Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features : Clear Path
SECTOR REPORT / TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Large corporations are leaping at the chance to connect directly to the banks...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
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Banking
Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead
ISLAMIC INVESTMENT BANKING Investor demand, banks’ creativity and deep pools of liquidity in the Middle East are driving strong growth in the development of Islamic investment banking products. Hassoune:“Investors and entrepreneurs must hare the risks and rewards of ...
Award Winners
Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007
ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS The fourth annual Global Finance awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers comes at a time when derivatives are in the mainstream news as never before. The US subprime mortgage crisis has ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestones : Loonie Bests The Greenback For The First Time In More Than 30 Years
CANADA/UNITED STATES Piling up: The loonie posts record gains against the US dollar. Record prices for Canadian commodities have combined...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE As risk appetite returns to the global markets, the dollar could lose what little support it has gained from its role as a safe-haven currency during the recent period of turbulence, analysts ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : China, Russia Compete For Biggest Ipo Of Year
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China is likely to have the year’s biggest initial public offering for the second year in a row, although there remains a chance that Russia will beat it out. As Global Finance went to press, China Construction Bank ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Commercial Paper Market Dries Up
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT The market for short-term corporate IOUs, or commercial paper, has continued to shrink in recent weeks amid the spreading credit crunch, putting more pressure on traditional bank credit lines. Commercial paper outstanding in the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The global credit crunch appears to be having a major impact on the size and financing of takeovers, where cash deals for much smaller targets are increasingly the rule. The biggest announced M&A; transaction worldwide in August ...
Banking
Features : Collateral Damage
FOCUS / TERRORISM FUNDING Legislation aimed at cracking down on funding for terrorists is having some damaging side effects for banks and businesses. Kochan: It may be a fallacy that banks can anticipate terrorist financing. Following the attacks ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features : In For The Long Haul
ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Brazilian Companies Lead Rush By Latin American Issuers To Tap Us Private-placement Market
Corporate financing news / global equity/drs Latin American equity capital markets had their biggest month ever in July, with $9.6 billion in proceeds from 23 issues, an increase of 48% from the previous record of $6.5 billion set ...