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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Global Equity/DRs
Equity Capital Underwriting Fees Rise 33% Gordon Platt Underwriting fees from global equity capital market transactions in the first nine months of 2009 rose 33% from the same period a year earlier to an estimated $14.8 billion, according ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions
Morgan Stanley Leads After Three Quarters BY Gordon Platt Morgan Stanley edged out Goldman Sachs as the top financial adviser on mergers and acquisitions worldwide in the first three quarters of 2009, as M&A; activity declined 38% from ...
Country Report
Features: Brazil Country Report – Everything To Play For
EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR As Brazilian president Lula prepares to step down, the country is facing a remarkably bright future—and a presidential election that is far from a foregone conclusion. By Antonio Guerrero Brazilian ...
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Features: World’s Best Derivatives Providers
Derivatives Stage A Comeback Market participants are rediscovering the appeal of derivatives, and the providers that stayed the course during the recent meltdown are reaping the benefits. By Laurence Neville In the year covered by Global Finance’s ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX Supplement: FX Swaps Get Kid-Glove Treatment
Swaps Foreign exchange swaps appear to be about to emerge unscathed from the flurry of new regulation prompted by the recent financial turmoil. By Gordon Platt Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, released a ...
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BIGGEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2009
Global Finance Ranks the 200 Biggest Emerging Market Banks. NEW YORK, October 15, 2009 — As the world’s key emerging...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance: Brazil, China Lead Global IPO Rebound
Global Equity/drs By Gordon Platt Brazil and China accounted for two-thirds of global capital raised through initial public offerings in the second quarter, with the United States and Europe lagging behind. The US market sprang to life in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Trading In Depositary Receipts Sets Record
Dr News By GP A record of more than 72 billion American and global depositary receipts changed hands in the...
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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2009
During one of the toughest years on record, the world’s central bankers were tested as never before. Contributors: Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Dan Keeler It is clear that 2009 is not a year on which ...
Country Report
Features: Country Report: China
THE NEXT GREAT LEAP FORWARD Ample liquidity and a bold government stimulus package have catapulted China past stumbling rival economies. By Thomas Clouse China is showing few symptoms of an economic crisis. While many of the world’s ...
News
Newsmakers: Potential Lula Successor Clears Legal Hurdle
Brazil Antonio Guerrero Palocci: Stillfacing more corruption allegatio ns Former Brazilian finance minister Antonio Palocci has won a political victory after the country‘s Supreme Court dismissed charges that he violated bank secrecy laws. The ruling could put Palocci, ...