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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Frontier Markets Index Tracks New Asset Class

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Russell Investments, based in Washington state, introduced a new index, the Russell Frontier Index, that initially includes 683 stocks from 41 countries, none of which are included in the firm's emerging-markets ...

Editor's Letter

Gee Whizz

Last month's G20 meeting in Seoul may well have been the most-hyped gathering of global leaders in recent years...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global IPO Pipeline Filling Up Quickly

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/ DRS By Gordon Platt Companies based in China and India dominated global initial public offerings in the first three quarters of 2010, and now the US is getting ready to join the new-equity ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global: Basel III Debate Over Trade Finance

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Nivison: Trade is different When the new Basel III capital adequacy proposals were announced back in the summer, some members of the banking community breathed a sigh of relief as the timeline for ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global: G20’s Mantra Covers Big Differences

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Comic relief: G20 leaders laugh despite deficit deadlock At last month's Seoul summit of the G20—or the G19+1, as one senior Asian central bank official recently dubbed it—the US was isolated from the ...

Banking

Global: World Bank’s Environment Valuation

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Dan Keeler Zoellick: Promoting fair value of ecosystems In an attempt to help countries calculate the true value of their natural assets, the World Bank has launched a project that will create an ecosystem valuation ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

QE2 Boosts Cross-Border M&A Deals

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITION By Gordon Platt Growing risk appetite triggered a sudden burst of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in October, as investors prepared for a second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, from the Federal ...

Features

Regional Report: Southern Europe

COVER STORY: LIVING ON THE EDGE By Laurence Neville Southern Europe's sovereign debt crisis may appear to have been resolved, but severe trials still lie ahead—particularly for Greece. The travails of Southern Europe—in particular Spain, Portugal and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Rise Of Integrated Expense Management

TOOLBOX: CORPORATE CREDIT CARDS By Denise Bedell Businesses discover the benefits of linking corporate card programs with other parts of the physical and financial supply chain. As automated expense management solutions become ever more integrated with other ...

News

Russia: Former Yukos Chief Gets More Jailtime

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Khodorkovsky: Sentence likely to be extended After months of wrangling, the verdict on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia's Yukos Oil Company, is due in mid-December. The ex-tycoon ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The Great Divide

ANALYSIS: GLOBAL GROWTH By Laurence Neville As companies thrive while countries struggle, a split seems to be emerging between macroeconomic and corporate performance. Observers of the global economy could be forgiven for being a little confused of ...

Award Winners

The World’s Best Derivatives Providers

ANNUAL SURVEY: A NEW STATUS QUO By Michael Shari The landscape of leading derivatives providers is being reshaped largely by a preference for low commissions and a newfound fear of having American banks as counterparties. It would ...