You worked with a number of different investment banks before joining AST—how does that experience impact upon your role at AST and what are some of the distinctions between AST’s organisation and some of those banks’ technology culture? Technology at those firms and at AST is not only essential to our business but is a […]
The investment banking giant's demand for diversity on the boards of companies it helps to go public is a welcome – and justified – step in the right direction.
Following the first Exit polls on Thursday night, businesses and investors enjoyed an evening to remember as the pound and UK businesses welcomed the news of a Boris Johnson victory.
We hear from Stuart Noyes, Founder and Managing Partner of Winter Harbor – a Boston-based firm which provides restructuring and turnaround expertise to middle-market companies facing operational and financial decline in an effort to improve their operational performance, liquidity, and capital structure, and efficiently implement change. Since its founding in 2012, Winter Harbor has worked on nearly 250 cases, successfully stabilising distressed and underperforming companies
Given all the attention surrounding Facebook’s plans to create a digital currency, Facebook Libra will no doubt be familiar to many of you. Libra is Facebook’s latest proposal for a blockchain-based global cryptocurrency, aiming to bring more affordable transactions to the masses.
Tell us about MelCap Partners and the services it offers? MelCap Partners is a boutique investment banking advisory firm that has been providing M&A advisory services, the private placement of debt and equity capital, and general advisory services for nearly 20 years. MelCap is located in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area with a team of […]
What led to the foundation of FJVA? In 1998, my father, Francis J. Vassallo, had concluded his term as Governor of the Central Bank of Malta in which he was instrumental in liberalising Malta’s economy and directing it towards EU membership. At that time, I was working with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and my […]
Omiros, please introduce us to Brookstreet. Brookstreet is a unique, commercially motivated and flexible Private Equity/Venture Capital (PEVC) investment group supporting companies which experience transformational growth. Our mission is to be the leading investor and partner for innovative, profitable, high-growth and extrovert small-cap (SME) out-performers. Based out of London (the bridge of the world), we […]
“Trends point to a very different reality for boards today than five or ten years ago”, says Susan C. Keating, CEO of WCD. “With boards asking more questions of management and exercising more oversight in areas that were once fully ‘owned’ by the leadership team, Directors require much more real-time information and awareness than ever […]
Why do strategies fail? When coming up with a strategy, how good are the assumptions you have made about markets, competitors, capabilities, costs, regulation and technology? Is your strategy still viable if assumptions go wrong? Are your structures, processes, decision-making mechanisms, metrics and reward systems future-facing? Whether your business is a large, multi-national player or […]
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