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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets – tech, media & telecom: Q2 2022 review
Equity markets continued their downward trend in Q2 2022 as the S&P 500 suffered its worst first half of a year since Nixon's presidency in 1970. The TMT team provides thoughts, themes, and Mizuho highlights from the quarter.
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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets - Healthcare: Q2 2022 review
Mizuho's Equity Capital Markets team takes measure of where we are and contemplates a path forward for the healthcare markets, looking at IPO, M&A, follow-on and alternative capital transactions during Q2.
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Category: Trends
Global company, global solutions
In our new series Blindspots, which examines the evolving role of the CFO, Abhishek Gupta, Chief Financial Officer of OYO, sat down with Anil Mittal, Managing Director, Industrials at Mizuho. OYO is an Indian multinational technology startup that has expanded to more than 150K+ hotels and vacation homes across 35+ countries. With over 100 million app downloads, it is the third-most-downloaded travel app globally. Abhishek and Anil discuss the hospitality industry during COVID, managing the challenges of a global business, and preparing to take the company public.
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Category: Expert Opinions
Navigating your career in a post-pandemic business world: Advice for this new chapter
Upheaval has forged a uniquely flexible, adaptable faction of emerging talent entering the workforce, says Michal Katz, Head of Investment & Corporate Banking. She provides a few pieces of advice for recent graduates navigating this next phase of their lives.
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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets - healthcare: Q1 2022 review
Issuers, for the most part, were willing to sit this quarter out, say Kevin Davies and Stephen Roney, Healthcare Investment & Corporate Banking. They provide a detailed look at the healthcare market’s rough Q1, and advice for issuers on the path forward.
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Category: Expert Opinions
Mizuho rating agency energy panel discussions 2022: Agencies exude calm through a geopolitical storm
With energy markets experiencing disruptions on a scale not seen in decades, there was plenty to talk about at Mizuho’s fourth annual rating agency panel, which focused on prospects for production growth and the adequacy of infrastructure investments to keep up with shifting energy flows. Michael Gorelick, Head of Ratings Advisory, provides key highlights.
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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets – tech, media & telecom: Q1 2022 review
Facing a multitude of macro headwinds ranging from ongoing inflationary pressures to geopolitical tensions, equity markets have been quite turbulent. Head of TMT ECM & SPAC Origination Andy Laszlo recaps the TMT market over the first quarter.
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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets – software: 2021 year in review
Despite pandemic headwinds, the software sector has been one of the best performing sectors over the past two years. Head of TMT ECM & SPAC Origination Andy Laszlo looks at the key trends benefiting the industry.
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Category: Trends
Equity capital markets – tech, media & telecom: 2021 year in review
TMT dethroned Healthcare for the most active sector in the market in 2021. Andy Laszlo walks us through the markets and Mizuho’s record ECM year, and shares his thoughts and themes looking ahead.