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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Europe Widens Lead Over Us In Mergers

Mergers & acquisitions Milan-based UniCredito Italiano’s agreement to merge with Rome-based bank Capitalia in a stock-swap transaction valued at $29.5 billion has widened Europe’s lead over the United States in announced M&A; activity so far this year. Thanks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions With Trading Partners Reach New Low

Russia Russia's Vladimir Putin at the recent G-8 summit Relations between Russia and the West plunged to fresh post-Cold War lows, as the planned US missile shield in the Czech Republic, the investigation of the death of Alexander ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Ice Begins Clearing Credit Default Swaps As Counterparty Risk Hits Record High

CORPORATE DEBT The first central counterparty clearinghouse for credit default swaps (CDS) began operating on March 9, the same day...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Low For Dollar Not End Of Its Descent

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar fell to a record low against the euro last month and a 25-year low against the British pound following news that US economic growth in the first quarter was the weakest in four years. ...

Technology

Cover Story : Stepping Up

GOING GLOBAL Lacking the financial clout of multinationals or small enterprises’ easy access to government grants, mid-size companies are riding the wave of new technologies and today’s more liberal trading and regulatory schemes to successfully break into foreign ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Singapore Exchange Racks Up Global Listings

DR NEWS Uttam Galva Steels, based in Khopoli in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, has become the first Indian...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Corporate Financing Focus

Foreign Exchange Increased volatility in exchange rates spurs adoption of best practices in currency-risk management Walldorf, Germany-based SAP, a leading...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Porsche Pursuing Vw In Low Gear

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS In the surreal world of corporate takeovers in Germany, pricey sports car maker Porsche has launched a...

News

Milestones : Exchange Chalks Up First Chinese Listing

GERMANY/CHINA Deutsche Brse Although shares in Chinese companies have been traded on the Brse before, this is the first time...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story : Corporate Social Responsibility

A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLES As corporate responsibility becomes a staple corporate tool, it is easier than ever for corporations to...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Breaking Out

FOCUS / INDIA INC. Indias biggest corporations are spreading their wings and becoming truly global organizations. Mittal Grandeur promises to...