Efraim Chalamish

The surprise deal was made possible by an unexpected actor from outside the region: China.

There has been a significant rise in vertical investment, triggered by a substantial decline in target companies’ valuation and the ongoing decline in funding opportunities.

Although financial restructuring has been developed as a stand-alone practice within international firms, especially during countercyclical economic periods, restructuring the digital-asset space is revolutionary and new. 

The decline in tech company valuations has forced many of them to pursue M&A opportunities.

Venture capital is moving away from unicorns and towards mature companies.

The public acknowledgement of poor performance reflects Norway’s leadership in transparency. 

The decline in startup funding globally and the uncertainty around raising new venture funds have brought attention to new sources of capital for technology companies to address liquidity and operational concerns via venture debt financing.

Newly minted ESG teams, chief ESG officers and chief sustainability officers are becoming more common in the corporate world.

One Zero stands out as an exclusively digital but nonetheless fully licensed bank.

More than two dozen shareholder class actions were filed with New York and Delaware courts in the past two years.

The fast-rising valuations of tech companies have also motivated firms to change their employee incentive structures.

New technologies demand new kinds of talent and make addressing labor shortages easier.

One trend driving the recent rise in fairness advisories is the SPAC wave.

Special-purpose acquisition companies are going global.

These are not your grandfather's trade wars.

Jay Lurie, currently chief investment officer of DC Green Bank, has more than a decade in financing and infrastructure development worldwide in positions at Macquarie, Credit Suisse, and the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). He talks with Global Finance about climate change and the finance sector.

The delisting follows a series of executive orders targeting Chinese technology companies as national security risks.

The world economy may be down but IPOs are up.

Dr. Gur Roshwalb, a former medical practitioner and now managing director at aMoon, a health technology and life sciences venture fund, discusses how Covid-19 is changing biotech investing, what he looks for as an investor and which new sectors are gaining momentum.

The infrastructure financing challenge has spurred innovative capital market solutions and public financial tools.

Multiple governments in recent years have amended existing legislation or adopted new regulatory processes to better screen or block FDI, if necessary.

Roy Bahat is head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions to reshape the workplace and global markets. Global Finance sat virtually with Bahat to discuss AI, the future of work and venture investing.

The Trump administration scores a diplomatic victory.

The expected spike in bankruptcies and restructuring cases is global.

Working from home presents technological, confidentiality and cybersecurity challenges, particularly for the finance sector.

Working from home may not just save money but lives.

The rise of Big Data is changing company leadership structures.

Facebook's currency seems to be going nowhere fast.

WeWork, Uber, and Lyft lead the way in a string of tech sector IPO disappointments.

Boeing plane crashes cause the company's stock to take a hit.

One of the three global ratings agencies adds ESG to its criteria for rating creditworthiness.

National security concerns dampen cross-border M&As.

Chaebols, an aging population, and an erratic northern neighbor are going to keep the new South Korean finance minister busy.

Interest in MBAs is declining while interest in MScs are rising.

The high court ruled that online retailers must collect state sales tax from consumers but the international implications of this are unclear.

New Lowe's CEO faces a heavy lift.

Rising interest rates show no sign of dampening dividend payouts or stock buybacks. Not yet, at least.

The new chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve is steadily raising rates amid a more volatile economic environment.

EON and RWE swap assets to become a market leader.

Sovereign wealth funds are looking to buy data—and they're buying the data companies to acquire them.

Olaf Scholz’s spending policies and his Social Democratic Party's criticism of Angela Merkel's ‘forced austerity’ could lead to higher spending, a reduction of Germany’s historical surplus and the risk of inflation.

Asset valuation is one of a chief financial officer’s core functions. CFOs are regularly asked about the value of a company’s shares, assets and subsidiaries, as well as that of companies and assets targeted for potential acquisition. Yet increasingly, companies ...

Many small, fast-growing start-ups aspire to become a unicorn—a private company, usually in the technology space, with a valuation of more than $1 billion. Unicorns are mostly associated with tech hubs like Silicon Valley. But they’re slowly part of a ...

Longtime senior executives Greg Abel and Ajit Jain were promoted to vice chairman on January 10 and joined Berkshire’s board of directors. The announcement might suggest that Abel and Jain, alone or together, might lead the company in the near future.

South Korea’s new overtures to Kim Jong II are part of a broader regional diplomatic initiative. Moon visited China, a North Korean ally and key trading partner, in December 2017, and called for better South Korea-China relations.

The  construction-equipment giant finds itself at the center of a tax controversy involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the impact of US tax reforms on domestic and international companies.

The Basel III rules aim to decrease bank leverage and increase liquidity. In addition to capital efficiency, the rules also institute stress testing and standardize market liquidity risk.

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a difficult macroeconomic environment. 

Jerome Powell is President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the US central bank. He will start his tenure in February 2018.

The proposal includes review of additional categories of transactions, such as nonpassive investments in critical technologies or infrastructure companies.