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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide : Treasury & Cash Management Guide 2008

The old adage, “Cash is king,” has rarely been more true. As banks reassess their credit relationships with corporate customers, with a view to maintaining those relationships that are more profitable and less risky, corporates, particularly those in tiers 2 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Central Clearinghouse Planned To Reduce Counterparty Risk In Credit Default Swaps Market

CORPORATE DEBT A consortium led by major investment banks active in the huge over-the-counter derivatives market in credit default swaps (CDS) plans to launch a central clearinghouse by September in an effort to reduce counterparty risk in the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Here’s your converted text: Telecom Deal Helps Banks Clear Lbo Loan Backlog

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The agreement announced last month by Verizon Wireless to buy rural cell phone service provider Alltel for $5.9 billion in cash and $22.2 billion in debt did more than create the biggest mobile-phone company ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : JPMorgan Adds Dr Staff In Latin America, Asia

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS JPMorgan has added new depositary receipt specialists in Argentina, Brazil and Singapore to assist the growing number of companies in these countries that want to have their equity traded on exchanges outside their home markets. The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Gets Drafted In War On Inflation

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave the dollar a powerful boost last month with his observation that a weak dollar was contributing to imported inflation. Even before Bernanke gave his noteworthy speech at an international monetary ...

News

Editor’s Letter: Carbon Cop-out

Few people would now argue that something needs to be done to arrestand perhaps reversethe growth of emissions that are contributing to global climate change...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor : Clean-coal Firm Raises $1.3 Billion

COMPANY TO WATCH: PT ADARO ENERGY/INDONESIA Jakarta-based PT Adaro Energy, the holding company of Indonesia’s second-largest coal producer, raised $1.32 billion in the country’s biggest initial public offering ever by selling 34.8% of its share capital. PT Danatama ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor : Global Investment House Issues First Kuwaiti Drs

DR NEWS Global Investment House, an asset management and investment banking company operating in 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has become the first Kuwait-based company to issue depositary receipts. The issue of 35% ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor : Indian Firms Find Welcome At Aim

NEWS KSK Emerging India Energy Fund (KEF) raised $200 million in June on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). It was the fourth India-focused company to raise funds on AIM in as many weeks. The equity offering came at ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Kenya Calling

AFRICA Kenya's mobile communications industry flourishes following IPO of Safaricom. A June IPO by Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom was oversubscribed by 532%, according to Kenya’s finance minister Amos Kimunya. The government exercised a provision allowing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Markets Suffer As Prices Rise

INDIA RBI governor YV Reddy may tighten interest rates. Indian banks have continued to grow credit at a very rapid pace since the start of the new fiscal year on April 1. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Medvedev Makes His Mark

RUSSIA Russia's new president Dmitry Medvedev, on his first international outing, with German leader Angela Merkel. Newly anointed Russian president Dmitry Medvedev used his first foreign visit—to Germany—to signal the Kremlin’s continued ...