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Banking

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

China International and domestic banks are spreading the net ever wider in their efforts to bring financial services to China’s increasingly wealthy population. China has outdone itself. The country’s economy grew by 11.5% in the first three ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Dr News Beijing-based Baidu.com, China’s leading Internet search provider, was the most actively traded depositary receipt in the world last year, according to The Bank of New York Mellon’s annual year-end report on the DR industry. In ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Frontier Markets Draw Value Hunters

News The lure of potentially high returns at lower prices than the big emerging markets is attracting value-seeking institutional investors to smaller “frontier” markets such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Angola and Mongolia. “To me, China and Hong Kong are expensive, but ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Securities Markets Become More Open

China Morgan Stanley: Subprime losses have been plugged by China Investment Corp. China will allow foreign brokerage firms to play stronger roles in the country’s securities markets, according to new guidelines that took effect ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Miners Going Major

ANALYSIS - MINING The world’s biggest mining companies look set to continue growing sharply as competition for resources continues to intensify. In the closing months of 2007, as investors fled equities and piled into commodities like gold ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Joining The Chain Gang

CORPORATE TOOLBOX At the Sibos international banking conference in Atlanta in 2004, David Taggart, the treasurer of one of the world's most recognizable brand names, Coca-Cola, made a direct plea to the banks to deliver greater efficiencies to corporates' supply ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Chinas Year Of Rat Fraught With Risk

China Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, economists are ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Greenback’s Decline Prompts Talk Of Central Bank Reserve Diversification And Ending Pegs To Dollar

CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS The shifting sands in the foreign exchange market in 2007 undermined the dollar to the extent that China openly weighed what its state media refer to as the “nuclear option” of dropping its vast holdings ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Mining Industry Offers Rich Vein For Mergers

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS More mergers in the mining industry are likely in 2008, analysts say, including potentially some of the biggest M&A; deals ever. Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton in November announced plans to launch an unsolicited tender offer to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance :Investors Climb Aboard China Railway Ipo

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS When state-owned China Railway, the world’s third-biggest construction company, offered $3 billion worth of shares for sale in its initial public offering in Shanghai last month, it attracted more than $450 billion in subscriptions. Clearly, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Asia’s most dynamic economies are amassing huge cash fortunes that they can then wield to increase their power around the world. Will 2008 be the year when we t ruly see the balance of global power shift to the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s letter : Mature, but not grown up

In our cover story this month, we investigate the idea that this could be Asias big breakout year...