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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Rebound In Risk Appetite Creates Problems For Dollar

Foreign Exchange By Gordon Platt As the global economic recovery gathers pace, the dollar is being undermined by the improvement in investors’ risk appetite. As US and other global investors seek higher returns in emerging markets and commodities, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Rising Defaults Threaten To Derail Rally

Corporate Debt By Gordon Platt The strong rally in the high-yield debt market could be running out of steam, as the number of companies defaulting on their debts continues to rise, analysts say. The US high-yield default ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Sovereign Wealth Funds Prepare To Take More Active Role In M&A

By Gordon Platt Sovereign wealth funds could play a big supporting role as global mergers and acquisitions try to get back on track following a dramatic slowdown in M&A; activity during the credit crisis and global recession. While they ...

Banking

Cover Story: World’s Best Banks 2009

Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best global, regional and country banks. By Gordon Platt Much has changed in the banking world over the past year—although not as much as might have been expected at the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Generic Drug Blockbusters Timed For Yearly Release

Company To Watch: Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories/india By GP Hyderabad-based Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, India’s second-biggest pharmaceutical company, is a major global supplier of generic drugs. It has developed a strategic plan to increase its market share in the United ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Portfolio Flows Resume Into Emerging Europe

News By Gordon Platt Investors are pumping fresh money on a sustained basis into equity funds investing in emerging Europe, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts-based EPFR Global. In the week ended September 2, emerging Europe equity funds took in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Trading In Depositary Receipts Sets Record

Dr News By GP A record of more than 72 billion American and global depositary receipts changed hands in the...

Award Winners

Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2009

During one of the toughest years on record, the world’s central bankers were tested as never before. Contributors: Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Dan Keeler It is clear that 2009 is not a year on which ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones: Governments Begin To Unwind Stimulus Programs

Global Gordon Platt London: G-20 members agree to greater coordination The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed at a meeting in London on September 5 that it was far too early to begin unwinding ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Geithner Presses For Controls On Banks’ Risk-Taking

United States/Global By Gordon Platt Geithner: There should be no return to business as usual It looks like there could be significant reform of the global banking system after all. US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner pushed for meaningful ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Supplement: Turkey Investment Supplement 2009

By Gordon Platt Contributing Writer gplatt@gfmag.com With a motivation for continuing reforms and a strong banking system, Turkey is well positioned to take advantage of the global economic recovery. Its strategic location and the security ...

Banking

Turkey: Banks Primed For Growth

Turkish Banking Turkey has a robust banking system that is ready to support the country’s economic growth. By Gordon Platt Tansan: “Turkey’s banks are the best in the world in terms of the strength of their capital ...