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Rate Hikes and Legoland: South Korea’s Bond Market Woes

29

Nov

All Posts, Economy, Economy and Government, World

Rate Hikes and Legoland: South Korea’s Bond Market Woes

By Edward Ding (image: iStock) For the South Korean bond market, 2022 has gone from bad to worse. Markets in Korea have been grappling with the same macro problems that have afflicted much of the world: high inflation, global recession fears, and monetary tightening have all converged to crimp corporate…

Leveraged Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here

30

Oct

By Edward Ding

All Posts, Finance, Finance and Business Insight

Leveraged Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here

By Edward Ding (Featured image: creative common license) It would be an understatement to say that corporate debt is important. From Coca-Cola toTwitter, corporations are frequent borrowers that use bonds and loans to fund a wide range of difference business activities. Much of this debt financing occurs on the public…

Financial Greenwashing for Dummies (and other related concepts)

25

Sep

By Edward Ding

All Posts, Finance, Sustainability

Financial Greenwashing for Dummies (and other related concepts)

By Edward Ding Sustainability, ESG, GBPs. What do any of these things actually mean? Before we can get into a discussion about financial greenwashing, we first need to understand the meaning of “green” and a few other ideas. Our first definition is of principles related to ESG: Environmental, Social, and…

Down But Not Out: SMIC’s Rocky Path Forward

24

Mar

By Edward Ding

All Posts, Businesses, Industries, Technology, World

Down But Not Out: SMIC’s Rocky Path Forward

By: Edward Ding December 18, 2020 was a particularly bad day for SMIC, China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer. The U.S. government blacklisted dozens of Chinese companies, including SMIC, and effectively restricted their purchase of advanced U.S. technology. SMIC, already behind foreign competitors in terms of chip technology, found its plans for…