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Awards

World’s Best Banks 2011

COVER STORY: AND THE WINNER IS… By Gordon Platt Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country. Many of the world’s leading banks have posted significant increases in earnings so far ...

News

Beers: The Man Who Pulled The Trigger On The US Triple-A

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt David Beers, managing director and head of sovereign credit ratings for Standard & Poor’s in London, is the mustachioed face behind the rating agency’s downgrade of US treasury bonds to AA+ from ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works/Russia

UPGRADES INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS FOR MAGNITOGORSK By Gordon Platt Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), one of Russia’s top steel producers, is upgrading its production facilities to improve its competitiveness in the global steel market and replace imports in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Weak economic signals gave a boost to bond prices in the second quarter, but rising economic risk in the US makes it unlikely that the fast pace of debt issuance ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

MOTHBALLED INDIAN GDRS COMING TO MARKET By Gordon Platt More than $1 billion of planned global depositary receipt (GDR) issues from companies in India were delayed in March, when market conditions deteriorated following the outbreak of hostilities in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Capital raisings using depositary receipts (DRs) nearly tripled in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period a year earlier, while DR trading volume and the number of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

CHINA’S INFLATION NEAR PEAK, INVESTORS EYE EARNINGS GROWTH By Gordon Platt China’s monetary policy-tightening is advanced relative to other economies, and domestic inflation, which is centered in food prices, may be near a peak, analysts say. “As ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The EU summit in July not only reached agreement on a second...

Banking

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Christine Lagarde will be under the microscope at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington on September 23–25. Lagarde: Wants relevant, credible and effective IMF The silver-haired woman the French like ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Author: Gordon Platt

World’s Best Banks 2011

Beers: The Man Who Pulled The Trigger On The US Triple-A

Company To Watch: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works/Russia

Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

M&A: Energy, Power Light Up Global M&A

Special Report: Equity Derivatives

Jamie Dimon Leads Banks’ Basel III Battle