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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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Anticipating Financial Challenges: Strategic Measures for Corporate Finance

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Anticipating Financial Challenges: Strategic Measures for Corporate Finance As a CFO in South Africa or elsewhere in Africa, you’re no stranger to the financial hurdles that come your way. Inflation rates can change rapidly, currencies can lose value quickly, and access to money can become difficult.

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McKinsey’s Koller: Valuation Isn’t Broken—Expectations Are

Global Finance

For the most part, a lot of what people are talking about is not a currency. We call it a cryptocurrency, but it’s not a currency. Koller: Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies tied to real-world assets, usually the US dollar or another fiat currency. From a corporate valuation perspective, they’re not particularly interesting.

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India's forex reserves surge by $5.17 bn to reach $696.6 bn

CFO News

For the week ending on June 6, foreign currency assets, a major component of the reserves, increased by $3.47 Expressed in dollar terms, the foreign currency assets include the effect of appreciation or depreciation of non-US units like the euro, pound, and yen held in the foreign exchange reserves. bn to reach $696.6 billion to $696.66

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

The key benefit of Benfords law is that it doesnt matter what kind of firm it ispublic, private, what accounting policies it follows, what currency it operates in, whether its loss-making, whether its a growth company, highly leveraged or no leverage at allmakes absolutely no difference.

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Corporates Step Up To Welcome AI, Blockchain

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Separate research last month also examined how corporate finance expects are bracing for this digital disruption. Finance professionals spoke with Gartner, Inc. ” B2B payments is another area of corporate finance that some analysts expect blockchain to disrupt in a major way.

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Paul Brody, EY: How Blockchain Is Transforming Global Commerce

Global Finance

GF : Lately, the US Treasury Department seems to be saying that the US doesnt need a central bank digital currency [CBDC], i.e., a digital dollar. But if youre a regional bank that does a lot of corporate finance, blockchain probably doesnt change your business that much. It can use stablecoin. Is that your read too?