Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Economic Woes To Constrain Euro
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro was the star of the major currencies in January, as...
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Banking
Global Salon: Karen Elliott House
CONFLUENCE OF RISK By Vanessa Drucker In this months Salon, Global Finance sat down with Karen Elliott House, Pulitzer Prizewinning...
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
Newsmaker: White’s SEC Appointment Sends Mixed Message
NEWSMAKER US By Valentina Pasquali Though still bearing the scars of the recent financial crisis, the US economy is recovering, and markets are returning to levels unseen in years. White is reputed to be a tough enforcer Photo Credits: ...