New SEC Short Sale Regulations – Is Your House In Order?
Now available, please download the full transcript of the discussion with Robert Sloan provided by GLG. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented new rules affecting both buy-side and hedge funds, focusing on short sale reporting and securities lending. These rules aim to enhance transparency, requiring daily reporting and full transparency after 20 days. […]
FinTech Industry in Southeast Asia
An article in the Hindustan Times reported that the Vietnamese FinTech industry is likely to reach $18 billion in 2024. But this is not a new trend, another article in The FinTech Times reported that Southeast Asia has seen the number of FinTech companies rise by a staggering 3,588% since 2000. To get an understanding […]
Direct Lending Activity in the UK: Market Drivers and Future Prospects
The direct lending market in the UK is undergoing some significant changes, with more private funds and sponsors making bigger loans. These funds are filling a void created by the withdrawal of some of the major banks. Banks began to limit credit loan issuance following the Ukraine crisis and rising interest rates. Paul Hatfield, Former […]
The Changing Face of Private Equity in Australia
To assess where the private equity business in Australia is headed, let’s first look at where it’s been and where it is now. Australian private equity emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s with what now looks like a laughable $12 million in early capital raising. Institutions and other large investors simply had never invested in the […]
The Future of Digital Currency in India
While enjoying the look, feel, and touch of cash is part of its ethos, India is nevertheless on the road to currency digitization. The Reserve Bank of India is scheduled to introduce a digital currency sometime before March 2023, which is the end of the current financial year. Currently, that currency does not have a […]
Challenges for Today’s Corporate Treasurers
The corporate treasurer plays a key role in a company’s finances. Given the many changes that have taken place in the financial world in recent years, providing an overview of that role may prove helpful. Corporate Treasurer Responsibilities The core function of the corporate treasurer is to manage balance sheet risks and make sure assets […]
The Role of TIC in ESG
With assets managed according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles on track to surpass $50 trillion by 2025, it makes sense to examine an often-overlooked business sector that serves this growing market — TIC companies. These are the businesses that engage in testing, inspection, and certification, essentially verifying that the companies that purport to […]
Are Implicit Biases Driving ESG Misalignment?
Driven by an understandable desire to back socially responsible companies, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is a growing trend among global investors. But it’s easy to overlook the psychology of ESG investing — including how biases can impact how professional investors understand their clients’ ESG-related preferences, and how professional investors make ESG-related investment decisions […]
Retail Outlook for Buy Now, Pay Later Adoption
Across the world, buy now, pay later (BNPL) services have emerged as a prominent payment form in the last five years. Mobile-savvy, younger consumers approach e-commerce with an on-demand mindset, and shopping without credit cards and making smaller, multiple payments through BNPL is appealing. Sellers see it as a powerful growth tool with seamless checkout […]
The Key Risks in the Digital Assets Space
Blockchain’s primary function is as a distributed ledger, with copies of the database stored across multiple computers. While it may turn out to ultimately have its greatest use elsewhere, the blockchain’s most successful implementation thus far has been with digital assets. As of mid-November, there are more than 14,000 digital currencies with a market capitalization […]
The Future of India’s Banking Sector
Increasing privatization and digitization are the two themes that will drive India’s banking sector over the next several years. In its current annual budget, the government specifically mentioned privatizing two public sector banks and set aside 20,000 crore (1 crore = 10 million rupees), or approximately $2.6 billion, for their capitalization. Determining which two banks […]
What You Need to Know About the Red-Hot SPAC Market
The year 2020 was the year of the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company), also known as a blank check company. These public companies exist strictly as vehicles to raise money to take other businesses public through a merger or acquisition. For example, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic turned to a SPAC to go public in 2019. […]