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Award Winners

Features: Islamic Financial Institutions Awards 2009

Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems. By Laurence Neville For a brief moment it seemed that the world ...

Award Winners

ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AWARDS – 2009

Best Sukuk Bank Dubai Islamic Bank Best Islamic Retail Bank Al Rajhi Bank Best Islamic Investment Bank Falcom Best Takaful...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Brazil energy and power ADRs to trade over the counter

DR NEWS BY GP Two energy and power companies controlled by Brazilian mining magnate Eike Batista’s EBX Group have created sponsored American depositary receipt programs to trade in the over-the-counter market, according to The Bank of New York ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup Africa

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) estimates less than a quarter of Africans have access to electricity, and those who do pay twice the average retail rate of users in other emerging regions. By Antonio Guerrero A report from ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup Brazil

The latest news from Brazil. Just three years after acquiring Brazil’s Banco Pactual investment bank for some $2.5 billion, UBS is selling the bank back to its previous owners for roughly the same amount. By Antonio Guerrero The ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup China

China’s international trade continued to weaken in April, with both exports and imports falling for the sixth straight month. By Thomas Clouse Strong investment growth, however, may offset some effects of this slackening international trade. According to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup India

Following the Congress (I) party’s best federal election showing since 1991, India’s stock markets began to price in an acceleration in the pace of economic reforms. By Aaron Chaze The equity indexes reported the best one-day showing in ...

Banking

Regulars : EM Roundup Middle East

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US-based private equity firm, received a license to operate from the Dubai International Financial Center. By Gordon Platt The building in which the firm, whose 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco was chronicled in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup Russia

Amid expectations that the Russian economy had hit bottom, and despite a solid bounce in commodity prices since the beginning of the year, bad news continued to pile up. By Kim Iskyan Industrial production shrank by 17% in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : India’s consumers watching prices

COMPANY TO WATCH: HINDUSTAN UNILEVER/INDIA BY GP Mumbai-based Hindustan Unilever (HUL) sells soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos to more than 700 million Indian consumers, reaching two out of every three of the country’s inhabitants. As India’s largest consumer ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulars : Mergers & Acquisitions

PEPSI PUTS SOME FIZZ BACK IN M&A; MARKET Merger and acquisition activity is returning to a semblance of normality, with a series of significant deals in industries other than financial services. While financing remains constrained, stock-swap transactions and cash deals ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Regulars : Milestones : Global

Before the credit crunch took a massive bite out of global economic activity, oil prices were heading skyward, and fears that supplies might actually run out were rampant. By Anita Hawser Although the subsequent economic malaise sent energy ...