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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Credit Market Crisis Entering New Stage

Corporate Debt While money market pressures appear to be slowly receding, worries about a possible US recession that could trigger a surge in corporate defaults are moving to the fore for 2008. “If round one of the current credit crisis ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Mergers & Acquisitions Cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for a record 47% of worldwide M&A; transactions in 2007, as global consolidation continued to drive merger activity in the materials, financials, and energy and power sectors, according to Thomson ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Drs Moving From Strength To Strength

Global Equity/drs Records galore toppled in the depositary receipt market in 2007, and DR liquidity, prices and capital raising likely will continue to be strong in 2008, as growth continues in the big emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Us Economic Slowdown, Rate Cuts To Drub Dollar

Foreign Exchange With the US economy nearing a recession, if it hasn’t already entered one, the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates in the months ahead, likely leading to further losses in the already beat-up dollar, analysts say. The ...

Banking

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

China International and domestic banks are spreading the net ever wider in their efforts to bring financial services to China’s increasingly wealthy population. China has outdone itself. The country’s economy grew by 11.5% in the first three ...

News

Editor’s Letter: Clamorix for a fix

The story everyone thought would be old news by last November rumbled on through January as more giant US banks fessed up to having shockingly large losses as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Dr News Beijing-based Baidu.com, China’s leading Internet search provider, was the most actively traded depositary receipt in the world last year, according to The Bank of New York Mellon’s annual year-end report on the DR industry. In ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Frontier Markets Draw Value Hunters

News The lure of potentially high returns at lower prices than the big emerging markets is attracting value-seeking institutional investors to smaller “frontier” markets such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Angola and Mongolia. “To me, China and Hong Kong are expensive, but ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

News & Features Archive

Corporate Finance : Credit Market Crisis Entering New Stage

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Corporate Finance : Drs Moving From Strength To Strength

Corporate Finance : Us Economic Slowdown, Rate Cuts To Drub Dollar

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

Editor’s Letter: Clamorix for a fix

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Emerging Markets : Frontier Markets Draw Value Hunters

Emerging Markets : Indias Little Car Has Big Ambitions

Emerging Markets : Mind The Gap

Emerging Markets : Putins Political Future Becomes Clearer

Emerging Markets : Securities Markets Become More Open