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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The global credit crunch appears to be having a major impact on the size and financing of takeovers, where cash deals for much smaller targets are increasingly the rule. The biggest announced M&A; transaction worldwide in August ...

Country Report

Features : Aiming To Please

COUNTRY REPORT / PHILIPPINES Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases With the May general election safely behind it, the Philippine government hopes to use the next three years of relative political quietude ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Tycoon Justice: Hyundai Chairman “Too Valuable” To Idle In Jail

SOUTH KOREA Chung: Convicted but free to go. Chung Mong-koo, chairman of Hyundai Motor, is too important to South Korea’s economy to go to jail, despite being convicted of embezzlement and breach of trust, an appeals court ruled ...

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

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...

News

Cover Story : Rising Stars

EM SPOTLIGHT – ASIA Dream town: The futuristic city of Shanghai symbolizes Chinas economic resurgence Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,...

News

Editor’s Letter : Transfer Of Power

In this issue we look back over the past 20 years in the worlds emerging markets...

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

Features : The Bank of New York

GLOBAL CUSTODY BUYERS GUIDE Global Finance presents its annual sponsored guide to the leading providers in the global custody market....

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : The Tortilla Factor

Mexicos newly installed president faces a tough first year in office as he struggles to reconcile his promises with fiscal...

News

Milestones : Russia – Gazprom Wins Sakhalin-2 Skirmish

RUSSIA Sakhalin-2: Project is weighed down with a host of problems After a drawn-out scuffle, the story of Royal Dutch...

News

Features : Saudi Arabia Leads Region’s Project Financing Boom

REGIONAL FOCUS / MIDDLE EAST New refineries and petrochemical facilities will squeeze more value out of the countrys crude oil...