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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Commercial Paper Market Dries Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT The market for short-term corporate IOUs, or commercial paper, has continued to shrink in recent weeks amid the spreading credit crunch, putting more pressure on traditional bank credit lines. Commercial paper outstanding in the ...

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 ...

Country Report

Features : Balancing Act

COUNTRY REPORT / BRAZIL Buffeted by the shockwaves from the US subprime mortgage crisis, Brazil has to steer a steady course if it is to keep its economic development on track. Buffeted by the shockwaves from ...

Award Winners

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 ...

Banking

Features : Collateral Damage

FOCUS / TERRORISM FUNDING Legislation aimed at cracking down on funding for terrorists is having some damaging side effects for banks and businesses. Kochan: It may be a fallacy that banks can anticipate terrorist financing. Following the attacks ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : In For The Long Haul

ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...

Award Winners

Features : Worlds Best Banks

ANNUAL SURVEY / WORLD’S BEST BANKS At a time when the world economic outlook is more uncertain than it has been in years, the banking industry finds itself at the vortex of a financial market storm that originated in subprime ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Brazilian Companies Lead Rush By Latin American Issuers To Tap Us Private-placement Market

Corporate financing news / global equity/drs Latin American equity capital markets had their biggest month ever in July, with $9.6 billion in proceeds from 23 issues, an increase of 48% from the previous record of $6.5 billion set ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Closes For Repricing

Corporate debt / corporate financing news The high-yield bond market in the United States all but shut down for new issues in July, as subprime mortgage losses led to a repricing of corporate credit risk and an end ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Horror Story With A Happy Ending

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE The recent downturn in the credit cycle has hit media industry restructuring, but Hollywood is attracting investors for new film financing deals. The boom in leveraged buyouts in the media industry hit a brick ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Hot Topic Or Hot Air?

INSIGHT / CARBON OFFSETTING Carbon emissions reduction is an increasingly important aspect of any global corporation’s operations. But working on reductions and investing wisely in offset projects is a critical element of that. Companies are increasingly looking to ...