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WORLD’S BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2011
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM Funds Attract Record Inflows
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Equity funds that are mandated to invest in all emerging markets globally ended September with their 18th consecutive week of net inflows, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts–based EPFR Global. Year-to-date flows into ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil
ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Brazil lights up at the prospect of increased foreign investment Sinopec, China's second-largest oil and gas producer, is investing $7.1 billion in the Brazilian unit of Spain's Repsol YPF oil company. The capital increase, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equity: Coal India’s IPO Breaks Ground
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt State-owned Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, was seeking to raise up to $3.5 billion in the country's biggest initial public offering, which began on October 18. That ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Cross-Border Trade
TRAIL BLAZERS By Gordon Platt Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order. The Bric countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—have a combined gross domestic product that is greater than that of ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: The Rising Euro
RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS By Jonathan Gregson After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise. Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Who’s who
WHO'S WHO By Gordon Platt Key players in foreign exchange. Jamie Thorsen Executive managing director BMO Capital Markets Jamie Thorsen heads global foreign exchange operations in Canada, the US and Europe for BMO Capital Markets and oversees ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Latin America Focus: Brazil Elections
A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW By Denise Bedell Investors are preparing for post-Lula life after Brazil's drawn-out presidential election. When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took over as president of Brazil in January 2003, investors and the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A: Hostile Takeover Bids Increasing
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Worldwide mergers and acquisitions are increasing, and the proportion of takeover offers that are unsolicited is at the highest level in at least a decade. The value of ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Mexico: Bond Issue Breaks New Ground
MILESTONES: MEXICO By Antonio Guerrero Mexico’s financing needs taken care of with century bond Mexico may have set the stage for a stampede in October when it successfully issued Latin America's first-ever sovereign century bond, a $1 billion, ...
Features
OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair, 1998-2010
Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair (US$ billion) You will need javascript to view this feature. Data is from the Bank for International Settlements Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, September, 2010. Click ...