Antonella Ciancio

Corporate bond issuance reached $2.1 trillion in 2019, pushing the outstanding stock to a record $13.5 trillion.

Companies are adapting to tech-driven disruption and that is changing how CFOs approach their jobs.

The slowdown in developed economies will be offset by growth in emerging markets says the IMF in its new World Economic Outlook.

Among the “soft” characteristics that are often ignored, trust is critical to business operations—and with global communications facilitating radical transparency, it is rising in significance.

Growth slowed down since January but will rebound from late 2019 as central banks take a patient approach to monetary tightening and China boosts its economy, the IMF chief says.

Trade and tariff wars aren't the only things that threaten cross-border trade and investment.

New rules for foreign lenders are becoming clearer.

At the 30th annual Institute of International Bankers conference in Washington, D.C., US regulators expressed concerns about the impact of Brexit on markets and derivatives trading as the March 29 article 50 deadline looms.

Bulgaria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Peru and Morocco are better positioned to weather global headwinds, a report finds. Antonella Ciancio As US-China trade tensions, tightening financial conditions and increasing political uncertainty cast shadows on global economic growth in 2019, five emerging countries ...

Women are getting into more board seats and C-suites, yet progress is still hard-won and parity a long way off.

Large companies around the world are breaking off pieces or breaking up in record numbers. Will the boom last?

Output and fertility rates in many countries have not recovered from the Great Recession and income inequality is increasing even as the world financial system is more resilient.

Big soda is expanding into less bubbly product lines.

GM becomes the first automaker in history to have women in both the CEO and CFO positions.

More and more CFOs are becoming CEOs.

Under pressure from activist investors, company leaders are in a balancing act between the desire for greater margins and need to grow.

A new sustainability report by Morningstar reached a surprising conclusion: ESG practices in some emerging markets are superior to those of the US.

Singapore-based Broadcom redomiciled to the US, but it wasn't enough to get permission for its acquisition of US-based Qualcomm. Now Qualcomm's merger with the Netherlands' NXP may be at risk, as China and the US ratchet up their economic disputes.  

Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress has only increased public calls for more oversight of social media and how it uses customer data.

Supermarkets choose between joining forces with third-party delivery services or buying them outright to serve customers faster and better. Saving costs on the last mile remains challenging.

Three companies with 'extraordinary resources' will pool them to provide employees and their families with a new health coverage model

Corporate spinoffs and spinouts are booming as M&A fever and the long equity bull market fuel an appetite for deals. 

Consumer-staples giants such as Mondelez and PepsiCo too have become targets of investors pushing for more cost efficiency and growth.

Turkey, southern Europe and Brazil have the most difficult financial accounting and tax compliance rules in the world, a report by the TMF Group shows.

Ebay leaders Meg Whitman, Bill Cobb, and Rajiv Dutta at an eBay Live event in 2007. Photo by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Ten years before Jeff Bezos left a New York hedge fund to start selling books over the Internet ...

    Nathan Most, at the Amex, and Kathy Cuocolo, at State Street, were key players in the creation of SPDRs. 

Spotify is considering embracing the hot trend of self-selling shares rather than an exchange IPO listing.

From upscale department store Neiman Marcus to organic grocer Whole Foods, major luxury retailers and grocery chains are playing musical chairs in C-suites and boardrooms as they streamline management and change creative roles amid declining in-store sales.