March 2018

The latest tax and regulatory reforms in the US are intended to woo more corporate investment from abroad, but they offer both pros and cons that vary widely from sector to sector.

The head of the world’s largest economic cooperation organization speaks one-on-one with Global Finance about the pace of international trade—and the risks that confront it.

Changes in technology, regulation and the distribution of wealth are reshaping private banking throughout the Americas.

At Global Finance’s annual private-bank awards dinner in Manhattan, talk revolved around how wealth can best serve people and create value worldwide.

Spotify is in the spotlight as its proposed direct listing tests the market for unusual financing. Private companies are watching the outcome—especially as markets turn volatile.

Regulation and technology have transformed treasury since 2008. Our global winners have turned those changes to advantage.  

New realities require a new category to recognize firms advancing treasury and cash management solutions.

Innovation drives the category as bank/non-bank distinctions blur.

Providers have to deal with issues both big and small with firms both big and small.

Speed becomes the key differentiator for treasury and cash management providers.

Newer market economies face issues of smaller scale and a wider array of currencies than their western counterparts.

Ever-changing political and economic environments keep cash management professionals agile.

News-heavy year required flexibility in cash management solutions.

More platforms and more interfaces yield more complexity for Scandanavian treasury officers.

In the wake of the US tax overhaul, corporate treasuries brace for repatriation of assets.

Vendors guide corporate clients through increasingly frictionless—though initially disorienting—new platforms.

MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey, co-author of The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, talks with Global Finance about how the new technology could change business—and how business leaders might need to change their thinking to take advantage of it.

MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey, co-author of The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, talks with Global Finance about how the new technology could change business—and how business leaders might need to change their thinking to take advantage of it.

One of Africa’s largest economies is trying to stay afloat in the face of growing challenges.

External regulation and internal economics curb Beijing's appetite for investing around the globe.

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

UAE and Jordan lead the Middle East's drive for post-hydrocarbon, environmentally sound projects.

Beijing's top central banker is retiring. With no successor named yet, the rumor mill starts churning.

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.

Nobuaki Kurumatani, a former banker experienced in restructuring distressed companies, will be the first outsider to run the electronics giant in more than 50 years.

The rand and South African stocks rallied on the news of Zuma's removal as the republic's president, but challenges remain for his successor.

China finds itself in a position to lead as the developing world begins to invest in renewable projects.

Banks' internal Shariah boards engender 'conflicting rulings,' so investors look to homogenize industry practices.

As the equatorial nation's sovereign debt gains international favor, local corporate bonds find a broader and deeper-pocketed array of investors.

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.

While we are witnessing a global race for instant payments, this momentum isn’t likely to result in a global real-time payments solution anytime soon.

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

Italo Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori scrapped its IPO plans to accept a sweet, trans-Atlantic, private-equity deal worth €1.98 billion​.

 'Programmatic M&A' is the path that holds the most promise, according to the consultancy, as opposed to infrequent large deals which 'hurt value creation'.

 Lack of transparency, including an inability to identify who would control the exchange, sink economically modest but politically heated transaction.

Political stability, a fast-growing economy and a sustained program of economic reforms are among the reasons for the feverish pace of takeover activity in the south Asian republic.

To get around sanctions, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is issuing an oil-and-reserves-backed cryptocurrency. If it succeeds, the ICO should provide the government with access to $6 billion. But cryptos are dicey. 

While economic growth in Mali shows promise, escalating violence is scaring off foreign investors.

New resource-extraction operations, Russia’s economic recovery and Asian investment are lifting prospects across the Caucasus.

A nascent global recovery is improving prospects across Latin America and the Caribbean—albeit unevenly.

Click here for more on the Caribbean's economic recovery.

Despite hurricane damage, average economic growth in the Caribbean is expected to top the Latin American average according to the IMF. However, Dominica's GDP is expected to decline and weak growth is likely in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands where pre-existing macroeconomic weaknesses were compounded by storm damage.