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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan Gives Dollar Strong Start To 2009 On Hopes Us Will Recover First

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar rose in early January, as investors weighed the likely effects of president-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and as analysts said the United States could be the first major economy to recover from the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Volatility Boosts Trading But Shuts Out Ipos

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Initial public offerings in the United States plunged 86% last year to the lowest level in 31 years, with only one IPO priced in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Thomson Reuters. By comparison, 60 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Brazilian Mall Operator Upgrades Restricted ADRs

DR NEWS Seeking to raise its profile with international investors, BRMalls, Brazil’s largest shopping mall operator, upgraded its restricted American depositary receipt program to a Level I facility sponsored by J.P. Morgan. Rio de Janeiro-based BRMalls offers an opportunity for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Instant Messaging Craze Sweeps China

COMPANY TO WATCH: TENCENT HOLDINGS/CHINA Instant messaging (IM) has become a cultural phenomenon in China. Tencent Holdings is a Hong Kong-listed company with the bulk of its assets in China, where its QQ brand controls 80% of the IM market. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Investors Return To Em Bond Funds

NEWS With US treasury bonds offering paltry rates of return, investors are taking a closer look at emerging market debt as a way to pick up an additional 600 basis points or more of yield. EM bond funds ...

Award Winners

Features: World’s best trade finance banks 2009

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are enjoying rising demand for basic risk management services as world trade faces a difficult period. Global trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982, ...

Banking

Milestones : Asia’s 1 Billion Muslims Beckon Islamic Bankers

ASIA-PACIFIC Asia looks to cash in on its emerging Islamic financial center status. The Asia-Pacific region already accounts for 60% of the world’s Islamic banking assets and could be a center of growth for the shariah-compliant finance industry ...

News

Newsmakers : In Obama America Trusts, At Least For The Next Months

UNITED STATES Barack Obama takes the oath of office during the inauguration ceremony President Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20 bordered on a coronation, but the rhetoric will have to be turned quickly into reality if the historic ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : 1,000 Unsponsored Adr Programs Created In Last Three Months, Often Without Consent Of Issuers

GLOBAL EQUITY /DRS More than 1,000 unsponsored American depositary receipt programs were created in the last three months of 2008, in many cases without the permission of the companies whose shares are being traded in the US over-the-counter ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Credit Market Enters Eye Of The Storm

CORPORATE DEBT A combination of heavy supply and rising defaults makes it difficult to forecast a bottom for the credit markets in 2009, analysts say. The new-issue market in US high-yield bonds remained frozen solid late last year, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Middle Market Caves In Under Weight Of Crunch

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS * Figures may not add up, as more than one bank typically obtains credit for any one transaction. Merger and acquisition activity in the middle market, which had held up relatively well in the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Shortage Of Dollars Supports Greenback

FOREIGN EXCHANGE A persistent shortage of dollars in global money markets is helping to bolster the greenback, even as US economic data portray an economy that is mired in recession, currency analysts say. The dollar continues to benefit ...