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RUSSIA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008
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WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS – 2008
New York, 4 September 2008 Global Finance magazine has released its annual ranking of the Worlds Safest Banks, which will...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bailouts Cushion Decline In 2008 Global Mergers
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The volume of worldwide mergers and acquisitions fell 30% last year compared with 2007, but the decline in announced deals would have been even larger without the government bailouts of financial institutions, which represented a ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Credit Market Thaw Brings Flood Of Issues
CORPORATE DEBT Government programs designed to thaw the frozen credit markets appeared to be having some effect in early January, opening a window of opportunity for a flood of investment-grade corporate debt issues, but analysts say the credit ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan Gives Dollar Strong Start To 2009 On Hopes Us Will Recover First
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar rose in early January, as investors weighed the likely effects of president-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and as analysts said the United States could be the first major economy to recover from the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Volatility Boosts Trading But Shuts Out Ipos
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Initial public offerings in the United States plunged 86% last year to the lowest level in 31 years, with only one IPO priced in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Thomson Reuters. By comparison, 60 ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cover Story : Fear Factor
DEFLATION US policymakers have already braced themselves for a bout of deflation, and many corporations are quaking at the prospect of price declines. Some are wondering, though, how bad can it really get? That the global economy, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Brazilian Mall Operator Upgrades Restricted ADRs
DR NEWS Seeking to raise its profile with international investors, BRMalls, Brazil’s largest shopping mall operator, upgraded its restricted American depositary receipt program to a Level I facility sponsored by J.P. Morgan. Rio de Janeiro-based BRMalls offers an opportunity for ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Instant Messaging Craze Sweeps China
COMPANY TO WATCH: TENCENT HOLDINGS/CHINA Instant messaging (IM) has become a cultural phenomenon in China. Tencent Holdings is a Hong Kong-listed company with the bulk of its assets in China, where its QQ brand controls 80% of the IM market. ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Investors Return To Em Bond Funds
NEWS With US treasury bonds offering paltry rates of return, investors are taking a closer look at emerging market debt as a way to pick up an additional 600 basis points or more of yield. EM bond funds ...
Banking
Features : Back To Basics
SECTOR REPORT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS A series of disastrous investments in Western banks and mounting pressure to invest locally is prompting a sea change in sovereign wealth funds’ investment attitudes. Dickinson: Some SWFs are facing pressure to diversify their ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Features : Desperate Measures
SPOTLIGHT CORPORATE FRAUD Crumbling asset values and wild volatility have left a trail of disaster in their wake. They also exposed some truly shocking frauds. Abbey: “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is” In ...