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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP Africa
South Africa’s Standard Bank, Africa’s largest lender by assets, has become the first international financial institution to join the IFC’s $5 billion global trade liquidity program. The program aims to extend loans to regional banks for on-lending to importers and ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP China
China’s foreign exchange reserves, the largest in the world, grew at the lowest rate in eight years in the first quarter as export markets cooled and foreign capital inflows slowed. The reserves increased by $7.7 billion to $1.95 trillion, representing ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP India
Just three months after the management of Satyam Computers, India’s fourth-largest software company, confessed to accounting fraud, the company was acquired by Tech Mahindra, another Indian software company. Tech Mahindra, which is partly owned by British Telecom, prevailed in the ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP Russia
The first meeting between US president Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, at the Group of 20 summit in London in early April, appeared to lay the foundation for an improvement in relations, which had plunged to fresh post-Cold ...
News
Editor’s Letter: A Chance For Lasting Change
Under the harsh glare of unprecedented media and public attention, Aprils G-20 meeting in London produced what many thought would be impossible: a vision of a new world order...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP Brazil
Citing Brazil’s prudent economic policies, Standard & Poor’s affirmed the country’s BBB- investment-grade rating with a stable outlook. In its rationale, S&P; said Brazil’s low investment-grade ratings are supported by the government’s ongoing commitment to prudent macroeconomic policies. S&P; expects ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Help Or Hindrance?
HELP OR HINDRANCE? Mounting concern over the economic prospects of the world’s poorest nations is encouraging developed nations to reassess their aid policies. By Antonio Guerrero World Bank president Robert Zoellick calls on the developed world ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers : Mexico first to tap IMF credit line
Mexico becomes the first country to tap IMF credit line;and risk management remains undervalued by money managers. Concerned about a weakening peso and possible 2010 fiscal gap, Mexico has turned to Washington for assistance for the first time since its ...
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Milestones : British Building Materials Giant To Build North American Brick Brand
NORTH AMERICA “Brick is traditionally viewed as a commodity product. We believe we can market it as a fashion product” - Richard Manning - Hanson Brick What’s in a name? The answer is everything if you’re Richard Manning.The ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar Stays Strong, But Yen Tumbles
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The US dollar index, a measure of the value of the dollar against a basket of currencies, rose to a three-year high in March, as investors continued to seek the safe haven of US treasury ...
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Editor’s Letter: Safety Catch
SAFETY CATCH <br/> The two most powerful forces in modern capitalism are, arguably, greed and fear...