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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

Roundup By Thomas Clouse Expo frenzy: Shanghai expects 70 million visitors China's consumer prices rose by the greatest margin in 18 months in April, while property prices increased by the fastest rate since the country began publishing the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Bringing Brazilian Ethanol to Global Markets

Investor: Company to Watch Cosan/Brazil By Gordon Platt Cosan, one of Brazil's largest producers of sugar and ethanol, plans to form a $12 billion joint venture with Shell International Petroleum, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell. The São ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Emerging Market Bonds Have Unusual Appeal

Investor: News By Gordon Platt Emerging market debt has a unique attraction for investors seeking higher yields than are available on US treasuries but who lack the appetite for risk in volatile emerging market equities. Investors are pouring ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Standard Chartered Files To Issue First IDRs In India

Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt UK-based Standard Chartered Bank filed a draft prospectus to raise a minimum of $500 million in the form of Indian depositary receipts. "The issue will increase our market visibility and brand profile, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Enabling Efficiency

ENABLE EFFICIENCY Welcome to the first Technology & Treasury Management Supplement Global Finance has published. We recognize that technology has always been a key enabler of treasury management, with treasury management workstations and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems facilitating ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

TECHNOLOGY & TREASURY MANAGEMENT — TREASURY SOLUTIONS Treasury modules offered by enterprise resource planning systems providers are threatening full-suite treasury systems. By Denise Bedell As companies focus more on cost savings, there is an equilibrium that must ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — FOREIGN EXCHANGE GREEK DEBT CRISIS MORPHING INTO EURO PROBLEM By Gordon Platt The nearly $1 trillion plan to defuse Europe's debt crisis headed off speculation in credit default swaps, bank equities and bond ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange Trading

SPOTLIGHT: TRADING UP Technology is revolutionizing foreign exchange trading and providing ever-increasing opportunities in the world’s biggest financial market. By Anita Hawser Electronic trading has revolutionized markets. In the equities markets, algorithmic trading platforms, high-frequency trading and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Equities / DR

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS IPOS PULLED FOLLOWING MARKET DECLINES By Gordon Platt A sharp drop in world equity markets triggered a host of cancellations and postponements of planned initial public offerings in early May. Many of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Investment Floods Back To Latin America

MILESTONES: LATIN AMERICA Investment Floods Back To Latin America By Antonio Guerrero High and dry: Caribbean countries may miss out Following a hefty 42% yearon- year drop in FDI in Latin America last year, investors appear to ...

Banking

Market Forces

FOCUS: ISLAMIC FINANCE IN ASIA A centralized approach to Islamic finance is helping Asia develop an industry that may challenge the Middle East as the global hub. By Anita Hawser The Middle East is often thought of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS CORPORATE FINANCE FOCUS CHINA AND INDIA'S COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES CAUSING RISE IN CROSS-BORDER ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets are heating up, and China and ...