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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-Yield Funds Attracting Investors

THE AMERICAS Mutual funds that invest in high-yield bonds returned 5.4% on average in the first quarter of 2003, continuing...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EUROPE Gas Natural, Spains biggest gas distributor, made a hostile bid for the countrys largest electric utility, Iberdrola, but the...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

This market has taken a battering but lenders are going back to basics Times are tough in the project finance...

News

A volatile economy shows a bit of pace as exports grow and politics remains calm. International banks are gradually reopening...

Banking

LATIN AMERICA Santander Central Hispano, one of the top 15 banks in the world in terms of market capitalization and...

Banking

ASIA Born in Hong Kong in 1865, HSBC continues to dominate the banking industry in Asia.Over the past year, it...

Banking

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Prudent risk management has kept National Bank of Kuwaits books relatively clear of non-performing loans, but...

Banking

Time was when emerging economies had to worry about things as mundane as a run on the bank. But now...

Banking

BEST BANKSCENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Bankers at Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BACA) much prefer talking about their exploits in central and...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

GLOBAL Emerging markets often prove whiteknuckle rides, but Citigroup has (once more) earned top spot as best bank, through prudent...

News

At a recent roundtable in New York hosted by The Bank of New York industry leaders discussed the progress of...

News

CONTINUOUS LINKED SETTLEMENT A new settlement system aims to cut out settlement risk. Way back in June 1974, a small...