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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: New China Life Raises $1.9 Billion

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt New China Life Insurance raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai in December, but it was forced to price the issue at the bottom of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Mexican Exchange Woos High-Frequency Traders

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores exchange in Mexico City says it will introduce faster trading technology by the middle of 2012 in an effort to attract more high-frequency traders. BMV says ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Environmental Risk Insurance

ENVIRONMENTAL INSURANCE: GLOBAL EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT By Anita Hawser Environmental risk insurers are offering more sophisticated solutions and a broader range of coverage amounts. A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Moerdijk, Netherlands, in January 2011. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Eurozone Plan Is A Start

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Another EU summit ended in December with agreement on a new fiscal compact for the eurozone, but like previous efforts to rescue the common currency, the accord was less than comprehensive, and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Salon

WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY By Matt Greco Global Finance sat down with Martin Fridson, high-yield market specialist and global credit strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management, in early December to get his take on US and global debt markets ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Lingering Risks

Europe may be the center of attention at the start of the new year, but it is certainly not the only area of the world that worries economists and policymakers...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Anglo American Controls De Beers

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, gained a long-coveted majority stake in diamond mining company De Beers, in one of two M&A deals that the British firm ...

News

Mistry To Take The Helm At Tata Sons

NEWSMAKERS: INDIA By Aaron Chaze After two decades leading India’s largest and most respected conglomerate, Ratan Tata will step down in December 2012 as chairman of Tata Sons—the holding company that runs the $83 billion Tata group of companies, with ...

News

Rajoy Hopes To Reassure Investors In Spain

NEWSMAKERS: SPAIN By Valentina Pasquali Like Greece and Italy, Spain too has a new government, tasked with bringing the country back from the brink. Rajoy heads new government Unlike Greece’s Lucas Papademos and Italy’s Mario Monti, Spain’s prime ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Resource-Rich Myanmar Open For Investment

MILESTONES: MYANMAR By Thomas Clouse Preparing to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2014, Myanmar is also opening its doors to foreign investment. A new dawn breaks in Myanmar, which is open for business Leaders from ASEAN’s ...

News

Sanusi Fears Impact Of European Crisis

NEWSMAKERS: NIGERIA By Anita Hawser Nigerian central bank governor Lamido Sanusi believes the likelihood of European banks going into a major crisis is quite high, and is concerned over the impact on Nigerian oil exports. Sanusi looks to Asia ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Sector Report: Commodities

COMMODITIES TEST THE BORDERS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE By Michael Shari Commodity producers are turning to specialized banks that are willing to take multiple layers of risk in private deals. Great ideas are born at times like these. ...