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Corporate Finance : Credit default swaps market outstandings shrink as dealers tear up offsetting agreements

CORPORATE DEBT Participants in the over-the-counter credit default swaps (CDS) market have sharply reduced the notional amount of CDS contracts outstanding this year through a series of portfolio compression cycles, also known as tear-ups. The notional outstanding volume ...

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Corporate Finance : Dollar Shoots Higher Amid Financial Crisis

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar will resume its remarkable comeback as slumping economies around the world trigger rising credit defaults and usher in a new flight to safety, currency analysts say. “Developments in the credit and equity markets will ...

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Corporate Finance : New Indexes Track London-listed Gdrs

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS The Bank of New York Mellon introduced 31 new global depositary receipt indexes, including a master index of all GDRs traded on the London Stock Exchange. The bank, which acts as depositary for more than 1,300 ...

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Corporate Finance : Surge Of Bank Mergers Dominates Deal Activity

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Government-encouraged bank mergers and bailouts are keeping global M&A; activity alive amid the financial crisis, which has severely restricted financing for corporate buyouts. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Wachovia, which derailed a ...

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Features : Focus On Liquidity

TREASURY MANAGEMENT: ASIA Facing a unique set of challenges, treasurers in Asia-Pacific are focusing on improving liquidity management. Newton: Organizations placing investment want to know exactly where it is being invested. It is a tough time for corporates ...

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Newsmakers : Firms Hoard Cash As Crisis Deepens

<p>GLOBAL More companies are tightening the screws on customer credit in the wake of the crunch. As the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc in the corporate and financial worlds and shows clear signs of seeping into the ...</p>

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Newsmakers : Regulators Focus On Liquidity Risk

GLOBAL McDowall: A more forensic approach to risk is needed. Regulators across the world may soon be pooling information in an attempt to police global banks’ liquidity risk. Managing liquidity risk, which was not high up on the ...

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Forex Guide 2008

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Corporate Finance : Companies Cancel Ipos As Markets Tumble

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS There were only five initial public offerings in the US market in the third quarter, with no IPO activity after early August. In Europe, withdrawn IPOs were at the highest level in the ...

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Corporate Finance : Credit Crunch And A Slowing Economy Crimp Worldwide Buyout Activity, Putting Strategic Buyers In Control

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Worldwide announced mergers and acquisitions in the first three quarters of 2008 declined by 25% from the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters, reflecting the effects of the credit crunch ...

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Corporate Finance : Frozen Credit Markets Unmoved By Rate Cuts

CORPORATE DEBT Credit markets remain stalled despite heroic efforts by global central banks, regulators and governments to restore confidence in the financial system. A lack of liquidity has made issuing new high-yield bonds almost ...

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Corporate Finance: Dollar Shoots Higher Amid Financial Crisis

FOREIGN EXCHANGE As the financial crisis shook Europe’s banks last month, the European Central Bank joined in a coordinated half-point rate cut with the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and other central banks, excluding the Bank ...