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Features: The Americas – Nafta

CAN NAFTA FILL THE GAP? For gaps in Nafta to be plugged, it may take smaller bilateral agreements rather than wide-ranging change to the original FTA. By Denise Bedell Renegotiating Nafta: (from left to right) US president ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

High-Yield Bond Issuance Surges

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt August was supposed to be a sleepy month in the high-yield debt market, but it turned out to be anything but quiet. Total high-yield issuance in the US for ...

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IMF And World Bank Lurch Into Conflict Over Emerging Markets

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Michael Shari As finance ministers and top executives of the world's largest banks converge in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, a simmering diplomatic conflict between ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers: Financial Turmoil Hits London’s Status

United Kingdom By Anita Hawser Jenkins: London faces threat from multiple emerging market centers As economic power increasingly shifts toward the East and regulators in the West look to rein in the growth of their financial sectors, senior ...

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Petrobras Sale Clears Way for IPOs

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company, was scheduled to come to market with $35 billion of shares as Global Finance went to press. That would make the sale the world's ...

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Resource Battle Turns To Potash

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The cross-border battle for global resources is now focused on potash, with BHP Billiton's $43 billion hostile bid for Saskatoon-based Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, the world's largest producer ...

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Risky Business

FOCUS: RISK CONSULTING By Paula L. Green Companies are showing increasing interest in employing risk consultants to help them manage their exposure. As they protect employees, property and supply chains flung around the globe, corporate executives are ...

Banking

SIBOS: Asian Transaction Banking

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT By Denise Bedell Corporates are demanding increasingly sophisticated cash and trade solutions within Asia. Those banks that want to stay competitive must step up their game. Asia is a key growth area for transaction banking ...

Banking

SIBOS: Payments Innovation

UNCHARTED TERRITORY By Anita Hawser Banks are struggling to keep up with nonbank rivals in the race to create the next generation of payment systems. It may have been unfettered innovation that got banks into hot water ...

Banking

SIBOS: Remittances

BANKS MAKE A BID FOR A GROWING MARKET By Anita Hawser Technological innovations and the rapid acceleration of globalization are driving a sharp increase in banks' interest in the remittances market. We are on the cusp of ...

Banking

SIBOS: Supply Chain Finance

CHANGE MANAGEMENT By Denise Bedell Banks are changing the way they look at their own transaction business to help companies see further into their working capital management processes. The need for integrated trade and cash solutions was ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM: Risks And Rewards

By Anita Hawser Having survived one of the worst recessions on record, companies understand better than ever that treasury management is important for improved efficiency, whether through tightening their accounts-receivable or accounts-payable processes to unlock working capital or limiting ...