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Corporate Finance : Buyouts Keep Getting Bigger As Private Equity Firms Rush To Invest Billions Pouring Into New Funds

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The four-year-old boom in private equity investing reached a feverish pitch this summer as firms awash with cash hurried to put some of it to work in corporate takeovers and billions of dollars more poured ...

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Corporate Finance : Dollar Stays Strong, But Yen Tumbles

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The US dollar index, a measure of the value of the dollar against a basket of currencies, rose to a three-year high in March, as investors continued to seek the safe haven of US treasury ...

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Corporate Finance : Drug Mergers Ease M&a Drought

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The need for bigger drug-development pipelines and more diversified businesses with greater geographic reach is fueling a wave of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry that is providing investment bankers with some much-needed underwriting fees. ...

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Corporate Finance : Ice Begins Clearing Credit Default Swaps As Counterparty Risk Hits Record High

CORPORATE DEBT The first central counterparty clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS) began operating on March 9, the same day that perceptions of default risk among the largest derivatives market makers in the over-the-counter market rose to an ...

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Corporate Finance : Nyse Lists Carbon Allowances Fund

GLOBAL EQUITY /DRS The calendar of planned initial public offerings in the US was bone dry last month, and the only issue of size on the international horizon was a scheduled $1 billion preferred securities offering by ...

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Features: Global Custody

BUYER’S GUIDE Global Finance presents its annual sponsored guide to the leading providers in the global custody market. SUB-CUSTODIANS DEUTSCHE BANK Custody Assets: 2008: €1.272 trillion 2007: €1.609 trillion Ratings: Moody’s Aa1, S&P; A+, Fitch AA- ...

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Features: Local Heroes

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT ASIA REGIONAL REPORT Many businesses in Asia were well prepared for the credit crunch, having learned some important lessons in previous regional crises. By Anita Hawser As the subprime crisis rocked the foundations of ...

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Features: Risky Business

FOCUS ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT Risk managers are heading back to the drawing board after finding their systems were incapable of flagging up the perils that have brought the financial and corporate worlds to their knees. First developed more ...

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BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE BANKS – 2009

NEW YORK, November 18, 2008 Global Finance magazine has named the Best Foreign Exchange Banks and Providers by country, region...

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BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDERS – 2009

Americas Citi Europe BNP Paribas Central and Eastern Europe UniCredit Middle East Arab Bank Nordic SEB Asia Standard Chartered Africa...

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Corporate Finance : Corporate Debt

ICE BEGINS CLEARING CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS AS COUNTERPARTY RISK HITS RECORD HIGH The first central counterparty clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS) began operating on March 9, the same day that perceptions of default risk among the largest derivatives market ...

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Corporate Finance : Dollar Remains Strong Amid Global Turmoil

Foreign Exchange Weak economic data from the eurozone, heralding further interest rate reductions in Europe, are helping to keep the dollar strong. Meanwhile, Japan’s worsening trade statistics are raising warning signals about the high-flying yen, analysts say. ...