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Features : Lease Extension
Following a few years of depressed activity, the asset finance market is poised for recovery in 2004. How strong that...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Project Finance: Crossing Over
The project finance industry that is emerging from the recent global downturn looks very different than it did in the...
Banking
Features : World’s Best Trade Finance Banks
Therebounding global economy is creating opportunities for cross-border sales, but only the foolhardy operate without the safety net provided by...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Emerging Market Borrowers Indulge In Big, Bold Bond Spree
EMERGING MARKETS New emerging market issuance will be dominated this year by Brazil, especially Brazilian corporates. Christian Stracke, CreditSights Christian...
News
Milestones : Snow Talks Up The Dollar To Avoid A Crash
CHINA, JAPAN The Group of 7 finance ministers and central bankers will face some thorny currency issues once again when...
News
Newsmakers : Bush’s New Baby Causes Surprise All Round
UNITED STATES In his budget for FY 2005 the President promises to close loopholes, halt several abusive tax avoidance transactions,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Business Investment Boosts Debt Issuance
THE AMERICAS US corporate bond issuance is getting a lift from increasing business investment, as well as improving credit quality,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar’s Rout Continues As Buyers Go on Strike
THE AMERICAS The US dollar gets no respect in the foreign exchange market these days, as traders hang around and...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : St. Paul, Travelers to Merge In $16 Billion Stock Deal
THE AMERICAS St. Paul Companies and Travelers Property Casualty definitively agreed to merge in a $16.1 billion stock-swap transaction that...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : US Accounting Rules Trip Up Foreign Issuers
THE AMERICAS In the past two years, foreign issuers of securities have agreed to pay a total of about $700...
News
Cover Story : All Change
New banking regulations could have as profound an effect on global businesses as any of the recently drafted codes of...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter : Brave New World
In this issue we bring together a number of disparate stories from around the world, including Brazil, Russia, the United States and Western Europe...