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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones: Credit Crunch Fallout Hits Weakest Nations Hardest

Global By Gordon Platt Raw deal: The poorest will suffer the most The low-income developing countries with little prospect of repaying loans are in the greatest need of help as a result of damage from the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Oil Confounds As Prices Rise While Demand Falls

GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Oil prices have doubled since February without any help from fundamental demand. In fact, demand projections have been revised downward due to the global recession. How long can this levitation act continue? "The global ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Recession-weary Investors May Be Jumping The Gun

GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Levy: Economic recovery will not happen soon Voting with their portfolios, investors are viewing the glass as half full, and their risk appetite is increasing. Confidence among global investors rose for the sixth straight ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Big Emerging Market Mergers Create World-scale Competitors

Mergers & Acquisitions BY GORDON PLATT Two of Brazil's biggest food companies, Perdigão and Sadia, plan to merge in a stock-swap transaction that will create a multinational food company with annual sales of $10.6 billion. The new company, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Bulls Hope Fed Aces Policy Transition

Foreign Exchange BY GORDON PLATT Signs that the US economy is bottoming out and hopes that the Federal Reserve will deftly handle the transition to a less accommodative monetary policy are boosting the dollar, analysts say. They say ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: High-yield Issuance Hits 30-month Peak

Corporate Debt BY GORDON PLATT Companies rushing to refinance bank loans borrowed more than $24 billion in the high-yield debt market in the United States in May, the most since November 2006, according to Montpelier, Vermont-based KDP Investment ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Chinese Cell Phone Brand Unveiled In France

COMPANY TO WATCH: ZTE/CHINA By Gordon Platt ZTE, the largest wireless equipment maker in China, has gained a major share of the global cell phone market. After conquering markets in Asia and Africa with its low-priced handsets, ZTE ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Egyptian Auto Group Trades In Ny And London

DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Cairo-based GB Auto, Egypt's largest listed automaker, auto assembler and distributor, issued global depositary receipts that trade in the New York and London over-the-counter markets. It issued the GDRs without a capital increase. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Lack Of Disclosure Worries Emerging Markets Investors

NEWS By Gordon Platt The biggest challenge of investing in emerging markets is a lack of disclosure on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues, according to a global survey of 67 major investors that support sustainability in ...

Award Winners

Features: World’s Best Sub-custodians

SUB-CUSTODIANS TACKLE NEW CHALLENGES Global Finance selects the leading providers of the specialized services that make cross-border investing possible. By Gordon Platt Global custodians and money managers are putting their sub-custodians under the microscope in the wake ...

Banking

Central Bankers Report Cards 2008

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Contributors: Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Gordon Platt History...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Global Equity/DRs

ASIA, MIDDLE EAST LEADING IPO THAW BY GORDON PLATT The level of initial public offerings has been at historic lows for nearly a year, but recent large IPOs in Asia and the Middle East have broken the ice, ...