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Editor’s Letter: All Eyes On The Big Players
DEAR READER NOVEMBER 2013 | VOL. 27 NO. 10 A few months ago nobody would have expected the United States...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: Coming Out Party
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Led by growth companies in the technology and healthcare sectors, investor returns on initial...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Foreign Exchange 2013: Corporate FX Technology
VOLATILE TIMES: GETTING A GRIP ON RISK By Rob Daly Corporate treasurers now have ever-more-sophisticated tools to help get a handle on currency exposures and manage increasingly volatile FX market risk. It has been interesting times for currency exchange rates, ...
Banking
Foreign Exchange 2013: Global Reserves Diversification
EMERGING STATUS By Gordon Platt Emerging markets currencies are beginning to get some respect from central banks. The Federal Reserves decision to delay tapering its monetary stimulus has provided a temporary boost to emerging markets currencies and financial markets. And ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Foreign Exchange 2013: Measuring Up
The foreign exchange market, the largest asset class in the world, is continuing to grow and evolve. Globally, FX trading averaged $5.3 trillion a day in April 2013, up from $4 trillion per day in April 2010 and $3.3 trillion ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Foreign Exchange 2013: Renminbi Trading
RENMINBI RUCKUS By Gordon Platt London and Paris are vying to become Europe’s renminbi trading hub. Paris is challenging London, the leading center of foreign exchange trading globally, to be the hub of renminbi trading in Europe. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Foreign Exchange 2013: Whos Who
Global Finances annual list of the most important players in forex. By Gordon Platt BMO Capital Markets CJ Gavsie Managing director and global head of foreign exchange products and China capital markets Gavsie is responsible for BMOs global foreign exchange ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Frontier Markets Report: Croatia
WAITING IN THE WINGS By Dan Keeler Croatia hopes its membership in the EU will help it diversify and deepen its economy, but it could take some time for that to materialize. Croatia joined the European Union in July this ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Germany: Siemens CEO Wields Ax
NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright After just over a couple of months as Siemens new CEO, Joe Kaeser has announced he...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
India: Ex-Tea Vendor To Bag PM Post?
NEWSMAKERS By KA Badarinath Once a tea vendor, Narendra Modi—now a main candidate for prime minister of India—has come a long way in the past 30 years. The 63-year-old Modi has entered the fray for the May 2014 election race ...
Banking
India: New Central Bank Governor Zigs
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Aaron Chaze Amid what is being regarded as Indias worst financial crisis in more than a decadewith the currency having plunged 15.9% against the US dollar in the third quarter, GDP growth at 4.4% in the ...
Banking
Islamic Trade Finance: New Silk Road Getting Crowded
SPECIAL REPORT: ISLAMIC TRADE FINANCE By Anita Hawser Islamic trade finance is of increasing interest, but whether it will be successful depends on market forces. Shariah-compliant trade finance is an ancient tradition with a long history of supporting economic activity ...