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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Latin American Markets Ride Out Global Turmoil

LATIN AMERICA Lipsky: Sounds a warning. When the meltdown in US subprime mortgages triggered forecasts of a possible US recession, unleashing global credit and money market volatility, Latin America proved to be relatively insulated from the debacle. Though ...

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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : International banks enjoy Brazilian boom times

Brazil Brazil’s strong capital markets recovery and IPO blitz has prompted international investment banks to put the country back on their radars. Lehman Brothers, which exited Brazil in 2003 amid a near market collapse, has reopened its São ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Records Fall As Indian Business Thrives

India On track: Delhis new subway trains. The metro railway authority in New Delhi placed a record order for 340 subway coaches with Bombardier Transportation, Montreal-based Bombardier’s Indian subsidiary. Worth $590 million, the order is the largest ever ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Us exchanges maintain lead in dr trading

Dr news American and global depositary receipt trading was easily at an all-time high in the first half of 2007 and was higher than every full-year total since 2006, according to The Bank of New York Mellon. The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Who’s Who

“WHO’S WHO” IN TREASURY AND CASH MANAGEMENT TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT 2007 Anne Boden Head, Transaction Banking, Europe ABN AMRO Anne Boden manages ABN AMRO Transaction Banking across Europe. She is also responsible for preparing it for future ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Latin America There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s Letter : A Turbulent Transformation

In this months cover story we look at the seismic changes that have been taking place recently in the balance of power in Latin America...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Em Debt Trading Sets Record

News The value of trading in emerging markets fixed-income instruments totaled $1.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2007, an increase of 4% from the same period a year earlier, according to EMTA, formerly the Emerging Markets Traders ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Meat Processors Bulk Up With Foreign Acquisitions

Brazil Beefing up: Brazilian meat producer JBS is set to buy the US's Swift Following a spate of local IPOs by Brazil's main meat processing companies, sector players are now engaged in an acquisitions spree to expand their ...

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...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Making The Grade

BRAZIL Brazil's agricultural output is helping boost its economy Brazil moved closer to a coveted investment-grade rating in May as both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch upgraded the sovereign to BB+ from BB. The rating puts it just ...