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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Adapting To Survive

SECTOR REPORT / PRIVATE EQUITY Cash-heavy buyout firms are still looking for deals, but the rising cost of borrowing may result in their emulating their smaller private equity cousins. Just a few months ago there were ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report: Iceland

EXPANDING HORIZONS ICELAND Iceland is going all out to expand its economy—and the global reach of its banks and corporations. With a wealthy consumer base that has the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the OECD, 0.8% unemployment, negligible ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Sponsored Roundtable: Treasury & Cash Management

BRANCHING OUT Advances in technology are helping treasury and cash management specialists provide their organizations and clients with greater depth and breadth of services. Gary Greenwald heads global capabilities and information products for global transaction services cash management ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Worlds Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY/ BEST FX BANKS The 54 central banks and monetary authorities that took a measure of the foreign exchange market last year under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements discovered an unprecedented rise ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : China Faces Growing Skills Shortage

CHINA Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, ...

News

Newsmakers : Cruz Becomes Casualty Of Wall Street’s Credit Crunch

UNITED STATES Gardner: More companies are signing up to going green. Global investors, institutions and corporates are increasingly looking to improve their sustainability profile, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute released in January. The report, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Bovespa Enjoys Ipo Bonanza

BRAZIL São Paulo stock exchange Bovespa Holding, which owns the São Paulo stock exchange, raised nearly $3.7 billion in an IPO that ranks as Latin America’s largest offering this year. Bovespa sold 250 million shares on October 26, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Banks Chop $100 Billion Off Backlog Of Lbo Financings As High-yield Bond Issues Come Back In Demand

CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS Prospects have improved for clearing away a huge backlog of leveraged loans and high-yield debt to finance already completed corporate takeovers, thanks to a revival of new issuance in the US high-yield bond market. Nearly ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Petrochina Ipo Spurs Shanghai Stock Surge

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, added fuel to the fire of Shanghai’s overheated stock market last month with its initial public offering on the mainland. The company’s A-shares surged 163% in their $8.9 billion ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Year For M&a Crawling To Finish

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The year 2007 already has set an all-time record for the value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions, thanks to the growing influence of private equity funds and attractive financing opportunities earlier this year. However, deteriorating ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Slowing Us Economy, Rate Cuts Slash Dollar

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Interest rate differentials are squeezing the last bit of life out of the dollar amid ongoing concerns about the health of the US financial system, analysts say. The dollar fell to a record low against the ...

Banking

Cover Story : 20 Years Of Turmoil And Progress

ANNIVERSARY TIMELINE OCTOBER 19, 1987: STOCK MARKET CRASH The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falls 508 points, or 22.6%, in the steepest decline since 1929. Portfolio insurance and computerized trading takes some of the blame for what ranks ...