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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity Derivatives
FLYING BLIND By Anita Hawser Despite new entrants joining the market, the equity derivatives business saw a marked slowdown over the past year, and some well-established firms are now scaling back their operations. After the global financial ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: Global IPO Market Shrinks
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt Global initial public offerings declined 29% in 2012 to $117 billion, reflecting steep declines in IPO issuance in Hong Kong and China, according to Thomson Reuters. On ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Frontier Markets Networking Event
LOCATION | NEW YORK CITY To celebrate the launch of its new monthly section on Frontier Markets, Global Finance held a networking event in January at the Harvard Club in New York. Frontier markets specialists and investors from around ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Frontier Markets Report: Ghana
STAKING ITS CLAIM By Dan Keeler A history of stability, a growing middle class and a rapidly expanding economy are among the key assets of this West African gem. Photo Credits: REUTERS / YAW BIBINI Ghana has ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Central Banks Key To 2013 FX Moves
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Central bank policies could create some interesting opportunities in the foreign exchange markets in 2013, despite what could be a slow-growth environment, analysts say. “We expect the newly elected Japanese ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A: Record Spin-Offs Boost Global M&A
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Thanks in large part to record levels of spin-offs and divestitures, global mergers and acquisitions achieved a 2% gain in 2012 to $2.6 trillion, according to Thomson Reuters. ...
Banking
Market Focus: Asian Investment Banking
ANOTHER LEAN YEAR By Arthur Clennam Investment banks in Asia are facing a reduced deal pipeline and slashing their fixed-income, currencies and commodities units. But a flurry of small-scale Chinese IPOs in Hong Kong could add cheer to ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestone: Basel III Liquidity Reprieve Welcomed By Most
MILESTONESGLOBAL By Luca Ventura “For the first time in regulatory history, we have a truly global minimum standard for bank liquidity,” announced the head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Bank of England governor Mervyn King, during a ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestone: Comesa Seeks Funding From Within To Drive Down Trade Finance Costs
MILESTONES: AFRICA By Alfred Sayila With member states’ foreign exchange reserves reaching a record $112 billion in 12 years, countries in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), Africa’s leading trade body, may soon have a cheap new ...
Banking
Milestone: Enforcement Will Only Get Tougher Under New FSA Regime
MILESTONES: UK By Anita Hawser After four years under a shadow, the UK’s Financial Services Authority is once again being held up as a model financial regulator — both for its principles-based approach to reporting and for its ability to ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestone: Growing Chorus At Home Urges UK To Break With Brussels
MILESTONES: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali On the tail of the European economic crisis, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union is nearing a breaking point. While in Brussels some members are pushing for further integration, in ...