Global Business Network
US bank mergers and acquisitions (M&A) had a buoyant April, which saw 16 deals with a combined value of $14.9bn during the month to April 27, according to Refinitiv data. Total deal value for 2021 to April 27 has already reached $26.3bn, compared with $7.1bn during the same four-month period in 2020. Among the deals … Read more
“Being president is like running a cemetery,” joked president Bill Clinton in a 1995 Illinois speech. “You’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.” The US electoral soap opera has long polarised the country’s citizens. But the unprecedented events of January 6, 2021, the Christian festival of Epiphany, led to a great … Read more
The US government defence spending bill passed by Congress at the end of December included a new anti-money laundering (AML) whistleblower reward programme that has been heralded as a game-changer in efforts to clamp down on illicit money flows. The release of the FinCEN files last year highlighting how fraudsters have been able to move … Read more