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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A

Global Finance

Persistent inflation and volatile interest rates defined much of the M&A landscape in 2024, dampening buy-side confidence even as activity gained momentum. Since the beginning of this year, global M&A activity has totaled $418.9 billion (about $7 billion) acquisition of British financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

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As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. So, the scope of FP&A: what is in and what is out?

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Optimising liquidity and risk amid geopolitical and economic shifts

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The region is experiencing easing inflation and interest rates yet remains challenged by heightened geopolitical tensions, especially between the US and China, which impact currency volatility and supply chain strategies. Smart & Intelligent treasury solutions are available and getting more and more acceptability by the users."

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PodChats for FutureCFO: Why intercompany accounting is crucial for post-merger success

Future CFO

Automation in M&A. According to Reuters, global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) volumes hit a record high in 2021 , breaching the $5 trillion mark for the first time. Large companies typically have subsidiary businesses that sell to each other. Source: Dimensional Research, BlackLine 2022.

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Western Union CEO: ‘We’re On An M&A Hunt’

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I am pretty active on the mergers and acquisitions front,” CEO Hikmet Ersek told the newspaper. Ersek said he is not waiting for a vaccine to pursue acquisitions. “It The Financial Times (FT) reported Western Union (WU) is planning to use opportunities arising from the pandemic to gobble up its weaker rivals. “I

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Navigating Mergers and Acquisitions: A Strategic Guide for CFOs in South Africa

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Navigating Mergers and Acquisitions: A Strategic Guide for CFOs in South Africa Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are powerful tools for growth, diversification, and innovation in today’s competitive business landscape. political instability, regulatory changes, currency fluctuations).

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10 Types of Financial Models

The Finance Weekly

Financial modeling can also help in performing sensitivity analysis, preparing budgets for capital expenditures, and evaluating the potential value of mergers or acquisitions. Investment Evaluation - Assessing mergers, acquisitions, or new projects. A loss decreases equity.