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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Focus On Liquidity

TREASURY MANAGEMENT: ASIA Facing a unique set of challenges, treasurers in Asia-Pacific are focusing on improving liquidity management. Newton: Organizations placing investment want to know exactly where it is being invested. It is a tough time for corporates ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Victims and saviors

ANNUAL REPORT Emerging markets didn’t start this fire, but they may be the best hope for putting it out. The global financial crisis was clearly stamped “Made in USA,” but the outlook for growth in emerging economies is being ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Four-Year Fight Ends In Cafta Ratification

COSTA RICA President Arias successfully concludes free trade agreement. Four years after it was first signed, Costa Rican lawmakers in November finally ratified Cafta, the free trade agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States. ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : G-20 seeks coordinated global regulation

GLOBAL Brown: A vocal advocate for global financial regulation. After the recent meeting of the Group of 20 countries in Washington, DC, in mid-November, the likelihood of the creation of a new, more international regulatory system for ...

News

Newsmakers : Aso Bursts Onto World Stage As Recession Hits Home

JAPAN Japanese PM Taro Aso lends a hand in economic recovery. Japanese prime minister Taro Aso may have had his 15 minutes of fame at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Washington last month. With the United ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Firms Hoard Cash As Crisis Deepens

<p>GLOBAL More companies are tightening the screws on customer credit in the wake of the crunch. As the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc in the corporate and financial worlds and shows clear signs of seeping into the ...</p>

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Oligarchs Face A Bleak Future

RUSSIA Deripaska: A dramatic turnaround The global financial crisis is sucking Russia’s oligarchs into its vortex. Information provider Bloomberg recently estimated that the combined wealth of the 25 richest Russians had plummeted 62% over the six-month period ended ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Regulators Focus On Liquidity Risk

GLOBAL McDowall: A more forensic approach to risk is needed. Regulators across the world may soon be pooling information in an attempt to police global banks’ liquidity risk. Managing liquidity risk, which was not high up on the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Forex Guide 2008

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Companies Cancel Ipos As Markets Tumble

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS There were only five initial public offerings in the US market in the third quarter, with no IPO activity after early August. In Europe, withdrawn IPOs were at the highest level in the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Credit Crunch And A Slowing Economy Crimp Worldwide Buyout Activity, Putting Strategic Buyers In Control

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Worldwide announced mergers and acquisitions in the first three quarters of 2008 declined by 25% from the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters, reflecting the effects of the credit crunch ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Frozen Credit Markets Unmoved By Rate Cuts

CORPORATE DEBT Credit markets remain stalled despite heroic efforts by global central banks, regulators and governments to restore confidence in the financial system. A lack of liquidity has made issuing new high-yield bonds almost ...