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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Deals Accelerated in First Quarter

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions rebounded in 2010, and the momentum appears to be carrying over into this year. The first three months of 2011 constituted the strongest quarter for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Medvedev Launches Drive To Improve Investment Climate

MILESTONES : RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan The much-maligned Russian investment environment may actually be on the verge of real improvement — if president Dmitry Medvedev has his way. Medvedev promises improvements in the business climate In late ...

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New Leaders Face Tricky Economic Balancing Act

MILESTONES: CANADA By Erik Heinrich As Canada heads early this month into its fourth federal election in seven years, policymakers are facing serious questions over the prospects for the country’s economy. Canada slows spending The Bank of ...

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Portugal’s Leaders Left With Few Option

MILESTONES : PORTUGAL By Anita Hawser Sovereign debt in the eurozone is back in the headlines again, with Portugal going cap in hand to the European Union and asking for an emergency bailout. Debt burden leaves little ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: China in Africa

Pause For Thought By Antonio Guerrero Recent popular uprisings in North Africa and beyond may be causing China to slow its headlong rush into the continent. Over the past decade, China has become a key source ...

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Santos Raises Colombia’s Profile

NEWSMAKERS : COLOMBIA By Antonio Guerrero Less than a year after being sworn in, Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos is helping put his country back on the radar for investors scared away by guerrilla rebels and drug lords. ...

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Tremonti Swats Away Accusations Of Protectionism

NEWSMAKERS : ITALY By Luca Ventura When the dairy giant Parmalat, a household name in more than 30 countries, collapsed in 2003 with a $20 billion hole in its accounts, Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti fittingly dubbed the ...

Editor's Letter

Tsunami And Turnaround

In the past few weeks we all focused on Japan, shared its pain and its terrible losses. Many wondered about the risks that the crises in that country and in the Middle East might inflict on the global economy...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Vietnam Reshapes Economic Strategy

MILESTONES: VIETNAM By Thomas Clouse Vietnam’s policymakers are struggling to rein in inflation after the consumer price index (CPI) rose by a two-year high of 13.9% year-on-year in March. Spending roars ahead The country performed well throughout ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Banks : Asia Country Winners

ASIA Credit Quality May Hinder Expansion Plans While most of emerging Asia’s banks came out of the 2008 financial crisis with strong capital ratios and creditworthiness, the crisis had more of a negative impact on banks in some of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Ceremony: TCM Awards

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT: AWARD CEREMONY Treasury Trove On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at the Harvard Club of New York City, Global Finance held its annual awards ceremony honoring the World’s Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2011. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Going It Alone

FOCUS: CEE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE By Vanessa Drucker Europe’s continuing sovereign debt crisis has left many non-members of the eurozone relishing their monetary independence. The eurozone debt crisis has taken a toll on financial markets worldwide, rattling investors’ ...