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Features : Growing Pains
As custody outsourcing comes of age, it is undergoing a transformation. Rob Mancuso, senior vice president at Investors Bank &...
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Features : High Visibility
Corporate risk managers are finding their roles are getting bigger and their efforts are more closely monitored. In an era...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...