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DR News: Unsponsored DRs Abound Amid Lack Of New Issues

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt The market for new sponsored depositary receipt programs for companies in emerging markets has dried up since the equity market turmoil in August, but there has continued to be a steady ...

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EM News: BRIC Exchanges Announce Alliance

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Stock exchanges in the BRIC countries, plus South Africa, plan to cross-list equity index derivatives as the first phase of a joint initiative announced at the annual meeting of the World ...

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EM Regional Review: Latin America

PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...

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Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The US market for initial public offerings sprang to life in November, following a two-month drought. The successful $700 million offering by Groupon, which was the largest IPO by ...

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FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Risk aversion appeared to be creeping back into the markets in early November, as the initial euphoria about the eurozone’s master plan to solve the debt crisis began to fade. ...

Banking

Living Wills Improve Banks’ Crisis And Risk Management

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser While the focus at the moment may be on bailing out indebted countries in the eurozone, one of the legacies of Lehman’s collapse is the need for systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) to ...

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M&A: US Shale-Gas Boom Attracts FDI

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Foreign buyers accounted for 76% of the total value of US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter of this year, with 22 deals valued at ...

Banking

Special Report: AFP Conference

AUTOMATION, TAXATION AND RISK REDUCTION BY Denise Bedell Risk management and technology were key themes of the annual AFP conference in Boston in November. Jegher, Celent: Only a fraction of banks now offer corporate mobile banking solutions The annual ...

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DR News: Unsponsored DRs Abound Amid Lack Of New Issues

EM News: BRIC Exchanges Announce Alliance

EM Regional Review: Latin America

Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market

FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail

Living Wills Improve Banks’ Crisis And Risk Management

M&A: US Shale-Gas Boom Attracts FDI

Special Report: AFP Conference

World’s BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2012

FX Supplement: China’s Lofty Ambitions For The Renminbi

FX Supplement: Currency Wars: Changing Tactics

FX Supplement: Dollar Reserve Currency Still Reigns