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The New IPO Playbook | How Private Markets Reshaped Going Public
For most of modern corporate history, going public was the natural next step for a successful company. You built something valuable, you scaled, and at a certain size you ran an initial public offering (IPO): the first sale of a private company's shares on a public exchange, usually to raise growth capital and give early investors a path to liquidity. That was the playbook.
From Pilot to Production: A Practical AI Deployment Playbook for Financial Institutions
Most financial institutions are not struggling with artificial intelligence (AI) capability. They are struggling with AI execution. Large language models (LLMs), agentic architectures, and cloud-native platforms have matured to the point where meaningful automation is within reach for nearly every financial institution. Yet the vast majority of AI programs remain stuck somewhere between proof of concept and production.
When the Model Misses: Why AML Validation Can No Longer Be an Afterthought
For two decades, the assumption within compliance departments was that a transaction monitoring system, once installed and tuned, would do its job in the background. Alerts would fire, analysts would clear them, and an annual independent test would satisfy the regulatory box. That assumption is gone.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – July 7, 2026
Malware Activity Emerging Threats Highlight Risks Across Malware-as-a-Service and AI Ecosystems Recent research highlights how cybercriminals are continuing to expand their capabilities through both traditional malware and emerging AI-driven attack techniques. Researchers identified QuimaRAT, a new cross-platform Remote Access Trojan (RAT) being sold as a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering, enabling threat actors to easily deploy advanced ...
Post-IPO Scrutiny in Hong Kong: Where Investigations Arise in the Current Listing Cycle
Hong Kong reclaimed the global top initial public offering (IPO) spot in 2025, with funds totaling U.S.$37.4 billion being raised, i.e. triple the amount in 2024 (U.S.$10.4 billion) and seven times the amount in 2023 (U.S.$5.5 billion).
The Cost of Disconnection | Why MNCs Can No Longer Afford Siloed Government Affairs and Communications
The operating environment for multinational corporations (MNCs) has undergone a structural shift. Geopolitical volatility, the weaponization of trade policy, and increasingly assertive regulatory environments across major markets have narrowed the playspace for global business. In this environment, two functions — government/public affairs (GA/PA) and communications (comms) — have migrated from the organizational periphery to the strategic core.
Ankura CTIX FLASH Update – July 2, 2026
Malware Activity AI and Open-Source Supply Chains Become New Targets for Developer-Focused Attacks Recent research highlights a growing trend in which threat actors are abusing trusted development tools, automation, and open-source ecosystems to compromise software developers and gain access to valuable systems. In one proof-of-concept attack, researchers demonstrated how AI coding assistants can be manipulated ...
Private Credit’s Real Crisis Is the Coverage
Private credit carries risks. Of course it does. Some borrowers will fail. Some managers will underwrite bad deals. Some products sold to retail investors will prove a poor fit. The question is whether retail investors are being warned about those risks with discipline and context or frightened into abandoning the managers best equipped to navigate them.
Corporate Disputes Feature: How Valuation Shapes High-Stakes Litigation
Valuation has become a defining factor in high-stakes litigation, shaping outcomes on solvency, damages, and recovery.
Case Study | Brownfield‑to‑Data Center: Technical Due Diligence to De‑Risk 300 MW of Capacity
An institutional investor engaged Ankura as its technical advisor to evaluate a former industrial site being repositioned as a large‑scale data center campus with an adjacent high‑voltage substation.
