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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Rising Costs Force Indian Airlines To Pursue Alliances

INDIA Kingfisher Airlines joins forces with Jet Airways in an effort to cut costs as losses force unprecedented cooperation. Steep losses are forcing a flurry of consolidation in India’s airline industry. With combined losses this year alone ...

Banking

Features : Banking On Innovation

BANKING ON INNOVATION SYSTEMIC RISK Businesses are finding imaginative ways to circumvent the credit crunch. The solutions they adopt now could have profound implications for their future operations. For months this year, pessimists had been predicting a global financial ...

News

Features : Roundtable: Custody & Investor Services

SAFE HARBOR CUSTODY & INVESTOR SERVICES Global custodians play a key role in helping their clients weather financial turmoil. Global Finance gathered a group of the industry’s leading players to discuss the implications of—and opportunities presented by—recent events. White: ...

Award Winners

Features : World’s Best Derivatives Providers 2008

BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS 2008 Global Finance’s fifth annual awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers come against a backdrop of unprecedented change in financial markets. The long bull market came to an end last year. In its place ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Emerging Markets Face Savage Reversal Of Funds Flows

GLOBAL Capon: Asia's funds are drying up fast. The credit crunch has shattered a lot of illusions about the soundness of the global financial system, and another theory that has been challenged is that of “decoupling,” ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : European Mergers Gain With Pair Of Big Deals

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Europe passed the United States in corporate dealmaking in August thanks to two large transactions, including a spin-off and a hostile bid. The total of US mergers and acquisitions for the year to date of $849 billion, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Stronger Dollar Will Take Bite Out Of Overseas Earnings For Us-based Multinationals

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Get ready for some unpleasant surprises on the earnings front as a result of the dollar’s sudden recovery from a record low of $1.60 against the euro in mid-July. By early last month the euro ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: African stepping up

AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development is still constrained by a historic dearth of infrastructure investment. Private sector investors might be able to provide the hitherto missing link. Controversial development: Dams such as the Kariba on ...

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

Features : Growing pains

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat? Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : Global Accounting Standard Moves Closer

UNITED STATES Accounting by numbers: Proponents of global standards say they reduce costs. More than 100 of the largest US public companies could be using international accounting standards by the end of next year ...

News

Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan's pro-business president, Ilham Aliyev. The regulatory reform movement that has been thriving in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years is spreading eastward into Central Asia, with Azerbaijan taking the title of the world’s ...