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Features : Managing The Managers

TRANSITION MANAGEMENT Increasingly sophisticated clients are demanding ever higher standards from their transition management teams. Citi's Tim Wilkinson Complex portfolio alterations require specialist knowledge across numerous fields, and pension funds, asset managers and insurance firms are increasingly looking for ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Future Of Terrorism Insurance Hangs In The Balance

United states Most companies take out some form of professional indemnity, liability and business insurance, but the latest addition to companies’ insurance portfolios is property terrorism insurance. Such products are becoming increasingly prevalent among larger to mid-size US ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

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...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

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...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

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...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Low For Dollar Not End Of Its Descent

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar fell to a record low against the euro last month and a 25-year low against the British pound following news that US economic growth in the first quarter was the weakest in four years. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Credit Where It’s Due

CORPORATE TOOLBOX / CREDIT DERIVATIVES Corporates have largely ignored the rapidly growing credit derivatives market for years. But will it help or hinder them if global growth begins to slow? The credit derivatives market has been one of the greatest ...

Banking

Features : Mobile Freedom

FINANCIAL SOFTWARE / CASH MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS A new generation of mobile technology promises to bring comprehensive remote access to corporate finance systems for executives on the road. For many companies, mobile phones, PDAs and other mobile devices ...

Banking

Features : On A Roll

20TH ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHT / INVESTMENT BANKING Investment bankers are riding a wave of profits in an expanding universe for their services. Ivanov: There is no limit to growth Year after year the world’s investment banks have been turning ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Open Access

FOCUS / TREASURY MANAGEMENT On-demand software services are making increasingly sophisticated treasury management systems available to a much wider range of companies. Atypical day in the life of a corporate treasurer entails managing the company’s cash, ensuring ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Taking Risk Beyond Regulation

TECHNIQUES / RISK MANAGEMENT As corporate risk systems become more sophisticated, businesses are moving beyond simple compliance and proving that better management of risk can drive greater efficiency. Over the past few years there has been a ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Copper Producer’s Bonds Rise With Price Of Metal

CORPORATE DEBT Investors who bought into a $6 billion bond issued by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in March saw the...