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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Oracle’s Big Bond Sale Helps To Lift Gloom

CORPORATE DEBT     Oracle, the world’s third-largest software maker, sold $5 billion of bonds in April, and the successful sale helped to dispel some of the gloom in the corporate bond market. Oracle’s offering of three series of investment-grade ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Stock Issues Boom In Oil-rich Gulf

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS   Saudi Arabia’s Inma Bank, a new Islamic financial institution, raised $2.8 billion in its initial public offering of a 70% stake in April, the largest-ever IPO in the kingdom. Samba Capital, a subsidiary of Samba Financial, was ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Strategic Acquisitions Still Getting Done

  MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     With the credit crunch putting a damper on private equity deals, mergers and acquisitions have declined, but companies are still willing to dip into cash reserves and even borrow significant amounts of money to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Company To Watch: Ecopetrol/Colombia

OIL PRODUCER PLANS TO BE BIG SPENDER     Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-owned oil company, says it hopes to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, following a further privatization to help finance an aggressive spending ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Inflation Flares But Cool Heads Prevail

MIDDLE EAST     GCC monetary leaders are pressing ahead with plans for a single currency, despite pressures to revalue. Central bank governors from the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) gathered in Doha, Qatar, in April ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Rwanda Exchange Trading Bonds

DR NEWS   Zhaikmunai, an independent oil and gas exploration business based in Kazakhstan, has concluded the first-ever listing of global depositary receipts on the London Stock Exchange by a limited partnership. Zhaikmunai raised $100 million in its offering last ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Us Agency Backs African Debt Fund

NEWS   The Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a US development finance organization, has committed up to $100 million in initial funding for a sub-Saharan debt fund to be managed by Standard Bank of South Africa. The Standard Africa Development ...

Award Winners

Features : The Best Emerging Market Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS In our 15th annual survey of top banking performers in emerging markets, we name those banks that are consistently providing high levels of service in fast-evolving markets.   Download PDF (2 MB) The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Sky Is Falling For The Airline Industry

GLOBAL     Hard landing: Delta's merger with Northwest may make it the biggest airline, but analysts question its prospects. The world’s biggest airline in terms of traffic will be created if the proposed merger of Delta Air Lines and ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Newsmakers : Darling’s Approach Winning Out On Global Regulation

UNITED KINGDOM       Darling: Favors a collegiate cross-border regulation system.   Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has been criticized for his handling of the Northern Rock bailout, and he is the subject of an Internet campaign ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Soros Seeks To Tame Counterparty Risk

UNITED STATES       George Soros: The "scariest" part of the current turmoil is CDSs. George Soros, founder and chairman of Soros Fund Management, warned the World Economic Forum in Davos in January that the world is facing its ...
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