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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Horror Story With A Happy Ending

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE The recent downturn in the credit cycle has hit media industry restructuring, but Hollywood is attracting investors for new film financing deals. The boom in leveraged buyouts in the media industry hit a brick ...

Banking

Milestones : Booming Islamic Finance Faces Hurdles

GLOBAL High aspirations: Islamic finance on the rise. Excess liquidity and the tidal wave of petrodollars flooding into the Middle East are causing a surge of interest in Islamic finance. The growth rate of the industry is now ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

Banking

Regional Report GCC : Economic Boom Won’t Quit

<p>Regional Report / Gcc High oil prices keep the ball rolling, as the Gulf region’s economic growth momentum carries it through a rough patch in the stock markets. Kingdom Tower Riyadh: As capital spending rises, ...</p>

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...

Technology

Cover Story : Stepping Up

GOING GLOBAL Lacking the financial clout of multinationals or small enterprises’ easy access to government grants, mid-size companies are riding the wave of new technologies and today’s more liberal trading and regulatory schemes to successfully break into foreign ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Rupee Strengthens To Nine-year High Against The Dollar

INDIA Winds of change: The Indian rupee rises against the dollar The Indian rupee gained nearly 7% over a nine-week period culminating in the second week of May in a nine-year high against the US dollar on increasing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Breaking Out

FOCUS / INDIA INC. Indias biggest corporations are spreading their wings and becoming truly global organizations. Mittal Grandeur promises to...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : The Bank of New York

GLOBAL CUSTODY BUYERS GUIDE Global Finance presents its annual sponsored guide to the leading providers in the global custody market....

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Breaking Out

Brazilian companies, long used to concentrating on their countrys local market, are now increasingly going global. Just as the 1990s...

News

Features : Custodians Carve Out a Global Footprint

The global custody and investor services industry is embarking on a new round of consolidation On December 4, 2006, when...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Us Cross-border M&a Outflow Sets Record

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Cross-border mergers and acquisitions originating from US-based buyers reached a record $187.4 billion in the year-to-date period...