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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Russia

ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan Hard line: Russian president Medvedev asserts his power Following an exceptionally bitter and increasingly dirty public struggle with the Kremlin, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was fired in late September, after 18 years in office. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: Coal India’s IPO Breaks Ground

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt State-owned Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, was seeking to raise up to $3.5 billion in the country's biggest initial public offering, which began on October 18. That ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Europe: SEPA Fails To Live Up To Expectations

MILESTONE: EUROPE By Anita Hawser Slow implementation has hindered SEPA With the threat of sovereign defaults in Europe's PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece Spain), the eurozone had its fair share of bad news this summer. As the sovereign and ...

News

France: Sarkozy’s Commodities Plans Get Boost From Merkel

NEWSMAKERS: FRANCE By Denise Bedell Smooth move: Sarkozy hopes to rein in price volatility Commodity speculation is once again in the spotlight as Angela Merkel, German chancellor, has announced her support for plans by incoming G20 president Nicolas ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Cross-Border Trade

TRAIL BLAZERS By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. The Bric countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—have a combined gross domestic product that is greater than that of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Prime Brokerage

READY FOR PRIME TIME By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. Future growth of the foreign exchange prime brokerage industry will come from asset managers that are ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Renminbi Rising

China's trade deficit with the US rose to another record in August, fanning the brush fires that have broken out in the currency markets. Currency issues dominated talks at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: The Rising Euro

RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS By Jonathan Gregson After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise. Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Who’s who

WHO'S WHO By Gordon Platt Key players in foreign exchange. Jamie Thorsen Executive managing director BMO Capital Markets Jamie Thorsen heads global foreign exchange operations in Canada, the US and Europe for BMO Capital Markets and oversees ...

Editor's Letter

High Hopes

With the world still reeling from the beating it took during the financial crisis and with many countries rashlyand bafflinglytalking their way into what threaten to be costly and damaging currency confrontations...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Latin America Focus: Brazil Elections

A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW By Denise Bedell Investors are preparing for post-Lula life after Brazil's drawn-out presidential election. When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took over as president of Brazil in January 2003, investors and the ...