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Draconian New Turkish Internet Law Culls Investor Confidence
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Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bangladesh: New Parliaments Legitimacy
MILESTONES By Thomas Clouse Bangladesh held national elections in early January despite escalating political violence and a boycott by opposition parties. The ruling party, the Awami League, easily kept control of parliament, with its candidates winning 232 of ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Beale Takes Helm At Lloyds
NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright One of the worlds oldest insurance markets, Lloyds of London, has appointed the first female CEO...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Central Banks Hold Key To FX Moves
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Central bank policies in the major economies will likely be the main guide for currency exchange rates this year, analysts say. Janet Yellen’s confirmation as the new head of the Federal Reserve ...
Banking
Cover Story: The Volcker Effect
PROPRIETARY TRADING By Michael Shari Corporate clients of investment banks around the world could see a dramatic impact from the...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Dubai Gets World Expo Fever
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt The Dubai Financial Market was one of the best-performing equity markets in the world...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Is The Future MINT?
DEAR READER FEBRUARY 2014 | VOL. 28 NO. 2 In 2001, Jim ONeill, then chief economist and head of asset...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging-Markets Debt Issuance Declines
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The volume of emerging-markets corporate debt offerings declined 6.2% in 2013 from a year earlier, even as global high-yield debt issuance set new records, according to Thomson Reuters. Issuers in just three ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: Capital Market Activity Rises
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt A total of $797 billion of equity capital was issued globally in 2013, up 27% from a year earlier, while underwriting fees rose 34%, according to Thomson Reuters. The volume of initial ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Free Bird: Yukos Oils Ex-Chief Released
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia’s most high-profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil—at one point Russia’s largest oil company—was abruptly released. He had served about 10 ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global M&A Falls To Lowest Since 2009
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The value of global mergers and acquisitions has failed to pick up, despite low interest rates and an improving global economy. Worldwide M&A totaled $2.4 trillion in 2013, a decline of 6% ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global Salon: Georges Ugeux
EMERGING MARKETS 2.0 By Udayan Gupta At Global Finance ’s Salon in New York in January, Georges Ugeux, CEO of New York–based investment bank Galileo Global Advisors, discussed the economic landscape faced by India and China in 2014 ...