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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Emerging Market Companies And Banks Pose Risks To Financial System With Global Borrowing Spree

Corporate financing news / corporate debt Corporations based in emerging market countries have increased their global borrowing substantially in recent years, putting themselves at risk to a sudden shift in investor sentiment and a turn in the global ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Europe Widens Lead Over Us In Mergers

Mergers & acquisitions Milan-based UniCredito Italiano’s agreement to merge with Rome-based bank Capitalia in a stock-swap transaction valued at $29.5 billion has widened Europe’s lead over the United States in announced M&A; activity so far this year. Thanks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Latin America There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions With Trading Partners Reach New Low

Russia Russia's Vladimir Putin at the recent G-8 summit Relations between Russia and the West plunged to fresh post-Cold War lows, as the planned US missile shield in the Czech Republic, the investigation of the death of Alexander ...

Award Winners

Features : An Industry In Flux

Hotels, airlines & airports Tightened budgets and new technology have triggered a wave of innovation in the business travel industry. Take-off: Business-only airlines such as Silverjet are hoping to change the face of corporate travel The business ...

Banking

Features : Change Agents

CUSTODY & INVESTORS’ SERVICES Over the past three decades, the global custody and investors’ services industry has facilitated some of the most dramatic and far-reaching changes in the global financial services landscape. More than 30 years ago Chase Manhattan bank ...

Banking

Regional Report GCC : Economic Boom Won’t Quit

<p>Regional Report / Gcc High oil prices keep the ball rolling, as the Gulf region’s economic growth momentum carries it through a rough patch in the stock markets. Kingdom Tower Riyadh: As capital spending rises, ...</p>

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Low For Dollar Not End Of Its Descent

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar fell to a record low against the euro last month and a 25-year low against the British pound following news that US economic growth in the first quarter was the weakest in four years. ...

Technology

Cover Story : Stepping Up

GOING GLOBAL Lacking the financial clout of multinationals or small enterprises’ easy access to government grants, mid-size companies are riding the wave of new technologies and today’s more liberal trading and regulatory schemes to successfully break into foreign ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Argentine Utility Lists On New York Stock Exchange

DR NEWS Edenor, a Buenos Aires-based electricity distributor, became the 12th Argentina-based company to trade on the New York Stock Exchange, following its initial public offering in the United States and Argentina. The company, also known as Distribution ...

Banking

Features : Big Banks Eye Micro Market

SECTOR REPORT / MICROFINANCE Some of the world’s biggest banks are taking an interest in lending to some of the world’s smallest potential customers. After her husband died, Adija Msw was left destitute with an extended family ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Credit Where It’s Due

CORPORATE TOOLBOX / CREDIT DERIVATIVES Corporates have largely ignored the rapidly growing credit derivatives market for years. But will it help or hinder them if global growth begins to slow? The credit derivatives market has been one of the greatest ...