Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
BEST TRADE FINANCE PROVIDERS – 2008
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Features: World’s best trade finance banks 2009
ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are enjoying rising demand for basic risk management services as world trade faces a difficult period. Global trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982, ...
Banking
Milestones : Asia’s 1 Billion Muslims Beckon Islamic Bankers
ASIA-PACIFIC Asia looks to cash in on its emerging Islamic financial center status. The Asia-Pacific region already accounts for 60% of the world’s Islamic banking assets and could be a center of growth for the shariah-compliant finance industry ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Emerging Markets Begin To Feel Pain
NEWS The world’s emerging equity markets had a gloomy summer, falling 19.4% in the three months through August, compared with a decline of 11.55% in developed equity markets in the same period, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Thai Ipos Spring To Life As China Offerings Dry Up
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China was the world’s biggest market for initial public offerings last year, but its IPO market has shriveled following a sharp drop in stock prices since last October, while the long-dormant market in Thailand is coming back ...
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 ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Editor’s letter : Mature, but not grown up
In our cover story this month, we investigate the idea that this could be Asias big breakout year...
Banking
Cover Story : 20 Years Of Turmoil And Progress
ANNIVERSARY TIMELINE OCTOBER 19, 1987: STOCK MARKET CRASH The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falls 508 points, or 22.6%, in the steepest decline since 1929. Portfolio insurance and computerized trading takes some of the blame for what ranks ...
Banking
Cover Story : Brave New World
A NEW DAWN “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t!” —William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I. From the ...
Banking
Features : Changing The Game
SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...
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 ...
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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007
ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...