Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Return on (invested) capital 2.

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Accountancy Today

MARCH 1, 2023

FRP Corporate Finance has advised on the pre-pack sale of Truphone Limited, a global mobile communications company, to TP Global Operations Limited, in a transaction that saves around 450 jobs.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 25, 2023

FRP Corporate Finance has revealed it secured a multi-million-pound refinancing package for horticultural experts, Bridge Farm Group. Having secured two fully credit backed offers to refinance the group, FRP subsequently supported management in the detailed negotiation of terms to completion of the financing.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 28, 2023

FRP Corporate Finance has advised ground maintenance provider Ground Control on a refinance with new funding from Pricoa Private Capital to support continued growth plans. The shareholders at Ground Control appointed the debt advisory team at FRP Corporate Finance. ”

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Resilience, coupled with some slightly sunnier macroeconomic conditions, suggests that M&As and initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025 could maintain momentumdespite certain aspects of corporate finance currently being on the downtrend. At last check, global M&A is down 7% in 2025 compared to 2024; in the US, its down 32%.

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Corporate Finance

JUNE 23, 2022

Hopefully you realize that the best time to invest is when stock prices are low and the worst time is when prices are high. A recent article introduces Betty Badluck, who just happened to invest at the stock market tops during the past 35 years. But patience is a virtue and can have rewards. So what happened to Betty?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

But analysts warn that accountants and corporate finance professionals cannot simply go with the status quo. “Automation, mini-bots, machine learning and adaptive intelligence are becoming part of the finance team at lightning speed,” concluded analysis from Accenture, reports in Forbes said last year. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Artificial intelligence adoption continues to grow in the corporate world, and as businesses look to broaden margins, save money and drive strategic operations, the finance department is a prime target for AI-powered solutions. Corporate performance management software company Prophix announced Tuesday (Sept.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

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. In this role, the cost of capital is an opportunity cost, measuring returns you can earn on investments on equivalent risk.

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Castle Corporate Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The South-East Dealmakers awards are a prestigious event for the Corporate Finance industry and after the non-event of 2020, it was lovely to be able to get together and celebrate in person on the evening of the 2 nd September 2021. Award-winning Castle Corporate Finance help owner-managers buy, sell or fund their businesses.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2023

A nine-time “Professor of the Year” winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals. He received his MBA and Ph.D.

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Accountancy Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

FRP’s debt Advisory team has supported private equity firm Inspirit Capital on its investment in Aquest, a leading human capital services business, in a corporate carve-out from Capita Plc. They have circa 1,000 multinational corporate, SME, and public sector clients operating across a wide variety of industry sectors.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done.

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CFO Talks

AUGUST 21, 2024

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. While digital transformation can improve efficiency and innovation, it also requires significant investment and brings cybersecurity risks.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 31, 2025

Saudi Arabia is experiencing a boom in IPO activity, signaling the liberalization of its economy and a shift away from government-led privatizations that once dominated its investment market. The final offer price is set to be announced on February 19, 2025, with listing expected soon after.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. It is ironic, and perhaps telling, that our understanding of statistics seems to have hit rock bottom in the age of big data.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

For much of the last two years, rather than teach my classes in a classroom, I taught my classes from my home office, making a few low-cost, low-tech investments to improve my set up. My classroom teaching at Stern has been mostly corporate finance and valuation, to both MBAs and undergraduates.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The sale is part of an ongoing initiative to stabilize finances and protect Boeing’s investment-grade credit rating while minimizing shareholder dilution. The financing structure lets the company count bonds as equity, hopefully eschewing concerns about its debt load, a critical factor in maintaining its credit rating.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 27, 2022

One Four Nine Group has announced the launch of its Tax Efficient Alternative Investment panel to all of its locations and advisers, with due diligence support from independent investment research firm Hardman and Co.

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Fox Corporate Finance

APRIL 30, 2024

Zur Verstärkung unseres Investment Banking Teams suchen wir ab sofort Unterstützung als: Investment Banking Investment Banking Associate (m/w/d) – überdurchschnittlich attraktive Vergütung im Topquartil der Investmentbanken – Wir bieten einen einzigartigen Karriereeinstieg/-entwicklung bei FCF als.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2025

The investments in that AI architecture were being made, with the expectation that companies that invested in the architecture would be able to eventually profit from developing and selling AI products and services. This story leaves me with a judgment call to make about the relative sizes of the markets for the two pathways.

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Accountancy Today

MARCH 12, 2025

Grant Thornton UK Northern Corporate Finance team has advised on Maven Capital Partners significant investment in Digital Rewards Group (DRG), a digitally led consumer rewards company. ThinCats provided senior debt funding for the transaction alongside the Maven investment.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Global Finance

MARCH 26, 2025

Mike Hayes, KPMGs Global Climate Change and Decarbonization Leader, adds: It should be noted that while the bulk of global investment will be directed toward sustainable energy and infrastructure, many of these projects involve a critical social dimensionreferred to as the Just Transition.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

Finance leaders are focused on growth, with a record 37% rating an increase in capital investment as a strong priority for their business in the next 12 months, according to Deloitte’s UK CFO Survey Q4 2021. The survey saw 85 chief financial officers (CFOs) participate, including CFOs of 21 FTSE 100 and 29 FTSE 250 companies.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Gerald Edelman’s Corporate Finance team has advised the shareholders of Medical Imaging Systems Limited (MIS) on its investment from H2 Equity Partners (H2). As well as being advised by Gerald Edelman’s Corporate Finance team, the shareholders were also advised from a legal perspective by Fladgate LLP.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 2, 2025

There was a large, continuous increase in write-offs of goodwill in investment in acquisitions. But overconfidence means that they believe their abilities to acquire, to invest, are substantially above their real abilities, and studies have shown that something like 30%, 40% of CEOs are overconfident.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. It is ironic, and perhaps telling, that our understanding of statistics seems to have hit rock bottom in the age of big data.

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Accountancy Today

AUGUST 15, 2022

SMEs are reportedly planning to put a stop on hiring plans because of the current level of economic uncertainty, according to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and The Corporate Finance Network’s (CFN) monthly SME Recover Tracker. Our businesses need some certainty in these uncertain times.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 1, 2024

Corporate finance experts say going public is cool this summer; that’s not the case for a billionaire hedge fund manager’s overhyped IPO. This question has inspired us to reevaluate PSUS’s structure to make the IPO investment decision a straightforward one. We will report back once we are ready to launch a revised transaction.”

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In addition, the acquisition complements Nippon Lifes other recent investments, including a $3.8 Post-acquisition, this share is projected to surge to 20 percent, diversifying revenue streams and reducing dependency on the domestic market. billion stake in Houston-based Corebridge Financial.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

In many ways, these individuals, indeed, are employers, with staff to manage their homes, investment advisors , lawyers and other service providers. Ensuring that credit card or utility bills are paid on time, for example, is a larger burden for these than for the typical individual.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cyrus Lam, CFO of Orion Innovation, draws from an impressive career spanning decades in investment banking and corporate finance to shed light on the transformative role of finance in business strategy.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

The set-up process was seamless and ADGMs legal and regulatory framework offers transparency and predictability, which appeals to global asset managers, says Zia Uddin, president of Monroe Capital, a US-based investment manager that is in the process of establishing a presence in ADGM. The emirate manages some $1.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Accounts receivable (AR) is a function that spreads across multiple tasks of an enterprise, from corporate finance to sales teams and vendor relationship management initiatives. Yet AR has widely been viewed as a friction-filled manual task that doesn’t add value to the organization.

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Global Finance

JULY 30, 2024

The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), to be based in Dallas, will be initially funded with a $120 million investment. Texas’ specialization in the energy sector, meanwhile, would provide energy companies with another avenue for corporate finance solutions.

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Global Finance

JULY 31, 2024

Numerous Indian companies and multinational subsidiaries in India are heading for IPOs in the next few months, as funding capital projects amid India’s infrastructure boom takes precedence over other corporate finance activities. In April, Vi first raised $2.2 billion.

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