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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Emerging Markets May Face Deeper Pain

GLOBAL IMF: Expects heavy demand for funds. In the most bearish research report on emerging markets seen by Global Finance since the credit crisis began, an RBC Capital research note published on January 15 claims that most major ...

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Features : World’s Best Derivatives Providers 2008

BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS 2008 Global Finance’s fifth annual awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers come against a backdrop of unprecedented change in financial markets. The long bull market came to an end last year. In its place ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Businesses Find Internal Solution To Liquidity Shortage

GLOBAL Cash in hand: Corporations are looking within for liquidity. The banking sector is under siege, with unprecedented nationalizations globally and a widespread assumption that the extraordinary profits of the past decade may never return. However, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Growing pains

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat? Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

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Features : World’s Best Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY / WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2008 Now more than ever, the world’s best banks deserve recognition for continuing to provide excellent products and high levels of service to their clients, despite the distractions of the global credit ...

News

Newsmakers : Medvedev Tries To Calm Russia Bears

RUSSIA Medvedev: Seemingly helpless in the face of a stock market rout. Can Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev save the country’s financial markets? In the second week of September he declared that it was “within ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Private Equity Investments Linked To Corporate Defaults

GLOBAL Vazza: Expects the default rate to continue growing. As private equity investors size up the new opportunities the credit crunch presents, companies in their sights might do well to consider a report published ...

News

Milestones : Europe’s Ipo Market Slumps

EUROPE Blowout: EDP Renováveis' stock tumbled more than 20% after its IPO With equity capital markets bankers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) market focused on massive rights issues to recapitalize their peers in recent months, ...

News

Milestones : Banks Struggle To Raise Cash

EUROPE UBS: Its third cash call, this time to investors, was successful. Almost a year after the US subprime crisis burst onto the wider global stage, Europe’s banks are paying ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: The Found Continent

AFRICA Long ignored by mainstream investors and corporations, Africa has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Its resilience in the recent credit crunch is just part of the reason. An oil worker stands on the deck of ...

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Features : Awards: Best Developed Markets Banks

WORLD’S BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS 2008 BEST DEVELOPED MARKETS BANKS Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks in developed markets around the world. The past year has been one of the most tumultuous in recent ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Adapting To Survive

SECTOR REPORT / PRIVATE EQUITY Cash-heavy buyout firms are still looking for deals, but the rising cost of borrowing may result in their emulating their smaller private equity cousins. Just a few months ago there were ...