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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

News & Features Archive

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

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

Corporate Finance: Dollar Gets Drafted In War On Inflation

Editor’s Letter: Carbon Cop-out

EM Investor : Clean-coal Firm Raises $1.3 Billion

EM Investor : Global Investment House Issues First Kuwaiti Drs

EM Investor : Indian Firms Find Welcome At Aim

Emerging Markets : Kenya Calling

Emerging Markets : Markets Suffer As Prices Rise

Emerging Markets : Medvedev Makes His Mark

Emerging Markets : Soaring Surplus Channeled Into Wealth Fund

Emerging Markets : Taiwan And China Strengthen Ties