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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Slavery Act Puts Company Reputations On The Line

Management | Corporate Governance With the enactment of the Modern Slavery Act in October, the United Kingdom has made a new addition to the growing body of compliance regulations sprouting up globally.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Building Consensus With The Private Sector

Thomas Gass, assistant secretary-general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Family And Board Divisions At Heart Of Volkswagens Problems

Management | Auto Manufacturers The Volkswagen emissions scandal, which saw the company fudge emissions tests to make its cars appear less polluting, has resulted in a new CEO appointment, the suspension of key executives and a proposed group restructure.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Shareholder Activism Is Coming To A Boardroom Near You

Management | Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

At the UN Global Compact, Kingo Must Sustain Gains

Newsmakers | United Nations When the United Nations Global Compact was launched 15 years ago at the New York Stock Exchange, Lise Kingo was entrenched on the corporate responsibility frontline in Europe.

Banking

Full Faith & Credit? Sukuk Market Stumbles

Islamic Finance | Bank Negara’s decision to halt issuing shariah-compliant bonds has left a big hole in the Islamic debt market. Filling the void will take time.

News

Winterkorns Downfall: The Price of Emissions

Winterkorn is forced to resign after it was revealed the company was guilty of manipulating diesel emission tests.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CEO Pay Disclosure Shadows Public Companies

SEC & Executive Compensation | Five years after the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act, several of its controversial corporate governance provisions on executive compensation continue to wend their way through the system.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

ESG | Corporate Interest Sprouts In Booming Green Bond Market

Capital Markets | Debt Issuance of green bonds, which raise funds to support environmentally beneficial activities, more than tripled last year, to $36 billion, according to the World Bank.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Impact Investing: Doing Well And Doing Good

Global Salon | Global Finance sat down with Ommeed Sathe, vice president and head of impact investing at Newark, New Jersey-based insurer Prudential Financial, to discuss how corporate social responsibility and profitable investing can go hand in hand.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Is Moroccan FDI Economic Snake Oil?

Morocco | In recent years, Morocco has successfully attracted a growing flow of foreign capital, becoming the top foreign direct investment recipient in the Maghreb region (Northwest Africa), and one of the largest in the African continent.

Award Winners

Islamic Finance 2015 | Competing With Traditional Banks

Q&A with Mike Maguid Abdelaaty, president, American Finance House Lariba, Whittier, California