Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Emerging Markets Volatility Declines
NEWS Measurable risk and volatility have declined in emerging markets over the past 10 years, providing attractive long-term risk/return characteristics,...
Author: Gordon Platt
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Banking
Features : The Best Emerging Market Banks 2007
ANNUAL SURVEY In our 14th annual survey of top banking performers in emerging markets, we name those banks that are...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : New Adr Trading Venue Means Less Onerous Reporting Requirements
DR NEWS Pink Sheets, a company that provides services for the US over-the-counter securities markets, introduced an alternative trading system...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Saudi Stocks Bounce Back
NEWS The volatile Saudi Arabian stock market, which lost 50% of its value in a steep correction in 2006, has...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Carry Trades Unwind With A Vengeance
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The apparent cause of the turmoil in global equity markets and emerging market currencies that began in late...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Digicel Bonds Set Caribbean Record
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT Jamaica-based Digicel placed $1.4 billion of high-yield bonds with institutional investors in an innovative...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Is Private Equity Going Green?
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS An investor group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group definitively...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Japanese Companies Are Rushing To Raise Equity Capital As Economy Finally Shows Stronger Growth
CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS Despite the sharp tumble in the Chinese stock market in late February and early March, which triggered...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Investors Guzzle Juice Maker’s Ipo
COMPANY TO WATCH: CHINA HUIYUAN JUICE/CHINA China Huiyuan Juice, based in Beijing, raised more than $300 million in an initial...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : The New Arab Economies
THE MIDDLE EAST Economic reforms are spurring a flood of private sector investment that is helping to put the regions...
News
Special Report : Competition Heats Up In Banking And Finance
THE MIDDLE EAST Dramatic growth in many of the Middle Easts economies is prompting a sharp rise in competition in...
News
Special Report : Reliance Grows On Private Sector
RELIANCE GROWS ON PRIVATE SECTOR THE MIDDLE EAST The nations of the Middle East are increasingly looking to the private...