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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Mizuho Recognized for five IFR Awards
Mizuho won top billing as Investment-Grade Corporate Bond House of the Year in the 2023 IFR Awards for consistent leadership on behalf of our clients, taking market share from some of the U.S.’s top bulge-bracket banks.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Mizuho Investor Survey - 2024 Outlook for IG DCM
At the close of 2023, we surveyed bond investors on their sentiment and outlook for the coming year. In the latest installment of Markets Mindset, Mizuho’s Head of IG DCM, Moshe Tomkiewicz, gives his take on key findings from the survey results.
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The analyst: devices on a diet - will GLPs shrink the medtech space?
GLP weight loss medications may soon reshape treatment pathways for a variety of diseases. The potential is so great, in fact, that GLP-1s are causing the most severe, sector-specific correction in the medtech space since COVID-19. Anthony Petrone, Senior Medical Devices, Diagnostics and Therapeutics Equity Research Analyst discusses this dislocation and how you should navigate the current cycle.
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Cleared for Conversation: A Fireside Chat with Apollo’s Jim Zelter
Apollo Co-President Jim Zelter, joined Rich Park, Co-Head of Financial Sponsors & Strategic Solutions at Mizuho Americas, to discuss the alternative asset management firm’s investment strategy during Mizuho’s “Cleared for Conversation: Aviation Insights and Networking Summit” event in October. Mizuho served as Lead Arranger and Advisor to Apollo’s aviation lending platform PK Airfinance’s acquisition of a $920 million portfolio of secured aviation loans from Standard Chartered in August.
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Mizuho Americas wins PFI’s Americas Bank of the Year; Recognized with four deal-specific awards
Mizuho Americas was recognized by Project Finance International (PFI) with five awards in 2023, including Americas Bank of the Year, for its achievements in financing groundbreaking power, energy, and infrastructure projects.
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Mizuho recognized for funding essential energy projects in the Americas
Mizuho Americas is committed to delivering attractive and effective funding solutions in support of critical infrastructure projects serving the energy needs of millions of people. This year, two such transactions were honored with awards from IJ Investor.
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Merging Forces: Is the wave of consolidation in shale over?
The U.S. oil and gas industry is experiencing a period of rapid consolidation, marked by a flurry of mergers and acquisitions. With two of the largest deals announced this year, Nitin Kumar, Senior U.S. Energy Analyst, dissects the impact of this rapid consolidation and how the current market landscape plays a role in these major acquisitions.
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Category: community Community
Start Small Think Big Inc: Growing Businesses, Shrinking Barriers
In 2010, Start Small Think Big was founded with the goal of helping historically marginalized and low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs succeed. To date, the organization has grown substantially with resources tailored to addressing the unique needs of its network of 10,000 small businesses. Learn more about their commitment to furthering social and economic equity.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Finance Leaders Forum: A Conversation with Kevin Costantino, Seth Mair and Moshe Tomkiewicz
The period of cash-only (or mostly) M&A transactions spurred by near zero interest rates has been replaced with tighter monetary policy, uncertain capital markets, anti-trust regulatory challenges and geopolitical conflicts. During our recent Finance Leaders Forum in September, Atish Basu, Mizuho Americas’ Head of Industrials Investment & Corporate Banking, led a panel discussion with Kevin Costantino, President and Co-Head of US M&A, Greenhill & Co. and Mizuho Americas’ Moshe Tomkiewicz, Head of Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets, and Seth Mair, Managing Director, Head of Investment Grade Loan Capital Markets, on current M&A dealmaking and financing trends as the market adjusts to a new normal.