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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The US market for initial public offerings sprang to life in November, following a two-month drought. The successful $700 million offering by Groupon, which was the largest IPO by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Risk aversion appeared to be creeping back into the markets in early November, as the initial euphoria about the eurozone’s master plan to solve the debt crisis began to fade. ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Global Salon

PARADIGM SHIFT By Vanessa Drucker As part of its Salon series, Global Finance sat down on November 1 with Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar . ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hopes For Era Of Stability In Kyrgyzstan

MILESTONES: KYRGYZSTAN By Kim Iskyan Late October’s landslide victory of incumbent prime minister Almazbek Atambayev as the new president of Kyrgyzstan may bring a modicum of stability to the country’s tumultuous domestic political environment. Atambayev may favor ...

News

Jon Corzine Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and once a US senator, believes that a man’s word is his bond. Fallout from MF Global raises concerns over CFTC watchfulness When ...

Banking

Living Wills Improve Banks’ Crisis And Risk Management

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser While the focus at the moment may be on bailing out indebted countries in the eurozone, one of the legacies of Lehman’s collapse is the need for systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: US Shale-Gas Boom Attracts FDI

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Foreign buyers accounted for 76% of the total value of US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter of this year, with 22 deals valued at ...

News

New Hydrocarbon Deposit May Kick-start Cyprian Economy

MILESTONES: CYPRUS By Justin Keay These are roller coaster times for Cyprus. Resource wealth to benefit Cypriots But there may be very good news on the horizon. US company Noble Energy is drilling offshore close to where ...

Award Winners

Safest Emerging Markets Banks 2011

ASIAN DOMINANCE By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance ’s first annual ranking of the Top 50 Safest Banks in the Emerging Markets. The ranks of the safest banks in the emerging markets are dominated by Asia and ...

Award Winners

Safest Emerging Markets Banks By Region 2011

SAFEST EMERGING MARKETS BANKS BY REGION By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance ’s first annual listing of the safest emerging markets banksby region. Single countries dominate in most regions. SAFEST EMERGING MARKETS BANKS ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Shenzhen Promotes Itself As A High-Tech Hub, As China Beefs Up Antitrust Credentials

MILESTONES: CHINA By Matt Greco With an audience as full of Chinese citizens as of Americans, officials from the City of Shenzhen touted its appeal as a center for high-tech investment at a conference in New York City in ...

Banking

Special Report: AFP Conference

AUTOMATION, TAXATION AND RISK REDUCTION BY Denise Bedell Risk management and technology were key themes of the annual AFP conference in Boston in November. Jegher, Celent: Only a fraction of banks now offer corporate mobile banking solutions The annual ...