Caroline Crosdale

Massive layoffs are affecting the tech sector worldwide with some 971 companies laying off more than 150,000 employees in 2022.

The FTC is suing to block the merger of Nvidia and Arm as well as the purchase of virtual-reality startup Within by Meta (Facebook).

CFOs are particularly eager to reduce debts that are linked to floating rates. 

Now that remote work has become the new normal for some companies, they are cutting back on office space to cut costs.

Some companies are eschwing the bond market for their financing needs.

Retreats are now regaining appeal after Covid-19 lockdowns forced teams to work purely from home.

A new SEC seeks to align CEO and close collaborators’ compensation with corporate results.

Multiple, competing Libor replacements are gaining momentum on both sides of the Atlantic.

Revlon has been struggling for years under a massive debt load and interest payments last year were double its operating income.

More than 300 companies went public via mergers with SPACs over the past two years, but many of these listings proved to be problematic.

Public companies are increasingly going private.

Iowa's largest home lender is changing how borrowers are vetted to boost minority home ownership.

Macron’s triumph does not give him a political mandate.

A survey by the Society of Human Resources Management shows that 86% of employers are willing to welcome back quitters.

Like BP, Norway’s Equinor and France’s TotalEnergies, Shell’s leadership decided that the war with Ukraine made it impossible to maintain its business in Russia. 

Companies and governments the world over have decided to postpone or cancel initial public offerings amid the economic instability caused by the war in Ukraine.

Academics and analysts acknowledge the severity of Russian sanctions. Nevertheless, there are still a few ways around them.

Small-cap and microcap companies often need to pay more attention to retail shareholders to make sure they understand the business and to avoid unexpected stock volatility.

A Goldman Sachs executive takes the reins at Hertz after the company filed for bankruptcy during the 2020 pandemic.

Michel Combes, a graduate of the France’s elite Ecole Polytechnique, has three decades of experience in the telecom industry. 

The acquisition also lets Microsoft get its foot into the metaverse’s door.

Supply chain troubles force CFOs to come up with creative solutions.

UBS's C-suite just got more diverse.

Splitting companies up into smaller, more manageable businesses is now in vogue.

CFOs must now tackle real-time emergencies and have the quick reflexes needed for crisis management.

During the worst part of the pandemic, M&A negotiations between banks were frozen but now bank M&A transactions are at their highest since 2008.

Britain's fourth-largest supermarket chain will now be owned by Americans.

Six-month lockup periods used to be the strong recommendation from banks that underwrote traditional IPOs; no longer.

Best Buy alum Sharon McCollam becomes CFO and president of the grocery powerhouse.

The growth of e-commerce growth and data breaches are reviving virtual cards.

Young companies are looking for veteran CFOs to navigate the SPAC explosion.

Rather than building up their reserves, financial institutions are reviving share buybacks and increasing dividends

The daughter of an immigrant, union leader Daniela Cavallo ascends to a leadership position within the German automaker's corporate structure.

Germany looks for outside help to deal with Wirecard's troubles.

Blackrock is incentivizing the hiring and promotion of minorities and women.

Paolo Rubano, Finance Transformation director at Italian insurance giant Generali Assicurazioni after a decade at France’s Axa, discusses the need for major multinationals to be more agile, more digital and more customer-centric.

The explosion of small investors moving unpopular stocks like Gamestop has bigger companies looking for ways to connect with them via social media.

The tech and medical sectors are leading the way on M&A.

Banks reward corporations that are serious about ESG.

French neobank Nickel partners with smokeshops instead of building a traditional network of brick-and-mortar branches.

London was once Europe's premier finance hub but Brexit has upended that.

Powerful investors are known for tackling gender wage gaps or unconscious bias, but hate speech is new.

A former senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an Obama adminstration alum, Deese has powerful allies on Capitol Hill.

Meet and greets in the M&A process have been replaced by Zoom calls and drone surveillance technology.

After months of negotiations, Bombardier is set to close a deal to sell the rail division to French manufacturer Alstom.

Currently, US manufacturers lag the rest of the world on the electric front, but a renewed commitment to solo rules could help them catch up with other global automakers.

Covid-19 cruelly crushed some innovators, but the companies that have reinvented themselves are getting stronger.

JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America may also have women CEOs soon.

The 2008 crisis highlighted the role of company CFOs; the pandemic is highlighting the role of HR.

Overnight, the three big banks’ decision makes PCAF, founded in 2015 by the Netherlands consultancy Guidehouse, a focal point in the struggle over how to address climate change.