Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate financing news / corporate debt     Corporations based in emerging market countries have increased their global borrowing substantially in recent years, putting themselves at risk to a sudden shift in investor sentiment and a turn in the global ...

Mergers & acquisitions     Milan-based UniCredito Italiano’s agreement to merge with Rome-based bank Capitalia in a stock-swap transaction valued at $29.5 billion has widened Europe’s lead over the United States in announced M&A; activity so far this year. Thanks ...

TRANSITION MANAGEMENT Increasingly sophisticated clients are demanding ever higher standards from their transition management teams.   Citi's Tim Wilkinson Complex portfolio alterations require specialist knowledge across numerous fields, and pension funds, asset managers and insurance firms are increasingly looking for ...

Global equity/drs     China-based manufacturers of products that convert the sun’s rays to electricity are raising growing sums of money on Wall Street to expand their production facilities to meet expanding demand for alternative energy in the face of ...

CORPORATE TOOLBOX / CREDIT DERIVATIVES Corporates have largely ignored the rapidly growing credit derivatives market for years. But will it help or hinder them if global growth begins to slow? The credit derivatives market has been one of the greatest ...

Rania Nashar, CEO of Samba Financial Group, is the first female CEO of a listed commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. She talks about modernization in the kingdom and at the bank, as well as Samba’s role in supporting the reinvention of the national economy.