Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
RMB: GETTING READY FOR THE REDBACK
Fast-paced developments in China and overseas are bolstering the renminbi’s international expansion.
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SANCTIONS THREATEN RUSSIAN DEALS
Mergers and acquisitions involving Russian companies, including Morgan Stanley’s planned sale of its global oil-trading unit to Rosneft, are threatened by Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET
Despite a pause in February, when the number of share purchase authorizations declined by 32% over the same period a year ago, share buybacks are still very popular on Wall Street.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SRI LANKA: LIBERALIZING FOR GROWTH
Sri Lanka has an open business environment, but challenges—not least its recovery from the civil war that ended in 2009—remain.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
THE AFRICAN LIONS ROAR
REGIONAL REPORT <br />
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic lions are pulling the continent into an unprecedented era of wealth creation and prosperity. With year-on-year growth of between 7% and 9%, Ghana, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Ethiopia have played a pivotal role in helping Africa’s economy triple in size since 2000.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
A Climate of Risk
Weird weather presents major problems for supply chains, and 77% of companies believe climate change has the potential to significantly affect their revenue.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Africa: Powering Up In Ethiopia
Iceland’s Reykjavik Geothermal will launch a $2 billion project in July to build a power plant on an imploded volcano in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley. The plant, slated to begin operations by 2020, will have a generation capacity of 500 megawatts of electricity.
Banking
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ANNUAL MEETING
Inter-Asian trade will lead the agenda items at this year’s annual Asian Development Bank meeting, to be held May 2-5, 2014, in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Debt: Verizons Refi Redux
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Verizon Communications, which sold $49 billion of debt last September in the largest bond sale ever, has returned to the bond market repeatedly this year to take advantage of low interest rates ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Country Report: Malaysia
Malaysia’s strong current account and FX reserves will safeguard it against external shocks, but high leverage and simmering ethnic tensions remain weak points.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover: The Global Trade Backlash
Multinational corporations lobbied hard for preferential agreements under proposed Asian and European trade pacts. But the result may be more than they bargained for.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Dubai: Builders Paradise, Redux
MIDDLE EAST 2014 SUPPLEMENT By Gordon Platt Dubai has rolled over its debt and keeps on spending in preparation for...