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Milestones : M&A Uptick Becomes A Frenzy
GLOBAL Its official: Merger madness is back. Preliminary figures for the first quarter of 2004 indicate that this is already...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : M&A Premiums Could Rise As Banks Fight for Survival
THE AMERICAS The US banking landscape has changed significantly since last October, when Bank of America agreed to merge with...
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Cover Story : Technology Rebounds
After a tough three-plus-year run, technology vendors, buyers, bankers, investors and venture capitalists are daring to ask the forbidden question:...
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Features : Lease Extension
Following a few years of depressed activity, the asset finance market is poised for recovery in 2004. How strong that...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar’s Rout Continues As Buyers Go on Strike
THE AMERICAS The US dollar gets no respect in the foreign exchange market these days, as traders hang around and...
Special Section
Features : When Doing The Right Thing Provides A Pay-off
The corporate world is still searching for definitive proof that corporate responsibility paysand now the evidence is piling up. For...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Global Briefing
Deal Flow Picks Up in a Market Well on the Road to Recovery Global Finance Award Winners Forecast a Continued...
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Milestones : Bankers Add Uncertainty To Argentina Debt Restructuring
ARGENTINA There was a time when investment banks lined up to participate in emerging market debt restructurings that gained them...
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Milestones : Pfandbrief To Be Strengthened By Pending Legal Changes
GERMANY Moodys Investors Service has updated its rating methodology of the Pfandbrief in anticipation of amendments to the German Mortgage...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Canada’s Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS THE AMERICAS Canadas Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial The theory that bigger is better in financial services...
Banking
Cover Story : The Best Companies In Latin America
ANNUAL SURVEY AIRLINES LanChile Executive Vice President and CEO: Enrique Cueto Plaza LanChile’s operational efficiency, passenger loyalty and steady revenue growth in both its cargo and its passenger business segments ...
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Features : Total Rebuild: Reconstructing Iraq’s Banking System Starts from Scratch
Before Iraqs economy can even begin to recover from the war, its banking system The ruins in Baghdad of the...