Julia Poliavich, a seasoned financial expert, who identifies financial management as the missing ingredient for business scaling. Many companies with great products still struggle to scale their business, as financial missteps often hold back otherwise promising firms. In fact, poor financial management is a leading cause of failure for startups.
In the modern world of trade and finance, there exists a specific set of rules that makes it much easier and simpler to maintain transparency and fairness. For example, in Islamic finance, one of the important rules is the prohibition of riba (usury, charging interest) – this is profit obtained
Options today are considered some of the most flexible and interesting instruments that have found their application in financial markets. With their help, modern investors and traders gain the ability to hedge risks, speculate on price movements, and build complex strategies to generate profit. Among the vast number of such
The world of finance offers many unique instruments with which investors can masterfully manage various risks. One of the most popular instruments is called the quanto spread. This instrument demonstrates the difference in the cost of insuring debt obligations (CDS) in different currencies, and it helps simultaneously account for all
The term "cum rights" is well known to everyone who is somehow connected with stock markets. Under this term, cumulative rights to shares are considered, which relate to share trading and shareholders' rights to new issues of securities. At first glance, it seems like a complex legal formulation, but in
In the field of venture capital investments and private equity (PE), various indicators are used that help evaluate the effectiveness of different funds and the application of useful investment strategies. The list of key coefficients includes DVPI (Distributed Value to Paid–In Ratio). This indicator reflects the ratio of actually received
In the modern financial system, derivative financial instruments and leverage occupy a special place. At the same time, they successfully combine high opportunities together with increased risks. Today, these instruments and leverage have found their application in different markets – commodity, stock, and currency markets, and they are used by