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Category: perspectives Perspectives
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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Category: perspectives Perspectives
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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Category: perspectives Perspectives
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: 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.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Capital Markets Q3 2023 Perspectives: Debt Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance
In our latest Markets Mindset roundtable, Mizuho Investment & Corporate Banking experts, Jeb Slowik and Moshe Tomkiewicz give their thoughts on recent trends within the Leveraged Finance and Investment Grade markets respectively. Victor Forte, Head of Investment Grade Capital Markets & Syndicate, leads the discussion on the factors affecting their markets including recent events in the Middle East and if the Fed will keep rates higher for longer.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Mizuho Americas recognized for funding transformative projects in Latin America
Mizuho Americas plays an active role in helping support LatAm infrastructure through its financing of critical projects designed to accelerate progress in the region and improve the quality of life of its population. Two such deals were just acknowledged with LatinFinance 2023 Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Capital Markets Q3 2023 Perspectives: A Focus on ECM
In this quarter’s Markets Mindset, Mizuho experts Josh Weismer and Andy Laszlo explore the current state of Equity Capital Markets, their insights from Q3 and outlook for the remainder of 2023 and beyond. After a volatile 18 months, the IPO market is rebounding. Alignment between investor demand and seller valuation has led to increased activity spurred by deal making in the Technology, Media & Telecom sector.
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Finance Leaders Forum: A Conversation with Eric Rosengren, Former President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Steven Ricchiuto, Chief Economist at Mizuho Americas, sat down with Eric Rosengren, Former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to discuss the U.S. macroeconomic outlook, what factors go into interest rate policymaking and what steps the Fed may take to achieve its targeted inflation rate.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Trailblazers: A Conversation with Lise Buyer, Founder of Class V Group
When will the IPO markets reopen? Few are better placed to answer this question than Lise Buyer, founder of IPO advisory firm, Class V Group.