When buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC was seeking lenders to finance its acquisition of business software company Anaplan Inc last month, it skipped banks and went directly to private equity…
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) issued a circular on April 13th 2015 directing the stock exchanges, National Clearing Company of Pakistan (NCCL) and Central Depository Company of…
The way capital markets declined in February and March this year, it was thought as it may be a repetition of the 2008 crisis. During this period, the KSE Index…
Capital market is an important barometer of the health of an economy and important component of the financial sector. It is a vehicle whereby capital is deployed from sources where…
Pakistan does not need reactive financial market regulation where regulators focus their resources and energies on witch-hunts and indiscriminate issuance of show-cause notices to intermediaries after ordinary investors have been…
Good news of a tentative deal for the US debt ceiling impasse may quickly turn out to be bad news for financial markets. US President Joe Biden and top congressional…
There is more than Rs8.5 trillion of currency in circulation sloshing around in the economy. This is capital, or funds that stay outside the formal financial system. The increase in…
Markets, bracing for a “no landing” scenario where global economic growth is resilient and inflation stays higher for longer, are dialling back appetite for both risk assets and government debt.…
The prospect of US interest rates climbing to levels last seen in the run-up to the global financial crisis has cast a fresh pall over emerging economies that have battled…
Excerpted: ‘Are We Heading Towards a Capitalist Supernova?’. Global debt – of households, private firms and governments – reached a staggering $305tn (254tn GBP) in 2021, up from $83tn in…
