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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: African stepping up

AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development is still constrained by a historic dearth of infrastructure investment. Private sector investors might be able to provide the hitherto missing link.       Controversial development: Dams such as the Kariba on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Infosys Climbs Up The Value Chain

COMPANY TO WATCH: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES/INDIA Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest IT services provider, announced a $755 million cash deal to buy UK-based Axon, which advises companies on installing business software created by SAP of Germany. If the transaction is completed, it ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Growing pains

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat?   Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Risky Business

FOCUS / ECONOMIC NATIONALISM As if the global credit squeeze were not enough, multinationals, particularly in the commodities industries, are also facing a surge in resource nationalism.   Horne: Companies are investing in riskier areas. Fueled in part by soaring ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Green Finance

GREEN FINANCE   Despite the drumbeat of headlines about the troubled banking and finance industries, one area is coming up green.       With global financial markets languishing in the doldrums, “green financing” is emerging as a key lever ...

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 : Communist Parties Give Economic Reforms A Boost

INDIA     Manmohan Singh: Has more scope to enact reforms. India’s ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by Manmohan Singh, survived a vote of no confidence in late July after the three communist parties in parliament said ...

Banking

Features : Island Life

CARIBBEAN FINANCE CENTERS Recent changes are helping the venerable finance centers of the Caribbean stave off increasingly intense international competition.             Partly in response to the US-led assault on their opaque banking systems and propensity ...

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 ...
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