The Impact of Law and Corruption on Venture Capital and Private Equity Fees and...

By Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, Sofia Johan & Dorra Najar This article summarises recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture...

The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century

By Jay W. Lorsch Predicting the challenges boards will face in the years ahead requires an understanding of how they and the governance they have...

The ICBC Path to Chinese Governance: Lessons for the Western and Emerging Markets

By Didier Cossin & Abraham Lu Since its dual IPOs in 2007, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), one of the largest...

Eternal Economic Return: The Global Economic Crisis through the Lens of History

By Larry Allen Looking back at previous waves of economic crisis, economic historian Larry Allen illuminates our global predicament by uncovering the interlocked economic processes...

Capital Flight and Global Crisis: In Search of a Barometer of Country Risk

By Michel Henry Bouchet The global crisis and the austerity programmes in most developed countries have cast light on the role of expatriated savings in...

The Impact of Hedge Fund Regulation: An International Perspective

By Douglas Cumming, Na Dai & Sofia Johan The success of a hedge fund relies on more than just internal structure and governance. The jurisdiction...

Fair Lending Compliance for Mortgage Lenders – An International Concern

By Anna DeSimone Both the U.S. and the European Union are addressing the problems believed to have created the financial crisis by heightening consumer protection...

Confronting the New Reality: Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis and the State

By John Farrar &David Mayes Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. John Farrar and David Mayes discuss the...

Trade Imbalances and the Global Financial Crisis

By Michael Pettis The source of the global crisis through which we are living can be found in the great trade and capital flow imbalances...

Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma

By Dirk Schoenmaker International banking is at the cross-roads. Are we heading for the decentralised banking model, by which banks are split in national subsidiaries...

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The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI

By Terence Tse CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value. A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...

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