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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Alfa / Mexico

ALFA GROUP GROWS THROUGH ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Monterrey-based Alfa, one of Mexico’s largest industrial groups, has four business lines, comprising petrochemicals, aluminum auto parts, processed food and telecommunications. Earlier this year it became the sole shareholder ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Indian GDRs Suffered In 2010

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Investors lost money in 85% of the 40 global depositary receipts (GDRs) issued by Indian companies in 2010, according to an analysis by Crisil Research, a credit rating firm majority-owned ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Infrastructure Needs Triple By 2030

MILESTONES: EMERGING MARKETS By Gordon Platt Demand for infrastructure in emerging markets will reach $1 trillion annually through 2030, triple the level of the previous two decades, with Asia accounting for the lion’s share, according to a study ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: EM Corporate Debt Offers Yield

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Investors are showing increasing interest in emerging markets’ corporate bonds, which offer diversification and better yields, according to a report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm held an ...

Banking

Fischer Still Seeking New Employment

NEWSMAKERS: ISRAEL By David Lipkin Former French finance minister Christine Lagarde may have secured the top job at the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF), but some fund insiders are still gunning for Stanley Fischer, governor of the Central ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: China’s Lofty Ambitions For The Renminbi

CHINA’S LOFTY AMBITIONS FOR THE RENMINBI By Gordon Platt The Chinese government continues to make strides in internationalizing its currency. Qu, HSBC: Domestic demand should support 8.5% to 9% growth in the coming quarters Every long march ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Currency Wars: Changing Tactics

CURRENCY WARS By Gordon Platt Battle Tactics Change With Global Slowdown. Chandler, Brown Brothers Harriman: The lingering US and European crises are casting a pall over global capital markets When the global economy seemed securely on track ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Dollar Reserve Currency Still Reigns

SAME OLD, SAME OLD By Denise Bedell The US dollar will remain the world’s reserve currency of choice as long as there is no credible alternative. There have long been calls for a new currency to take ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Introduction: Déjà Vu All Over Again

DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN Some analysts say that 2011 is beginning to look a lot like 2008, with Europe’s debt crisis morphing into a bank solvency crisis with global ramifications. So far, the foreign exchange market—the world’s ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Is The Euro Crumbling?

IS THE EURO CRUMBLING? By Gordon Platt Major reform is needed, but whether the political will is there to make large scale changes remains to be seen. The alternative may be the end of the eurozone as it ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: Who’s Who In Foreign Exchange

WHO’S WHO By Gordon Platt Who’s who in foreign exchange. MOHAMED EL AROUSSI Arab African International Bank Head of FX desk Mohamed El Aroussi has been head of the foreign exchange desk at Arab African International ...

Banking

Kudrin’s Shoes Will Be Hard To Fill

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Investors have long viewed Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin as the country’s second-most-important policymaker—and the primary reason for the dramatic turnaround in Russia’s macroeconomic position over the past decade. Alexei Kudrin refuses ...