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Banking

Emerging Markets : Banks Seek Growth After Profits Slide

BRAZIL Digging in: Brazilian miner Vale is investing heavily. After several years of steady profit growth, Brazil’s banking sector reported a slowdown in second-quarter 2008. Bradesco, Brazil’s largest non-state bank by assets, posted a 13% drop in second-quarter ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China In Olympian Bid For Global Respect

China opened the 29th Olympic Summer Games in Beijing on August 8 with a ceremony incorporating 15,000 performers and 29,000 fireworks shells and attended by US president George Bush, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and other world leaders. China spent a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Dongfeng Motor

CHINA’S AUTO MARKET REMAINS IN FAST LANE COMPANY TO WATCH China’s love affair with the automobile shows no sign of cooling. The world’s most populous country is also the fastest-growing new-car market, with sales increasing at a rate ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Risky Business

CORPORATE TOOLBOX / POLITICAL RISK In recent years, political risks facing multinationals have grown more significant. Corporations are far from blameless in creating that risk, though. Heightened tensions: Multinationals in countries such as Venezuela face growing risks. With ...

Award Winners

Features : World’s Best Investment Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY The past 12 months have been some of the most difficult ever for investment banks, but many institutions continue to provide outstanding services to their clients. Investment banks are still writing ...

News

Newsmakers : Economic Pain Deepens As American Shoppers Cut Back

UNITED STATES Kicking the habit: Shoppers slash spending. Will declining gasoline prices encourage American consumers to pile into the family automobile and head out to the mall? Retailers hope so, but signs were not encouraging as the key ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide : “Who’s Who” In Treasury And Cash Management

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT 2008 Robert Allen Group Treasurer British American Tobacco Robert Allen, appointed group treasurer effective this past June, replaces David Swann, who has now retired. Based in London, Allen works with a team of 20 professionals ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Here’s your converted text: Telecom Deal Helps Banks Clear Lbo Loan Backlog

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The agreement announced last month by Verizon Wireless to buy rural cell phone service provider Alltel for $5.9 billion in cash and $22.2 billion in debt did more than create the biggest mobile-phone company ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : JPMorgan Adds Dr Staff In Latin America, Asia

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS JPMorgan has added new depositary receipt specialists in Argentina, Brazil and Singapore to assist the growing number of companies in these countries that want to have their equity traded on exchanges outside their home markets. The ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor : Clean-coal Firm Raises $1.3 Billion

COMPANY TO WATCH: PT ADARO ENERGY/INDONESIA Jakarta-based PT Adaro Energy, the holding company of Indonesia’s second-largest coal producer, raised $1.32 billion in the country’s biggest initial public offering ever by selling 34.8% of its share capital. PT Danatama ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Taiwan And China Strengthen Ties

CHINA Fuel up: China's rising inflation rate is causing official concern. China and Taiwan agreed in June to open representative offices in each other’s capitals to promote better communication between ...

Country Report

Features: A Giant Country With Giant Challenges

A GIANT COUNTRY WITH GIANT CHALLENGES COUNTRY REPORT / KAZAKHSTAN Vast hydrocarbon reserves and financial regulators known for their toughness are helping Kazakhstan ride out an abrupt economic slowdown and a housing crunch. Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev at the opening ...