Capital Markets

Framing the Issues: Financial-Sector Development and Expanding Access to Credit in Myanmar

On July 26, 2017, the Myanmar Development Institute partnered with the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets to host a strategic roundtable in Yangon. As part of the roundtable, financial-market regulators, officials from domestic...
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John Schellhase

Director, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
John Schellhase is a director of Strategic Philanthropy at the Milken Institute. He contributes to and manages projects related to strengthening corporate philanthropy, including overseeing the Institute’s Corporate Philanthropy Leadership Collective.

Intervention China-style

China’s dramatic devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia worried about the prospects of a currency war, even as attention had begun to turn to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Some in Beijing may well have...
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Fear of a Currency War Grows

HONG KONG – While China may well have hoped to focus on the end of World War II and Japan’s wartime record, the Chinese central bank’s major devaluation of the yuan this week has large parts of Asia now worried about the prospects of a...
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Companies Rush to Go Private

Private capital markets have become a favored alternative source of company financing. In addition, private equity firms have become more innovative in developing options for financing the growth of small and emerging firms, and converting...
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