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SAFEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2012
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Emerging Market Banks 2012 in Sub-Saharan Africa NEW YORK, November 6, 2012 Global Finance magazine...
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SAFEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2012
GLOBAL FINANCE names the Safest Emerging Market Banks 2012 in the Middle East NEW YORK, November 6, 2012 Global Finance...
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Awards: Stars of China 2012
NEW BALANCING ACT By Thomas Clouse Chinese policymakers must find news ways to boost domestic consumption and reduce economic reliance on stimulus investing in order to balance short- and long-term growth goals. China's economic planners have performed ...
Country Report
Country Report: Lebanon
AGAINST ALL ODDS By Justin Keay Mid-20th-century tourists flocked to Lebanon, the Switzerland of the East. War and instability long ago changed that. Now, with the Syrian conflict spilling over its borders, the country faces yet another round ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover: The Relevance Of Stock Exchanges
IDENTITY CRISIS By Udayan Gupta As stock exchanges worldwide try to figure out their role going forward in corporate equity and equity capital raising, companies are starting to question whether there is still value in a public listing. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt: Central Banks Aid Corporate Rally
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Corporate debt issuance soared and yields on high-yield as well as investment-grade bonds fell to record lows in September after the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
DRs: Russia, Mexico Depositary Receipts
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, raised $5 billion in a secondary share sale in London and Moscow in September that had been delayed for more than a year because of unfavorable ...
Banking
Editor’s Letter: Forecasts May Be Down,But Hope Is Rising
The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Tokyo in October confirmed that the economic slowdown of Europe, and to a lesser extent of Japan and the US, has negatively affected emerging markets growth...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: China
NO-SHOW AT IMF By Thomas Clouse China’s once-a-decade leadership transition will begin on November 8 at the Communist Party’s 18th Congress. Chinese banks skipped the World Bank/IMF meetings in Tokyo last month amid a territorial dispute with Japan, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX Supplement: FX Market Overview
FX EXCELS WHILE OTHER ASSETS FALTER By Gordon Platt The FX markets are evolving: Trade and currency internationalization, and the shift toward exchanges, will further this process. Foreign exchange has proven itself as a separate asset class ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX Supplement: Introduction: Uncertainty Reigns
UNCERTAINTY REIGNS The foreign exchange market is going through a period of significant change on multiple fronts. New regulations introduced in the wake of the financial crisis will redefine users of foreign exchange services and divide the market into ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX Supplement: The Euro Belies the Pessimists
PROFITING FROM THE BEAUTY PAGEANT By Laurence Neville Despite the eurozone’s debt woes, the euro has remained remarkably resilient thanks to a range of factors, including a more credible ECB under Mario Draghi and diversification away from the ...