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Summary Focus We study the variation across firms’ use of bond financing relative to financing through loan facilities and examine firm-level characteristics that may help explain such cross-firm financing variation. We contrast the debt specialisation and diversification of US firms with that of firms in Asia – a region with rapidly growing bond markets. Contribution … Read more
Digitalisation is the best opportunity so far to create a fully-integrated EU market for new listings, cost-effective secondary markets, and to further SME access to finance. Source link
New US president Joe Biden has frozen implementation of new rules pending a review. Source link
In March 2020, reports claimed the World Health Organisation (WHO) had warned against using cash amid fears it could be spreading coronavirus. The WHO later pushed back on the claim, declaring it had never issued any official warnings – but it wasn’t the only whisperings of ‘dirty cash.’ China had already begun sterilising money in … Read more
Application deadline: 14 March 2021 | Information Technology and Services (ITS) | Location: Basel, Switzerland Source link
This year’s Transaction Banking Awards have demonstrated how important the industry is to global business, economy and health. Source link
Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a huge $500bn budget on February 1, focused on healthcare and infrastructure and aimed at boosting the country’s Covid-19 ravaged economy. During her speech, she also committed the Indian government to forming a ‘bad bank’, in an attempt to tidy up the country’s struggling banking sector. India’s banks entered … Read more
  Author: Teza Ngulube, Head of Retail and Digital Banking, Atlas Mara Zambia February 10, 2021 Digital technology has been a great financial democratiser worldwide. Mobile phones and app-based banking have put previously inaccessible financial transactions into the hands of millions. While especially true for certain populations in the global south, you would be mistaken … Read more
Application deadline: 28 February 2021 | Banking | Location: Basel, Switzerland Source link
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