own CBDC project.

Banking

Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

But negotiations never started because of Lulas vision of Mercosur being together, notes Bartesaghi. But observers tend to chalk this up to domestic posturing. The post Mercosur-EU Trade Deal Challenges Protectionism appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. If the extreme condition were that, yes, he said.

Start-ups

Global Finance

JULY 30, 2025

OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was the start of public awareness and mass usage of AI. At Singapore’s DBS Bank, consideration of any AI initiative starts with three questions: 1)“Can we use it?”: The industry also struggles to calculate the ROI of speeding up existing projects, making room for innovation even harder.

Finance

Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Now the party is winding down as inflation recedes and central banks ease up, but not too fast. The Fed deftly managed acquisitions by stronger partners, and competitors have quietly hedged the bond portfolio mismatches that started the trouble at SVB. The post Banks Weather Storm appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

Banking

Global Finance

JUNE 13, 2025

To give you an example, we signed a strategic agreement with Volkswagen in December of last year; the first discussion started two years ago. Bergmann: Clearly, 2025, with the situation that the US administration has started with tariffs, is creating a lot of uncertainty for our customers.

Finance

Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

When we put those two things together, we still end up with an effective rate pretty close to 25%. And so, weve ended up with a tariff rate on China thats just eye-popping. The post Grave New World: Q&A with Brian Coulton of Fitch Ratings appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. Its a huge, $18 trillion economy.

Start-ups

Global Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

bank Deputy CEO Sezgin Lle explains how the Turkish bank, which recently celebrated its centenary, is gearing up for the future of banking. The post The Future Of Banking For A New Generation: bank Deputy CEO Sezgin Lle appeared first on Global Finance Magazine. The third part is embedded finance, which is just open banking.

Banking

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

ADGM supports businesses of all sizes, a spokesperson says, with a competitive tax environment with low to zero percent tax on profits and no restrictions on capital repatriation, cutting-edge digital infrastructure, and a plug-and-play ecosystem that simplifies the process of setting up and doing business within the jurisdiction.

Start-ups

Musings on Markets

JUNE 17, 2025

That said, they represent actions that you would take with diametrically opposite views of the same stock (asset), with being long (going short) making sense on assets where you expect prices to go up (down). again a process that has been around a while, but one that has also become formalized and a much larger source of funds.

Alpha

Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

With a second Trump administration starting up, 2025 may bring escalating tariffs, retaliatory trade measures, and a rearranging of the international trade order. The anticipated start of US President-elect Donald Trumps second term positions 2025 as a defining year for global trade policy.

Start-ups

Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

M&A activity got off to a strong start in 2025, with global deal value surpassing $1.2 Other regions are on the opposite trajectory: Japan, $42 billion (up 133%); Asia, $251.4 The current scenario is in stark contrast to what big banks were expecting at the end of 2024 and the start of 2025. billion (73%); Canada, $52.4

Start-ups

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With 12 million corporate clients, the bank’s corporate loan balance that month was first among global commercial banks, exceeding ¥16 trillion and up nearly ¥1.4 trillion, up ¥1.21 In recent years, BOC’s Dubai and Hong Kong branches have also started offering green bond investments. trillion from January.

Banking

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

billion by then, up from $8 billion today, which should translate into over 100,000 jobs. Etihad Airways, the UAEs national airline, announced a multi-year sponsorship agreement with the Badminton World Federation (BWF), starting with the 2025 season. billion a year, or 1.5% The sectors market value is projected at $22.4

Marketability

Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

I started in public accounting at Ernst & Young, where we did everything manually. This involved restructuring the former company, setting up the right platform, and securing the proper capital structure. GF: What keeps you up at night? Global Finance: How has the CFO role changed? Ledgers and calculators.

Capital Structure

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and something has changed, so as a business, you have to be able to live with this dynamic. Initially expected to be taken up by 540 companies by 2030, the kingdom surpassed this goal within the first year. It creates opportunities, but for example, laws and regulations evolve rapidly.

Start-ups

Global Finance

JULY 14, 2025

Logistics companies, which accounted for 3.14% of GDP in 2023, are treated the same way, tax-wise, as those that set up in the free trade zones. At least 14 BPO start-ups are currently operating in and around the capital of Santo Domingo, employing 36,000 call center workers.

Start-ups

Global Finance

JUNE 10, 2025

The new attention is welcome in Latin America—up to a point. Chinese exports to Europe rose to $46 billion in April, up from $43 billion in April 2024. US imports from Vietnam in April were up 34% from a year earlier, driven by US companies frontloading orders ahead of the new tariffs. billion, more than double the $21.2

Treasury

Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

Typically, at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars was required, and you had to commit the money for up to 10 years or more. The development of the secondary market in private investments has also opened up opportunities for new buyers in the private space. It used to be tough investing in private market assets. Not anymore.

Marketability

Financial Times M&A

JUNE 20, 2025

McLaughlin is the founder of Financial Technology Partners (or “FT Partners”), which he started as a niche firm almost 25 years ago. More curiously, the revised 2021 engagement letter said that AvidXchange would also pay $50mn to FT Partners in conjunction with ripping up the old deal and signing the new one. per cent x $2.2bn.

Start-ups

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. dollars To sum up, the money owed to policy holders is in a yen portfolio. The way weve tried to neutralize our yen exposure is by setting up these two portfolios. Today, were finally seeing that happen.

Start-ups

Global Finance

AUGUST 5, 2025

If it were up to you, what qualities would you look for? Precautionary savings are ticking up, incomes remain stable, but spending has softened. Add in slowing immigration and other demographic trends, and the idea of growing our way out of this starts to look far less plausible. But the bottom 40% are under pressure.

Treasury

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

growth in GDP in 2025, up from 1.9% With over $2 trillion in planned infrastructure projects, the Middle East appears to be at the starting point of a long-promised economic transformation. The agency predicted that credit growth will pick up in most countries and that lenders will maintain profitability, liquidity, and asset quality.

Banking

Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

The GCCs open-door economic policy is at a crossroads as geo-fragmentation rises and the US-China rivalry heats up. In its latest annual report, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commissiona bipartisan advisory panel of the US Congresssingled out AI tie-ups between Chinese and Gulf firms as a new vector of vulnerability.

Start-ups

Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Most Innovative Financial Technology Company in Middle East | GEIDEA The first payment provider in the Middle East and North Africa region to offer instant merchant onboarding, Geidea enables businesses to start accepting payments within minutes, thanks to substantial investments in automation, AI, and digital verification.

Banking

Global Finance

JULY 29, 2025

Across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, a new generation of fintech start-ups are challenging the dominance of incumbent banks and brokerage firms. Start-ups like Tabby and Tamara have made their mark in consumer credit while wealthtech platforms like Sarwa have made investing more accessible to a broader demographic.

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