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How Access to a Global Talent Pool Has Changed Corporate Finance

The Finance Weekly

Finance leaders have traditionally concentrated on cost reduction as the key motivating factor for operational changes. The world is continuing to reimagine what the new normal for the workplace looks like; this is equally true for finance leaders and their teams that support them. Embracing Remote Work.

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

Musings on Markets

Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

In particular, there are wide variations in how risk is measured, and once measured, across companies and countries, and those variations can lead to differences in expected returns and hurdle rates, central to both corporate finance and investing judgments.

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Moody’s Sounds Warning Over America’s Corporate Debt

PYMNTS

Moody’s Analytics’ chief economist Mark Zandi is sounding the alarm over a surge in corporate debt among a concentrated group of U.S. corporations, MarketWatch reported on Monday (Aug.

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New FDI rules in the Benelux: a brief analysis from a Law and Economics perspective

Corporate Finance Lab

One reason is that Belgian and Dutch companies are typically characterised by a highly concentrated (family) shareholder structure. Hostile bids are therefore unlikely to succeed without the support of the controlling shareholders. 13] Conclusion The considerations above result in two findings.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. Macro Data I do not report much macroeconomic data for two reasons.

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Pandemic Wake-Up Call Drives Integrated B2B Platforms

PYMNTS

Corporate finance teams were not simply tasked with finding ways to continue operations in a remote work environment as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Moving forward, said Fitzmaurice, will require focusing on the tools that can strengthen transparency and drive corporates toward their strategic goals.

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