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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Energy, Resources Deals Heat Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Pipeline deals, shale-energy plays and natural resources transactions—often involving Asian buyers—provided an energetic start to mergers and acquisitions in 2013. The overall January deal totals for the Americas ...

Banking

Middle East Investment Banking

SIGNS OF RESILIENCE By Gordon Platt In spite of poor global economic and investment conditions, Middle Eastern investment banking looks set for another solid year in 2013. The outlook for investment banking in the volatile Middle East ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestone: Cash Transfer Program Heralds A New Dawn

MILESTONEINDIA By Kim Iskyan On the first day of 2013, the Indian government formally launched a program to distribute subsidy benefits and social welfare payments directly to the bank accounts of recipients. Photo Credits: PAWEL PIETRASZEWSKI/ Shutterstock.com Once the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestone: Moscow’S Stock Exchange Goes Public

MILESTONERUSSIA By Udayan Gupta The Russians are taking a page out of the Dutch East India Company’s playbook of 1602. In mid-February Russia recapitalized the Moscow Stock Exchange by selling $1 billion of shares in an IPO of the ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestone: Spain Cuts Red Tape In An Effort To Help Businesses

MILESTONE: SPAIN By Forrest Jones Spain wants to make life a little easier for its business sector. Recently, Madrid drafted legislation to make it simpler for companies to conduct business in different autonomous regions within the country ...

Banking

Milestone: The World’S Oldest Surviving Bank Faces A Bleak Future

MILESTONE: ITALY By Luca Ventura The oldest bank in the world, Tuscany’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena, came close to ending its 540-year history late in January, when it revealed losses of up to €750 million ($1 billion) caused ...

News

Newsmaker: Heins Aims To Resurrect Moribund BlackBerry

NEWSMAKER CANADA By Gilly Wright Not one to do anything by halves, BlackBerry’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, has overseen the launch of a new operating system called BlackBerry 10 and its first non-keyboard smartphone, the Z10. Heins hopes to shape ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmaker: Speculation Is Rife About Fischer’s Next Move

NEWSMAKER ISRAEL By David Lipkin Stanley Fischer is set to retire as governor of the Bank of Israel at the end of June. Fischer, guardian of Israel’s economy, bows out gracefully He will be remembered as one of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmaker: Turkey’s PM Gives EU Ultimatum Over Membership

NEWSMAKER TURKEY By Valentina Pasquali Conveying the feelings of a large swath of the Turkish population, which is increasingly tired of the stalled accession negotiations with the European Union, prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan recently threatened to abandon ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

News & Features Archive

M&A: Energy, Resources Deals Heat Up

Middle East Investment Banking

Milestone: Cash Transfer Program Heralds A New Dawn

Milestone: Moscow’S Stock Exchange Goes Public

Milestone: Spain Cuts Red Tape In An Effort To Help Businesses

Milestone: The World’S Oldest Surviving Bank Faces A Bleak Future

Newsmaker: Heins Aims To Resurrect Moribund BlackBerry

Newsmaker: Speculation Is Rife About Fischer’s Next Move

Newsmaker: Turkey’s PM Gives EU Ultimatum Over Membership

Newsmaker: White’s SEC Appointment Sends Mixed Message

Regional Report: Latin America

Risk Management: Executive Liability