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MID YEAR SAFEST BANKS RANKINGS – 2009
RANKING BANK COUNTRY 1 KfW Germany 2 Caisse des Dpots et Consignations (CDC) France 3 Bank Nederlands Gemeenten (BNG) Netherlands...
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WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS – 2008
New York, 4 September 2008 Global Finance magazine has released its annual ranking of the Worlds Safest Banks, which will...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bailouts Cushion Decline In 2008 Global Mergers
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The volume of worldwide mergers and acquisitions fell 30% last year compared with 2007, but the decline in announced deals would have been even larger without the government bailouts of financial institutions, which represented a ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan Gives Dollar Strong Start To 2009 On Hopes Us Will Recover First
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar rose in early January, as investors weighed the likely effects of president-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan and as analysts said the United States could be the first major economy to recover from the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Volatility Boosts Trading But Shuts Out Ipos
GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Initial public offerings in the United States plunged 86% last year to the lowest level in 31 years, with only one IPO priced in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to Thomson Reuters. By comparison, 60 ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Cover Story : Fear Factor
DEFLATION US policymakers have already braced themselves for a bout of deflation, and many corporations are quaking at the prospect of price declines. Some are wondering, though, how bad can it really get? That the global economy, ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Features: Carbon trade up
MARKET REPORT CARBON TRADING Barack Obama’s support for carbon trading will help strengthen an already growing market. Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases Bolstered by Europe’s legislative advances to tackle climate ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Emerging Markets May Face Deeper Pain
GLOBAL IMF: Expects heavy demand for funds. In the most bearish research report on emerging markets seen by Global Finance since the credit crisis began, an RBC Capital research note published on January 15 claims that most major ...
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Newsmakers : In Obama America Trusts, At Least For The Next Months
UNITED STATES Barack Obama takes the oath of office during the inauguration ceremony President Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20 bordered on a coronation, but the rhetoric will have to be turned quickly into reality if the historic ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : 1,000 Unsponsored Adr Programs Created In Last Three Months, Often Without Consent Of Issuers
GLOBAL EQUITY /DRS More than 1,000 unsponsored American depositary receipt programs were created in the last three months of 2008, in many cases without the permission of the companies whose shares are being traded in the US over-the-counter ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Credit Market Enters Eye Of The Storm
CORPORATE DEBT A combination of heavy supply and rising defaults makes it difficult to forecast a bottom for the credit markets in 2009, analysts say. The new-issue market in US high-yield bonds remained frozen solid late last year, ...