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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Asia

ASIA ACTS AMID ADVERSITY By Thomas Clouse The turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa and the devastating consequences of the early March earthquake in Japan are dragging heavily on Asia’s export-led, resource-intensive economic recovery. When ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Take Cover

INSURANCE: POLITICAL RISK COVER By Anita Hawser Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have brought political risk into sharp focus for multinationals in the region and beyond. It was the morning after the Japanese ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Best Legal Advisers

Best Legal Advisers Global Skadden Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, which operates under the brand name Skadden, was the number-one legal adviser on global mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010, according to Thomson Reuters. Skadden advised on 227 deals ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Country Winners

Country Winners North America Canada Scotia Capital Scotia Capital is the global corporate and investment banking and capital markets arm of Scotiabank, the most international bank in Canada. Scotia Capital handled the three largest debt financings in Canada in 2010, ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Global Winners

Global Winners Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s broad-based strength in equity underwriting and financial advisory work on mergers and acquisitions worldwide is unparalleled. The investment bank’s only relative weakness is in the fixed-income area, which it is working ...

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Best Investment Banks 2011: Regional Winners

Regional Winners North America Best Investment Bank Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s strengths in the equity and M&A; advisory businesses make it the clear leader in North American investment banking. Not only did it lead General Motors’ $18.1 billion initial public ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Fatima Fertilizer

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: COMPANY TO WATCH By Anita Hawser Headquartered in Lahore, Fatima Fertilizer, which provides nitric acid, ammonia and other fertilizer and chemicals products, was born out of the Pakistan government’s 2001 Fertilizer Policy, which aims to ...

Editor's Letter

Events And Interdependence

The events that have occurred during the past few weeks demonstrated once again the interdependence between world economies and world markets...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Going Under

COVER STORY: THE NEW OIL SHOCK By Michael Shari Triggered by street battles in OPEC member states and exacerbated by news of radiation leaking from Japanese nuclear reactors, the oil shock threatens to derail the world’s economic recovery. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Taiwan Roundtable: Economy & Business

TAIWAN: CHARTING A STEADY COURSE Moderated by Joseph Giarraputo At a roundtable in Taipei, Global Finance brought together key figures in Taiwan’s banking and finance industry to discuss the prospects for one of Asia’s most successful export-driven economies. Tzung-Ta ...

News

UK/US: Derivatives Traders Assess New Regs

MILESTONES: UNITED KINGDOM / UNITED STATES By Anita Hawser Banks are scrambling to launch electronic trading platforms for derivatives transactions such as credit default swaps (CDSs) in an attempt to get ahead of planned regulatory changes aimed at ...

News

US: Nuclear Energy Central To Policy

MILESTONES: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Panic-stricken residents of Western US states cleared pharmacy shelves of potassium iodide tablets last month, amid fears that radiation from Japan’s nuclear crisis could reach the West Coast. Obama: No plans ...