Ciaran Ryan

From CFODive.com: Record monetary and fiscal stimulus is flooding markets with liquidity, giving CFOs an unusual opportunity to improve capital structure. Financial executives searching today’s markets for ways to raise capital on good terms have rarely come across a more promising landscape. Record monetary and fiscal stimulus has stoked equity markets and pushed down interest …

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From IAFEI December 2020 Quarterly Bulletin. By Jacques van Wyk, JGL Forensic Services, Member IAFEI Technical Committee Transparency and compliance are critical to how your business does business. There’s no doubt that good compliance policy’s help you meet demanding global compliance and privacy requirements – and avoid fines! But regulations are constantly changing, the amount …

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From Cfo.com: Fifty-seven new campaigns launched in Q4, pressuring the management teams of Intel, Public Storage, ExxonMobil, and The Walt Disney Company, among others. Through the first three quarters of 2020, all was relatively quiet on the global shareholder activism front. Then, in the fourth quarter, activists broke loose. Fifty-seven new campaigns launched, including broadsides …

CFOs Faced Late Activism Surge, ESG Demands in 2020 Read More »

From WSJ: The recent surge in some company stocks is providing finance executives with a sudden window of opportunity to tap new sources of funding. But not all of them are likely to cash in, as it takes time to prepare an equity sale, and businesses risk raising the ire of regulators if the share …

Stock-Market Frenzy Offers Some CFOs a Chance to Cash In Read More »

From the IAFEI December 2020 Quarterly Bulletin. Prepared by the CFE Tax Technology Committee. Submitted to the EU Commission Platform for Tax Good Governance. CFE Tax Advisors Europe Is a leading European Association of tax institutes and associations of tax advisors. CFE is part of the European Union Transparency Register No. 3543183647-05. we will be …

Corporate tax policy in the EU – key priorities and Q&A Read More »

With a continent increasingly characterised by corporate scandals, cyber threats, new technology, transparency requirements and an ever-changing regulatory environment, the demands on the modern CFO have become greater than ever before. Within this milieu, it has become necessary to reassess the role of the CFO – what they do and the underlying competencies and qualifications …

New Africa-wide association set to boost CFO role in Africa Read More »