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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM: Who’s Who

WHO'S WHO Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management By Vanessa Drucker Donald E. Berk Senior Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Services Northern Trust As director of product and process management for enterprise banking services at ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trading Up

ANALYSIS — ASIA'S EXPORTERS By Thomas Clouse Asia’s exporters are all benefiting as China’s manufacturers begin to move up the value chain. The Asian economic miracle is hardly a new story, but every once in a while, ...

Country Report

Country Report: Egypt

GETTING SMART By Gordon Platt Egypt is turning to information technology to create a knowledge-based economy. Near the pyramids at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's first technology park is changing the desert landscape. A total ...

Country Report

Country Report: Spain

AN ATTAINABLE GOAL By Antonio Guerrero Spain's economy is still under pressure, but signs of renewed confidence are slowly emerging. When Spain beat the Netherlands in July to win the country's first-ever soccer World Cup, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DR Trading Sets Record In First Half

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Depositary receipt trading worldwide rose 8.3% to more than 78 billion DRs in the first half of this year and was valued at a record $1.84 trillion, according to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Economic Focus: Brazil

PLAY ON By Antonio Guerrero Brazil is betting that its huge investment in infrastructure projects for the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics will provide long-term benefits to the country. Just six weeks after Rio ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Market Deals Boost M&A

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Emerging markets accounted for nearly one-third of global mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2010, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters. M&A; activity involving companies ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: China

ROUNDUP By Thomas Clouse Power hungry: China’s energy use climbs China overtook the United States to become the world’s largest energy consumer, according to figures released in July by the International Energy Agency. China used energy equivalent to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

High-Yield Debt Has Record Half

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The volume of global corporate high-yield debt issues in the first half of 2010 set an all-time record for any six-month period, according to Thomson Reuters. The total of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Lower Volatility Spurs Carry Trade

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The Federal Reserve is likely to keep US interest rates at record lows well into next year, enabling global investors to borrow dollars for a song and invest in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Top Firms Spurn Bank Finance

EUROPE By Anita Hawser No thank you: Companies reject costly bank loans Investment-grade companies are shunning bank lending and opting instead for the bond markets in order to raise financing, a report by Fitch Ratings says. Based on ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Turbulence Indices Provide Risk Insight

GLOBAL By Anita Hawser State Street’s Will Kinlaw Stress testing risk models and investment portfolios for extreme market events has certainly come into vogue in the wake of the financial crisis. Banks’ risk models were criticized for focusing ...
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