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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Horror Story With A Happy Ending

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE The recent downturn in the credit cycle has hit media industry restructuring, but Hollywood is attracting investors for new film financing deals. The boom in leveraged buyouts in the media industry hit a brick ...

Banking

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

JAPAN Toyota: Top holding in new ETF. Tokyo-based Daiwa Asset Management will create an exchange-traded fund based on the newly formed FTSE Shariah Japan 100 index. The ETF, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Guide 2007 : Who’s Who

“WHO’S WHO” IN TREASURY AND CASH MANAGEMENT TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT 2007 Anne Boden Head, Transaction Banking, Europe ABN AMRO Anne Boden manages ABN AMRO Transaction Banking across Europe. She is also responsible for preparing it for future ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Telecom Places $1 Billion Order

Company to watch: china mobile/china Hong Kong-based China Mobile is the largest mobile telecom services provider in China, with more than 300 million subscribers and a market share of 67.5%. In June the company placed a $1 billion ...

News

Milestones : London Takes The Lead For Commerce

Global London: The "epicenter of world commerce" London is perhaps best known for major tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and Madame Tussaud’s, but now it has a new moniker as the epicenter of commerce globally, ...

Banking

Regional Report GCC : Economic Boom Won’t Quit

<p>Regional Report / Gcc High oil prices keep the ball rolling, as the Gulf region’s economic growth momentum carries it through a rough patch in the stock markets. Kingdom Tower Riyadh: As capital spending rises, ...</p>

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Market Resumes Frenzied Growth

CHINA Eureka: New oil and gas deposits in China China’s stock market is again breaking records, with the Shanghai Composite Index surging past the 4,000-point milestone for the first time on May 9. Stock fluctuations early this year ...

Award Winners

Features : Best Investment Banks 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / INVESTMENT BANKS The continuing frenzy of global M&A; and debt and equity issuance shows no sign of abating—and investment banks are reaping the benefits. Records fell across the board in 2006 for worldwide debt ...

Banking

Features : On A Roll

20TH ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHT / INVESTMENT BANKING Investment bankers are riding a wave of profits in an expanding universe for their services. Ivanov: There is no limit to growth Year after year the world’s investment banks have been turning ...

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...

News

Features : Money Games

TRENDS / VIRTUAL CURRENCIES As virtual communities come of age, the corporate world is just beginning to grasp the potential...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : New Adr Trading Venue Means Less Onerous Reporting Requirements

DR NEWS Pink Sheets, a company that provides services for the US over-the-counter securities markets, introduced an alternative trading system...