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FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war ...

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FX: Prime Brokerage

READY FOR PRIME TIME By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. Future growth of the foreign exchange prime brokerage industry will come from asset managers that are ...

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FX: Renminbi Rising

China's trade deficit with the US rose to another record in August, fanning the brush fires that have broken out in the currency markets. Currency issues dominated talks at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ...

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FX: The Rising Euro

RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS By Jonathan Gregson After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise. Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...

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FX: Who’s who

WHO'S WHO By Gordon Platt Key players in foreign exchange. Jamie Thorsen Executive managing director BMO Capital Markets Jamie Thorsen heads global foreign exchange operations in Canada, the US and Europe for BMO Capital Markets and oversees ...

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M&A: Hostile Takeover Bids Increasing

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Worldwide mergers and acquisitions are increasing, and the proportion of takeover offers that are unsolicited is at the highest level in at least a decade. The value of ...

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Best In Class 2010

ANNUAL SURVEY: WORLD’S BEST BANKS A selection from Global Finance’s best banks awards from the past year. BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS (cont.) BEST ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BEST TREASURY ...

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Companies Continue To Hoard Cash In Wake Of Credit Crunch

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser It is not just banks that are coming under increasing criticism for their liquidity-hoarding tendencies....

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Debt

CORPORATE DEBT ISSUANCE STAYS STRONG, BUT RISK PREMIUMS RISE SHARPLY By Gordon Platt While the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates significantly this year in light of high US unemployment and subdued inflation, the long-running rally ...

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Corporate Finance: Foreign Exchange

EUROPE’S DEBT PANIC BRINGS DOWN EURO, SPURS DOLLAR RALLY By Gordon Platt Weakness in the euro is contributing to the...

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Corporate Finance: Global Equity/DRs

EMERGING MARKETS LEAD DR ISSUANCE By Gordon Platt Companies from emerging markets established 57 new depositary receipt programs in 2009, more than half of the year's total worldwide, according to an analysis by BNY Mellon. China-based issuers led ...

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Corporate Finance: M&A

LATIN AMERICA TAKES MERGER SPOTLIGHT By Gordon Platt Mergers in Mexico and Brazil that will create strong regional and global competitors in a number of industries overshadowed a dormant M&A; market in the United States in January. ...