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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DR Trading Sets Record In First Half

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Depositary receipt trading worldwide rose 8.3% to more than 78 billion DRs in the first half of this year and was valued at a record $1.84 trillion, according to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Market Deals Boost M&A

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Emerging markets accounted for nearly one-third of global mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2010, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters. M&A; activity involving companies ...

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High-Yield Debt Has Record Half

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The volume of global corporate high-yield debt issues in the first half of 2010 set an all-time record for any six-month period, according to Thomson Reuters. The total of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Lower Volatility Spurs Carry Trade

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The Federal Reserve is likely to keep US interest rates at record lows well into next year, enabling global investors to borrow dollars for a song and invest in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Top Firms Spurn Bank Finance

EUROPE By Anita Hawser No thank you: Companies reject costly bank loans Investment-grade companies are shunning bank lending and opting instead for the bond markets in order to raise financing, a report by Fitch Ratings says. Based on ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Turbulence Indices Provide Risk Insight

GLOBAL By Anita Hawser State Street’s Will Kinlaw Stress testing risk models and investment portfolios for extreme market events has certainly come into vogue in the wake of the financial crisis. Banks’ risk models were criticized for focusing ...
Awards Ceremony New York City In late April

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Treasury & Cash Management Awards

Awards Ceremony New York City In late April, over 50 people came to the New York Harvard Club to celebrate the winners of Global Finance's seventh annual Best Treasury & Cash Management Awards. Cash management banks maintain that ...

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Slow Take-Off

READERS' CHOICE AWARDS By Paula L. Green Best Hotels & Airlines Business travel is slowly recovering from a recession-induced slump. The corporate clampdown on travel budgets that began during the global recession is gradually easing, and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Airline And Telecom Mergers Heat Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Consolidation in the US airline and global telecom industries has kept merger activity going in the past few months. The proposed merger of United Airlines, based in Chicago, ...

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Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2010

ANNUAL SURVEY —BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDERS 2010 Joining The Chain Gang By Anita Hawser The leading players in the supply chain finance business demonstrate the benefits of innovation and commitment to a growing market. A ...
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