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Category: community Community
Grameen America: microlending, macro impact
Grameen America focuses exclusively microlending to low-income women running small businesses in The United States and recently surpassed $4 billion invested in 190,000 entrepreneurs.
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Category: perspectives Perspectives
Mizuho Growth Conference '24: exploring equity and private capital markets, M&A and more
Mizuho recently hosted its inaugural Growth Conference to showcase early-stage Israeli firms in the tech and healthcare space to investors. During the lunch panel, attendees heard from Mizuho and Greenhill & Co. experts on the outlook for monetization strategies in equity and private capital markets and M&A. Open windows in the IPO market followed by renewed interest in the private market are creating fertile ground for more investment. Megadeals in energy and healthcare have driven M&A volume so far in 2024, but headwinds continue persist for the remainder of 2024, highlighting the importance of creative financing strategies and structural considerations designed to bridge valuation gaps.
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Category: research Research
The analyst: what is the future of renewables?
The future of renewables is vast with many opportunities for growth. We estimate the US will spend $50 to $90 billion dollars per year on the sector over the next few decades. Maheep Mandloi, Senior Clean Energy Equity Research Analyst, explores what’s driving the demand, emerging technologies, and potential risks in our recent series, “The Analyst.”
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Category: market-trends Market Trends
Unearthing opportunity: Investing in IT services as the 'picks and shovels' of the AI revolution
With the rapid pace of technological development and acceleration of AI integration, IT service providers are set to become major players in the AI revolution. Dan Dolev, Senior FinTech Equity Research Analyst, and Sean Kennedy, Payments & IT Services Equity Research Analyst, look at how IT services may play a transformative role across industries and the potential opportunities for investors.
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Category: market-trends Market Trends
Wired for change: how new legislation and an expanding grid are shaping the clean energy landscape
Operating amidst steep headwinds and a period of rapid change, the clean energy industry faces an uncertain future, but 2024 is set to be a pivotal and clarifying year for the space. Maheep Mandloi, Senior Clean Energy Equity Research Analyst, looks at how new legislation and the political landscape will impact the already complex industry, and how analysts and investors can prepare going forward.
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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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Category: research Research
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.