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The Private Credit Boom: The Next Big Thing in the Alternatives Market

Download PDF Introduction Private credit denotes any debt or extended to privately held companies. It comes in many different forms, but often involves non-bank firms making loans to private companies or purchasing their debt on the secondary market in a variety of ways. To be more specific, Private credit, also Read more…

By BSIC, 2 years2 years ago
Corporate Finance

Running out of cash: short-term financing before and after the pandemic

Download PDF Introduction This article explores the short-term commercial financing landscape and the most important financial instruments therein. We elaborate on how the coronavirus affected short-term financing of SMEs and how institutions intervened to avoid large scale insolvencies. Subsequently, we detail the most important practices within trade finance and in Read more…

By BSIC, 2 years2 years ago
Corporate Finance

Will PE strategies score? A dive into Sport and Entertainment Investing

Intro There has been a growing interest among private equity firms in the past 5 to 6 years towards sports. During these past recent years, the sports industry has become a major economic sector, exceeding €600bn in value and growing at around 7% annually. The sports’ market is divided into Read more…

By BSIC, 3 years3 years ago
Corporate Finance

The IPO Bonanza (Part 1): IPO Fever Grips World Markets in a Binding Clench

Introduction 2018 was a somehow controversial year in IPO terms, with Q1, Q2 and Q3 building a strong momentum for companies to go public, and Q4 eroding the optimism recorded in the preceding timeframe. Unfortunately, 2019 has opened with the same negative outlook, with scheduled IPOs all throughout the world Read more…

By BSIC, 4 years4 years ago
Corporate Finance

SoftBank’s commitment in WeWork grows to 9% of Vision Fund’s AUM, its long-term tech focused investment arm

SoftBank Group CO [9984:TSE] – Market Cap as of 26/11/2018 JPY 9.614T Introduction SoftBank group (SBG) is a true believer in WeWork’s idea, with a total combination of debt and equity funding in the loss-making U.S. shared office space provider of $8.4 bn. This month, WeWork received an additional $3bn Read more…

By BSIC, 4 years4 years ago
Corporate Finance

Shareholders Activism: recent trends and strategies

Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) – market cap as of 04/05/2018: £7.84bn Introduction Conflicts of interest between shareholders and managers represent an old phenomenon and an inherent element of capitalistic governance systems. It stems from the fact that managers tend to profit from simply because their companies are getting bigger (through higher Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years ago
Corporate Finance

The Battle of Dragons – Recent Acquisitions and Investments in China amid the Rivalry between Alibaba and Tencent

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE:BABA) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: $462.0bn Tencent Holdings Ltd. (HKG:0700) – market cap as of 20/04/2018: HK$3,780bn Introduction The first two weeks of April 2018 have seen a string of aggressive acquisitions and the announcement of financing rounds by companies backed by the Chinese Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years ago
Corporate Finance

Cigna Corporation and Express Scripts: a $67bn deal for their survival in the US healthcare industry

CIGNA Corporation (NYSE:CI) – market cap as of 09/03/2018: $42.7bn Express Scripts Holding Co (NASDAQ:ESRX) – market cap as of 09/03/2018: $45.7bn Introduction On March 8, 2018, Cigna Corporation announced the acquisition of Express Scripts Holding for a cash and stock consideration of $67bn. The combination of Cigna – a Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years5 years ago

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The LSE Alternative Investments Conference is bein The LSE Alternative Investments Conference is being held in London. Here’s the delegation of BSIC members who attended the event.

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BSIC wishes you all a happy and relaxing holiday s BSIC wishes you all a happy and relaxing holiday season! 🎄Here’s a few reading recommendations to enjoy during your time off.

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On December 1st we had our traditional end of seme On December 1st we had our traditional end of semester dinner. Thank you everyone for this amazing year and stay tuned for next semester!

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BSIC is more than a finance club, it’s a group o BSIC is more than a finance club, it’s a group of friends. Here's a few pics from our latest social activity!

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A snapshot into one of BSIC’s activities: the Ge A snapshot into one of BSIC’s activities: the General Discussion.

This week’s GD was held by Matteo, discussing basis trading in fixed income markets.

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