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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value.

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Anticipating Financial Challenges: Strategic Measures for Corporate Finance

CFO Talks

Anticipating Financial Challenges: Strategic Measures for Corporate Finance As a CFO in South Africa or elsewhere in Africa, you’re no stranger to the financial hurdles that come your way. Inflation rates can change rapidly, currencies can lose value quickly, and access to money can become difficult.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

The key benefit of Benfords law is that it doesnt matter what kind of firm it ispublic, private, what accounting policies it follows, what currency it operates in, whether its loss-making, whether its a growth company, highly leveraged or no leverage at allmakes absolutely no difference.

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Corporates Step Up To Welcome AI, Blockchain

PYMNTS

Separate research last month also examined how corporate finance expects are bracing for this digital disruption. Finance professionals spoke with Gartner, Inc. ” B2B payments is another area of corporate finance that some analysts expect blockchain to disrupt in a major way.

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Dollar Strengthens

Corporate Finance

Two currencies that have strengthened compared to the dollar are the Mexican peso and Brazilian real. Since the beginning of the year, the dollar has risen 17 percent against the British pound, 25 percent against the Swedish krona and Japanese yen, and an astounding 40 percent against the Argentinean peso.

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Risk = Danger + Opportunity!

CFO News Room

In my last point on inflation, I noted that a currency with higher inflation can be expected to depreciate over time against a currency with lower inflation. That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts.

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India: Shapoorji Pallonji Eyes Private Credit Deal

Global Finance

billion, marking the countrys largest local currency private debt deal. Indias Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group, a construction and real estate conglomerate, is negotiating with global private credit funds to raise $3.3 The funds will be used to refinance existing debt.