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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Annual Supplement: Technology & Treasury Management 2012

ENGINES OF GROWTH The world of corporate treasury is changing. Increasing international growth among developing-markets companies is causing a revolution in how companies manage cash and liquidity—and thus how banks market their transaction products and services. While global banks continue ...

Award Winners

Best Islamic Financial Firms 2012

LANDMARK YEAR By Anita Hawser Last year was a landmark year for Islamic finance—innovative new products were launched and new markets opened up that few would have considered likely candidates just a few years ago. These trends ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Chinese Slowdown And Cyber Attacks: Key Risks For 2012

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Valentina Pasquali Our level of preparedness is not always up to par with the challenges we may be suddenly confronted with. Still recovering from the Haiti earthquake Photo Credit : ARINDAMBANERJEE / Shutterstock.com This is a hard-learned ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company to Watch: Mr Price / South Africa

RETAILER EXPANDS IN NIGERIA By Gordon Platt Mr Price Group has developed a successful retail formula in South Africa that could work well in markets across Africa. The majority of Mr Price’s 1000-plus stores are in South Africa, ...

Country Report

Country Report: Russia

BATTLING THE STATUS QUO By Justin Keay Although the government has pledged to improve the business clime, foreign investors remain skeptical that much-needed reform will happen—at least in the short term. Russia is in a state of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover: Global Impact Of US Energy Boom

THE NEW OIL RUSH By Michael Shari As the US inches closer to its elusive goal of energy independence, the economic ripple effect promises to leave no region or industry of the world untouched. Few would argue ...

News

Danish Banks Fire Moody’s For “Business Reasons”

MILESTONES: DENMARK By Gordon Platt Moody’s Investors Service says something is rotten in Denmark’s mortgage industry. The country’s banks are still issuing interest-only loans, years after the real-estate bubble burst. Copenhagen still home to interest-free mortgages Meanwhile, Denmark’s household ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: EP Energy Issues Debt For Buyout

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Houston pipeline company EP Energy sold $2.75 billion of debt in the high-yield private placement market to fund its buyout by a group of private equity firms led by Apollo Global ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: DR Capital Raising Falls Sharply

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt Investor caution and market-specific issues, such as the presidential election in Russia, put a damper on equity capital raised in the form of depositary receipts in the first quarter ...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: Declining Consensus

For the past couple of years much international economic debate has focused on issues of growth and austerity, while regulatory debate has focused on Basel III and systemic risks...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Building Frontier Markets Access

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The development of new frontier indexes in both the fixed-income and equity markets is making it easier for institutional investors to trade often risky and illiquid securities out of just-developing markets. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Asset Management

SEISMIC SHIFT By Gordon Platt The emerging markets account for an ever-increasing percentage of global investable assets, and the demand for investors' services is growing commensurately. New domestic players are popping up, and global managers are partnering with ...