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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets : $2.9 Billion EM Fund Attracts Investors

NEWS Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, has successfully raised $2.9 billion for investment in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This is one of the largest dedicated EM private equity funds closed in 2008. The ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : ‘Bric’ Countries Represent Half Of New DrIssuers

DR NEWS Companies based in Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the BRIC countries, accounted for 53% of new depositary receipt programs and 52% of capital raised in DR form in the first 11 months ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Banking Giants Push For Growth

BRAZIL Presidents Medvedev and Lula call for the first-ever BRIC summit. Eager to maintain its status as Latin America’s largest financial institution, Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest state-controlled bank, announced the acquisition of Nossa Caixa, a bank ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Business Confidence Crumbles Amid Economic Gloom

INDIA Building hope: One of the few brights spots in the Indian economy, real estate still attracts investors. Leading Indian manufacturers have dismissed the Indian government’s $4 billion stimulus package as insufficient. The Federation of Indian Chambers of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Company To Watch: Unilever Indonesia

UNILEVER CLEANS UP ACT OVER PALM OIL Unilever Indonesia recently opened a factory for skin-care products in Cikarang, West Java. The factory joins seven others operated by Unilever in the country, where Lever Brothers opened a soap factory ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Downturn Bites Harder

<p>China Treasury secretary Paulson and Chinese president Hu vow to fight protectionism. China has increased export tax rebates and depreciated the value of the yuan relative to the US dollar in recent weeks, prompting fears that protectionist pressures ...</p>

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Financial Crisis Repercussions Threaten Putin’s Legacy

RUSSIA Defending his legacy: Putin spends his way out of financial crisis. The Russian economy continued to slide down a slippery slope of economic crisis as a series of adjustments to the trading corridor of the ruble reflected ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Nigeria Sets Up Credit Bureau

Africa Africa's airlines are looking to tap new credit lines. The Central Bank of Nigeria issued guidelines for establishing and operating credit bureaus, in a move that will support the development of the country’s credit market by providing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Region Feels Effects Of Global Slowdown

MIDDLE EAST Trouble in paradise: Dubai feels the chill of a global recession. Property prices on Dubai’s upscale Palm Jumeirah, an artificial island shaped like a palm tree, fell sharply late last year. Construction work on the Trump ...

Banking

Features : After the Storm

BANKING CRISIS FALLOUT Colossal losses by financial institutions have prompted calls for more-effective regulation. Refining the Basel banking rules might provide the answer. Global crisis: For the biggest names in banking there has been nowhere to hide from ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report : Taiwan

Policymakers in Taiwan are pulling out all the stops in their response to the global economic slump. Taiwan's president Ma Ying-jeou: Promoting better relations with China. Taiwan is an economic success story. The island, despite political ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Eastern Promise

CHINA AND INDIA As the global economy continues to struggle, many are hoping China and India will save the world from a synchronized dive into recession. Growth industry: India's call center business is flourishing. As the United States ...