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Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Regional Review: Introduction

FEAST AND FAMINE By Anita Hawser The emerging markets are affected to a greater or lesser degree by what is happening in the developed world. Those countries and regions that are most closely tied to the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EM Regional Review: Latin America

PREPARING FOR THE WORST By Antonio Guerrero Latin American countries are starting to build reserves and diversify economies to brace for a possible global downturn. The question is whether it will be enough to protect the export-driven ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity/DRs: Groupon Opens IPO Market

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The US market for initial public offerings sprang to life in November, following a two-month drought. The successful $700 million offering by Groupon, which was the largest IPO by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Europes Debt Plan Missing Detail

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Risk aversion appeared to be creeping back into the markets in early November, as the initial euphoria about the eurozone’s master plan to solve the debt crisis began to fade. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: US Shale-Gas Boom Attracts FDI

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Foreign buyers accounted for 76% of the total value of US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions in the third quarter of this year, with 22 deals valued at ...

Award Winners

Safest Emerging Markets Banks 2011

ASIAN DOMINANCE By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance ’s first annual ranking of the Top 50 Safest Banks in the Emerging Markets. The ranks of the safest banks in the emerging markets are dominated by Asia and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Shenzhen Promotes Itself As A High-Tech Hub, As China Beefs Up Antitrust Credentials

MILESTONES: CHINA By Matt Greco With an audience as full of Chinese citizens as of Americans, officials from the City of Shenzhen touted its appeal as a center for high-tech investment at a conference in New York City in ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The 10%+ Club

COVER STORY: THE 10% + CLUB By Laurence Neville Predicting what countries will be the next growth outperformers is tricky at best. Those firms that back the winners will undoubtedly profit, and the countries that make the ...

Award Winners

World’s BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2012

Global Finance names the World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2012 NEW YORK, November 21, 2011 Global Finance magazine has named...

Award Winners

50 BIGGEST BANKS IN EMERGING MARKETS 2011

Global Finance ranks the 50 Biggest Banks in Emerging Markets NEW YORK, November 7, 2011 Global Finance reveals its fourth...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Alfa / Mexico

ALFA GROUP GROWS THROUGH ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Monterrey-based Alfa, one of Mexico’s largest industrial groups, has four business lines, comprising petrochemicals, aluminum auto parts, processed food and telecommunications. Earlier this year it became the sole shareholder ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Infrastructure Needs Triple By 2030

MILESTONES: EMERGING MARKETS By Gordon Platt Demand for infrastructure in emerging markets will reach $1 trillion annually through 2030, triple the level of the previous two decades, with Asia accounting for the lion’s share, according to a study ...