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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : JPMorgan Adds Dr Staff In Latin America, Asia

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS JPMorgan has added new depositary receipt specialists in Argentina, Brazil and Singapore to assist the growing number of companies in these countries that want to have their equity traded on exchanges outside their home markets. The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : A Tale Of Two Industries: Energy, Finance Deals Proliferate For Very Different Reasons

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The volume of worldwide mergers and acquisitions totaled $730 billion in announced deals in the first quarter of 2008, a decline of 24.2% from the first quarter of 2007 and the lowest level for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : UAE Interior Contractor Selects Deutsche Bank

DR NEWS Depa, a Dubai-based provider of interior contracting services, selected Deutsche Bank as depositary institution for its global depositary receipt program. The company raised $432 million in the form of shares and GDRs, including the granting of an ...

Banking

Features : Sharing In Risk And Reward

SECTOR REPORT / ISLAMIC FINANCE The range of Islamic finance techniques is growing rapidly, but some are concerned that the most innovative products may be flouting shariah principles. While conventional financial markets are still reeling from the credit crunch, ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: Islamic Financial Institutions

ANNUAL SURVEY / ISLAMIC FINANCE Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems. Islamic finance is a system of ethical ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: India Vs China

THE ELEPHANT AND THE DRAGON Often uneasy neighbors and fierce competitors, India and China are finding ways to cooperate as their influence on the global economy grows. India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and China's premier Wen Jiao ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Latin American Currencies Heat Up

Foreign Exchange CURRENCY FORECASTS Latin America has experienced its share of currency crises in recent decades, but for the past few years the region’s currencies have continued to go from strength to ...

Banking

Cover Story : Secondary Development

Middle East As Islamic bonds become more popular, banks are creating a viable secondary market. Emirates Islamic Bank: Reaping the benefits of a surge in business. Asurge in the issuance of sukuk, or Islamic bonds, and growing demand from ...

Banking

Features : Opportunity Play

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS Sovereign wealth funds snap up bargains in one of the biggest financial industry land grabs in history. Bader Al Sa'ad, head of Kuwait's SWF, helped arrange a huge cash infusion for Citi. To say Citi and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Mergers & Acquisitions Cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for a record 47% of worldwide M&A; transactions in 2007, as global consolidation continued to drive merger activity in the materials, financials, and energy and power sectors, according to Thomson ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Drs Moving From Strength To Strength

Global Equity/drs Records galore toppled in the depositary receipt market in 2007, and DR liquidity, prices and capital raising likely will continue to be strong in 2008, as growth continues in the big emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Down But Not Out

MARKET FORCES / EQUITY DERIVATIVES Corporations might be wary of employing complex financial instruments in the wake of the credit crunch, but a closer look at the anatomy of the meltdown suggests equity derivatives still present some interesting opportunities. ...