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Milestones : Hsbc Mortgage Debacle May Herald Market Meltdown
UNITED STATES When HSBC announced that it will take a higher-than-expected charge on bad debts for 2006 as a result...
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Milestones : Regulators Close In On Private Equity
UNITED STATES / EUROPE Tony James, president of the Blackstone Group Plagued by competition and antitrust investigations on both sides...
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Newsmakers : Belarus Outlines Privatization Plans
BELARUS Nanda: Controlling spread of AIDS makes good business sense As relations continue to sour between Belarus and Russia, Belaruss...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers : Sarin Connects With Indian Phone Deal
UNITED KINGDOM / INDIA Vodafone head, Arun Sarin: Global ambitions Arun Sarin, chief executive of UK-based mobile phone service provider...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Credit Cycle In US Could Turn Down In 2007
Corporate Debt Although the US credit markets performed well in 2006, with tight spreads of corporate bonds to US treasury...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Depositary Receipts Set Record For IPOs
Global Equity/Drs Initial public offerings in the form of depositary receipts rose more than 75% in 2006 from a year...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Steadier US Rates Equal Steadier Dollar
Foreign Exchange Chances for a US interest rate cut fell sharply following a string of stronger-than-expected economic data in early...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : Deal Or No Deal
The seemingly interminable wrangling over global trade encapsulated in the so-called Doha Round of talks might be about to come...
Banking
Cover Story : Murabahah Goes Mainstream
A modern form of Islamic trade financing has taken root and is flourishing in the Middle East With its ancient...
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Cover Story : The Chain Gang
As the use of letters of credit declines worldwide, banks are devising other ways to help companies manage their financial...
Banking
Cover Story : Worlds Best Trade Finance Banks 2007
Global Finance selects the leaders in a specialized area of finance that is changing rapidly Global trade finance has become...
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Editor’s Letter : The Balance of Trade
As the East Coast of the United States basked in unseasonably warm weather in early January, some shoots of hope sprouted from the frozen earth of the Doha round of trade talks...