Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Accordingly, China’s involvement in Africa goes beyond trade, encompassing a mix of economic investments, geopolitical strategies, and local challenges. Chinese-financed projects have had positive spillover effects on broader economic activity in Africa, something not as evident with World Bank loans.” billion owed to Beijing.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Profitability - Absolute and Relative While we may all agree with the proverbial bottom line being profits, there seems to be no consensus on how best to measure profitability, either from an accounting or an economic perspective.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Choosing transaction services can be invaluable for businesses navigating complex financial events, whether they involve acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, or restructuring. This team is responsible for conducting thorough due diligence, which involves assessing the target company’s economic health, cash flows, and liabilities.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

A new law could make it easier for businesses to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and remain open, with more leverage for small businesses and easier ways to force negotiations with suppliers and landlords, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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Fpanda Club

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The growing variety and complexity of tasks within the finance function has resulted in the creation of a discipline that is supposed to become a bridge between the finance and business to support decision-making process by leveraging data and technology. This relates to FP&A which stands for financial planning and analysis.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When a company experiences leadership transitions, financial restructuring, or prepares for significant events like mergers or acquisitions, a transitional Chief Financial Officer offers instant, practical knowledge. The Role of an Interim CFO An interim CFO must uphold financial stability and strategic guidance during change or doubt.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When a company experiences leadership transitions, financial restructuring, or prepares for significant events like mergers or acquisitions, a transitional Chief Financial Officer offers instant, practical knowledge. The Role of an Interim CFO An interim CFO must uphold financial stability and strategic guidance during change or doubt.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The bank is expecting to deliver services like planning and financing advice to help firms in danger of becoming junked to get out of predicaments, according to Daniel Rudnicki Schlumberger, who jointly runs the bank’s Leveraged Finance Origination for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Organizations can ensure economic stability and confidently adapt to changes by spotting risks early and applying appropriate countermeasures.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Organizations can ensure economic stability and confidently adapt to changes by spotting risks early and applying appropriate countermeasures.

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CFO Share

AUGUST 22, 2024

Project-Based Fees Fractional CFOs might charge a flat fee for specific projects, such as fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, or financial restructuring. By leveraging the expertise of a fractional CFO, businesses can navigate financial complexities, optimize performance, and achieve sustainable growth.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The forecast corporate default rate reflects slowing global economic growth, an uneven rebound of China's economy, and continued tight monetary policy and high interest rates globally, the firm noted. “We Private companies in China , particularly property developers, with high leverage or weak liquidity are more vulnerable to default risks.”

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VCFO

JANUARY 27, 2022

total economic melt downs, (2000, 2008), terrorist attacks, pandemics (bird flu, swine flu, coronavirus), natural disasters (fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods), and geo-political tensions and disruptions. Restructuring a company in terms of the debt capital stack, takes time. Leverage Your Relationships. Fix Your Debt.

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E78 Partners

OCTOBER 28, 2024

By leveraging the insights of these experienced specialists, businesses can better navigate complex market conditions and maximize value creation. This may include restructuring, cutting costs, improving productivity, or seeking out additional sources of income.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 21, 2020

Singaporean firms taking actions Despite the mixed sentiments, Singapore businesses are taking actions to mitigate risks and leverage potential opportunities arising from these global developments, according to TMF.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the mature phase, you will see earnings multiples become more widely used, with equity versions (like PE) in peer groups where leverage is similar across companies, and enterprise value versions (EV to EBITDA) in peer groups, where leverage is different across companies.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Choosing transaction services can be invaluable for businesses navigating complex financial events, whether they involve acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, or restructuring. This team is responsible for conducting thorough due diligence, which involves assessing the target company’s economic health, cash flows, and liabilities.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Choosing transaction services can be invaluable for businesses navigating complex financial events, whether they involve acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, or restructuring. This team is responsible for conducting thorough due diligence, which involves assessing the target company’s economic health, cash flows, and liabilities.

Securities 52

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, a subset of conglomerates known as ‘all-weather stars’ have consistently outperformed their peers and achieved top-quartile status for TSR growth across all economic cycles over the past 20 years. Now, they are also leveraging technology to command a premium, shape new products and services, and generate new revenue streams.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

DSW has taken some time to decide how it can best leverage that competitive advantage in a changing retail marketplace. In addition, DSW’s new design features shelving on wheels, meaning a store can full tilt restructure its layout overnight. That left DSW with only shuttering and liquidation as options.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

The move aligns UOB, which also won the Best Bank in Singapore, with ASEAN’s rise as an economic powerhouse, rapidly transformed via megatrends like supply chain diversification, digitalization and investments in net-zero transitions and a rising middle class. In 2023, the bank leveraged its 8.9 billion manat (about $5.2

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. So we did foreclosures, we did restructurings, we did equity kickers, and we pulled up some of these loans into CMBS deals and sold them, sold them through Wall Street. I was a liberal arts major.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. At the same time, we are going through tectonic changes in the world economic order.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. So, now, help us understand how this evolved and where the challenges had come as this was evolving that got you to the point that you had to do some restructuring to make it this. Cean: Yeah.

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CFO Strategic Partners

MAY 29, 2025

CFOs must determine whether to absorb these costs, pass them on to customers, share them with suppliers, or restructure supply chains altogether. Issue: Capital Allocation and Cash Flow Resilience Ask Yourself: Is our liquidity strategy agile enough to withstand economic shocks?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bachelor of Commerce with honors from Delhi University, a Master’s in Economic from Vanderbilt, and then an MBA from the University of Chicago. You know, when you look at something like a Bloomingdale’s, what you have to ask yourself is, Bloomingdale’s is restructuring. Thanks for having me, Bob. You have to price it.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you were very actively involved in the restructuring of the airlines post 9/11. So there really wasn’t a whole lot of restructuring and distressed assets afterwards, or was there? But, of course, Lehman was a huge restructuring and bankruptcy liquidation — RITHOLTZ: Sill going on today, right?

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

That means that while Amazon and other eCommerce players were forcing customers to wait weeks, Walmart was more or less able to honor delivery windows measured in days by leveraging its store network. Safety First . The chain also increased its number of pickup and delivery slots so that fewer customers have to enter stores. “The

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, that may explain why firms that trade at low EV to EBITDA multiples are more likely to become targets in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) or leveraged recapitalizations. Debt to EBITDA, Interest Coverage Ratios If debt to capital is not a good measure for judging over or under leverage, what is?

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Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

The bank restructured its distribution model in 2024 to provide enhanced client service. Through ongoing innovation within its franchise, it continues transforming the countrys banking sector with effective Shariah-compliant products and solutions while contributing to Qatars economic growth and sustainability goals.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. How do you institutionalize data management and, and how do you leverage the idea of, hey, we know a lot about this, here’s how we monetize it. I found out quickly that’s not what I wanted to do.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These drives tend to be implemented in reaction to big external events, such as a severe economic downturn, the Covid pandemic and its fallout, or important trends in technology such as artificial intelligence. Companies in the Fortune 500 that underwent significant workforce restructuring in 2023 dished out $32.7

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. So as the market and the industry restructure, we’ll certainly be very opportunistic. CHABRAN: Maybe because I come from a leverage finance background, as I told you, I tend always to focus on the downside. I think we learned a lot.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And so the idea is that, what I’ve heard is like, hey, we’re going into a recession or a weak economic period so therefore everybody’s going to go into work four and a half days a week because they want face time with their boss. MILLER: And leveraging off of the technology, the platform for Instagram.

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Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

With hydrocarbons accounting for 90% of exports and government revenue, economic performance remains closely tied to OPEC+ production policy, global demand, and competitor output. It also shows Kuwait is serious in going ahead with the fiscal and economic reforms. Kuwaits economy contracted by 1% in 2024 following a 3.6%

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Download data Again, the steep drop off in invested capital that you see in 2015 is just a reflection of the restructuring of the company that year, as the invested capital in Adani Ports and Power was removed from the mix.

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