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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

On track: China's stimulus package will boost railroad investment China is pouring money into railroads and energy production as the implementation of the country’s 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package moves forward. Urban fixed asset investment grew by 26.5% ...

Banking

Features : A Bridge To Recovery

Infrastructure spending Policymakers are pouring money into infrastructure projects in an attempt to head off economic disaster. Cohen: When stability returns, infrastructure will be attractive. All aspects of infrastructure will be on the rise in 2009, as the United ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Revisiting Nafta

Regional report Calls to renegotiate Nafta are growing louder, and as the three member countries’ economic travails deepen, the arguments for a revision are gaining ground. The economic crisis that began in the United States has had a dramatic ...

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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008

REGIONAL WINNER Standard Bank COUNTRY WINNER Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote dIvoire Ecobank Ethiopia NIB International...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE BANKS – 2008

CATEGORY SUB-CATEGORY WINNER GLOBAL WINNER Deutsche Bank REGIONAL WINNER North America Citi Latin America Citi Western Europe Deutsche Bank Honorable...

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BEST INVESTMENT BANKS – 2008

New York, July 7, 2008 Global Finance announces its selection of the Worlds Best Investment Banks 2008 to be published...

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BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS – 2008

Global Finance magazine has released its sixth annual ranking of the Best Sub-Custodians. This exclusive survey will be published in...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDERS – 2008

CATEGORY SUB-CATEGORY WINNER REGIONAL WINNER Americas Citi Europe BNP Paribas CEE UniCredit Nordic Region SEB Middle East Arab Bank Asia...

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CHINA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008

City Commercial Ningbo City Commercial Bank Credit Card China Merchants Bank Mortgage Loans China Construction Bank (CCB) SME Lending, Domestic...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Bailouts Cushion Decline In 2008 Global Mergers

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The volume of worldwide mergers and acquisitions fell 30% last year compared with 2007, but the decline in announced deals would have been even larger without the government bailouts of financial institutions, which represented a ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan Gives Dollar Strong Start To 2009 On Hopes Us Will Recover First

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar rose in early January, as investors weighed the likely effects of president-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and as analysts said the United States could be the first major economy to recover from the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Instant Messaging Craze Sweeps China

COMPANY TO WATCH: TENCENT HOLDINGS/CHINA Instant messaging (IM) has become a cultural phenomenon in China. Tencent Holdings is a Hong Kong-listed company with the bulk of its assets in China, where its QQ brand controls 80% of the IM market. ...