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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2012: Global Winners
By Anita Hawser and Paula Green BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDER—BANK Citi With trade and supplier finance capabilities in more than 80 countries, few providers can match Citi's extensive geographical footprint. It provides different forms of supplier finance (receivables ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2012: Regional Winners
By Anita Hawser NORTH AMERICA Citi Citi is the leading provider of export-credit-agency–backed transactions, and in 2011 in conjunction with the US Export-Import Bank it launched its second ECA–guaranteed supply chain financing with participation of up to $1 billion ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Country Report: Nigeria
TIME FOR CHANGE By Antonio Guerrero Nigeria holds great promise with its massive oil reserves, but endemic corruption, unfettered militant attacks on pipelines and lack of regulatory clarity could halt progress in its tracks. When the Nigerian ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Country Report: Portugal
PRIME TARGET By Vanessa Drucker Portugal is being held up as a model of reform in meeting its fiscal restructuring targets, but it faces a drag on growth from financial sector deleveraging. Meanwhile, Portuguese firms have become prime ...
Banking
Cover: Will Japan Regain Its Greatness?
WILL JAPAN REGAIN ITS GREATNESS? By Michael Shari Business is trying to resurrect Asia's economic miracle a year and a half after the Tohoku tragedy. Tokyo is enjoying a long-deserved renaissance. Young professionals are converging from all ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt: Inmet Mining Funds Panama Project
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Inmet Mining, a global mining company based in Toronto, placed $1.5 billion of senior notes in the US high-yield debt market to fund a copper-mining project in Panama, in which ...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Summer Revival?
The summer has been alive with global central bank activityfrom lower interest rates to new and more creative monetary measures...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Emerging Markets Roundup: Africa
FEELING THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC CONTAGION By Antonio Guerrero The Africa Finance Corp, a multilateral finance institution based in Nigeria, says it has a pipeline of sub-Saharan investment projects worth $3 billion over the next year. The AFC ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil
TIME-OUT FOR BRAZIL'S GROWTH BOOM By Antonio Guerrero Brazil's growth explosion could be ending. The Brazilian central bank in June cut the official growth target from 3.5% to 2.5% for 2012, after first-quarter GDP expansion was a meager ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Roundup: China
CHINESE EXPORTS DEFY EXPECTATIONS By Thomas Clouse China has given its banks more freedom to determine their own interest rates by declaring in June that banks could offer lenders rates as low as 80% of the official rate ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Emerging Markets Roundup: India
GOVERNMENT TO SELL OFF STAKES, REDUCE DEFICIT By Aaron Chaze The administration announced renewed efforts to sell stakes in government-run companies in order to reduce the fiscal deficit. It plans to raise INR300 billion ($5.4 billion) by ...