Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover: Three Scenarios for Brazil
SUNSET, OR A NEW SUNRISE? By Michael Shari Brazil faces a monumental challenge in meeting the expectations of its citizens,...
China
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Roundup: China
CHINESE SOLAR-PANEL MAKERS FACE TRADE TARIFFS IN EUROPE By Thomas Clouse Chinese companies face trade friction in Europe now that the European Commission has imposed tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The EU charges that Chinese companies are ...
Banking
Equity: Companies Raise More DR Capital
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The pace of capital raising using depositary receipts has accelerated sharply from last year, and the pipeline of future issues is strong, DR bankers say. Much of the recent activity ...
Features
Frontier Markets Focus: Cambodia
<p><strong>THE CONTENDER</strong><br />
Cambodia is emerging as a key investment destination—and potential consumer market—for companies focused on Southeast Asia. After more than a decade of 6%-plus growth—with just one hiccup during the global crisis in 2009—this nation of 15 million people has begun attracting serious interest.</p>
Banking
M&A: US, China M&A Activity Heating Up
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Shanghui International, China’s biggest pork producer, agreed to pay $4.7 billion to acquire Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer. If the deal succeeds, it should be the biggest ...
Banking
Regional Report: Central Asia
DESPERATE TO DIVERSIFY By Kim Iskyan The countries of central Asia are working hard to become more than one-trick ponies, as each struggles in its own way to reduce economic reliance on a single growth driver. The five ...
Banking
Salon: Izzet Bensusan, Karbone
<p>TRADING IN THE GREEN By Udayan Gupta At Global Finance ’s monthly Salon, Izzet Bensusan, executive director of renewable-energy investment boutique Karbone, discussed the market dynamics, financing and investment oppor-tunities for alternative energy. PHOTO: KATE FREY Given a politically ...</p>
Banking
SIBOS 2013: Bridging The Gap In Emerging Markets Trade Finance
<p>THE GREAT DIVIDE By Susan Kelly As inter- and intra-regional trade in emerging markets continues to grow, the gap between needed and available trade finance is also on the increase. But new financing sources and new tools offer the ...</p>
Award Winners
World’s Best Subcustodians 2013: Country Winners
<p>COUNTRY WINNERS Argentina Citi Armenia Ameriabank Australia HSBC Austria UniCredit Bank Austria Bahrain HSBC Belgium KBC Brazil Itaú Unibanco Canada CIBC Mellon Chile Banco de Chile China Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Commercial Bank of China Colombia Citi Croatia ...</p>
Awards
World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2013: Regional Winners
By Anita Hawser and Paula L. Green NORTH AMERICA Citi In North America, Citi has closely aligned itself with government efforts to leverage supply chain finance as a means of funneling much-needed working capital to SMEs. It is a ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Global Equity Index % Change, 2003-2012
<p>Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Equity Indices measure the US dollar price change in the stock markets covered by the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) and the S&P Frontier Broad Market Index (BMI). The Global BMI consists of ...</p>
Features
Payment Instruments: Card Payments
<p>According to the Bank for International Settlements, card-based payment products are electronic money products that provide the customer with a portable, specialized computer device, typically an integrated circuit card containing a microprocessor chip. Data is from the Bank for International ...</p>