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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 ...

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Author: Gordon Platt

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

Corporate Finance : Stock Issues Boom In Oil-rich Gulf

Corporate Finance : Strategic Acquisitions Still Getting Done

Emerging Markets : Company To Watch: Ecopetrol/Colombia

Emerging Markets : Inflation Flares But Cool Heads Prevail

Emerging Markets : Rwanda Exchange Trading Bonds

Emerging Markets : Us Agency Backs African Debt Fund

Features : The Best Emerging Market Banks 2008

Milestones : Sky Is Falling For The Airline Industry

Newsmakers : Darling’s Approach Winning Out On Global Regulation

Newsmakers : Soros Seeks To Tame Counterparty Risk

Corporate Finance : Big Chinese Ipos Keep Coming Despite Downturn In Stock Market, Putting Shanghai Exchange In Lead