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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Rupee Strengthens To Nine-year High Against The Dollar

INDIA Winds of change: The Indian rupee rises against the dollar The Indian rupee gained nearly 7% over a nine-week period culminating in the second week of May in a nine-year high against the US dollar on increasing ...

Award Winners

Features : Best Investment Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / INVESTMENT BANKS The continuing frenzy of global M&A; and debt and equity issuance shows no sign of abating—and investment banks are reaping the benefits. Records fell across the board in 2006 for worldwide debt ...

Banking

Features : Big Banks Eye Micro Market

SECTOR REPORT / MICROFINANCE Some of the world’s biggest banks are taking an interest in lending to some of the world’s smallest potential customers. After her husband died, Adija Msw was left destitute with an extended family ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Credit Where It’s Due

CORPORATE TOOLBOX / CREDIT DERIVATIVES Corporates have largely ignored the rapidly growing credit derivatives market for years. But will it help or hinder them if global growth begins to slow? The credit derivatives market has been one of the greatest ...

Banking

Features : Mobile Freedom

FINANCIAL SOFTWARE / CASH MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS A new generation of mobile technology promises to bring comprehensive remote access to corporate finance systems for executives on the road. For many companies, mobile phones, PDAs and other mobile devices ...

Banking

Features : On A Roll

20TH ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHT / INVESTMENT BANKING Investment bankers are riding a wave of profits in an expanding universe for their services. Ivanov: There is no limit to growth Year after year the world’s investment banks have been turning ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Open Access

FOCUS / TREASURY MANAGEMENT On-demand software services are making increasingly sophisticated treasury management systems available to a much wider range of companies. Atypical day in the life of a corporate treasurer entails managing the company’s cash, ensuring ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Taking Risk Beyond Regulation

TECHNIQUES / RISK MANAGEMENT As corporate risk systems become more sophisticated, businesses are moving beyond simple compliance and proving that better management of risk can drive greater efficiency. Over the past few years there has been a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Chinas Banks Face Call To Tighten Environmental Standards

CHINA Kiani Kertas pulp mill in Indonesia Bankrolled by an injection of capital from the Chinese government, which enabled them to write off non-performing loans (NPLs), as well as fresh investment from foreign stakeholders, China’s leading commercial banks ...

News

Milestones : Interest Rates Hobble Spanish Businesses

SPAIN Spanish companies, which have been on a huge buying and expansion kick fueled by a strong domestic economy, face growing funding concerns as European Central Bank rate hikes look set to continue. As the economy is slowing, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Key Ipo Weathers Political Storm

TURKEY Gul: Nomination triggered a political crisis Turmoil sparked by the nomination of a suspected Islamist candidate for president in Turkey might have been expected to derail the long-anticipated l2.5 billion Turkish Lira ($1.86 billion) privatisation of the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Multilateral Malaise

LATIN AMERICA Hugo Chávez: Wants to see the World Bank out of Latin America While most media attention on the World Bank recently has focused on a political scandal that could spark the downfall of bank president Paul ...