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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Russia, Mexico Depositary Receipts

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, raised $5 billion in a secondary share sale in London and Moscow in September that had been delayed for more than a year because of unfavorable ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX Supplement: The Renminbi As A Reserve Currency

THE RENMINBI GOES GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Pressure from BRIC countries for a new international reserve currency to replace the dollar is growing. China, the world’s leading trading nation, would like to reap some of the benefits ...

Banking

Islamic Finance Goes Global

COMING OF AGE By Anit a Hawser Islamic finance is starting to spread within the countries of North Africa with high Muslim concentrations. Any discussion of Islamic finance usually includes Islamic financial hubs such as Malaysia or ...

Banking

Newsmaker: Turkey Transitions To Investment Grade

NEWSMAKERS: TURKEY By Dan Keeler Turkey’s authorities are concerned that the economic boost provided by an upgrade to investment grade by Fitch Ratings could trigger some unwelcome side effects. Erdem Baç says he can keep inflation in check ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Turkey: Still An Investment Darling

TURKISH DELIGHT By Justin Keay Turkey's economy is one of the few in Europe experiencing positive growth, but as the pace of economic reform slows and a rising current-account deficit looms, pundits are beginning to ask, has complacency ...

Banking

Central Banker Report Cards 2012: Europe

By Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero and Anita Hawser EUROPE BELARUS Nadezhda Ermakova Grade: C Ermakova assumed the chairmanship of the central bank in August 2011 under somewhat controversial circumstances. Her predecessor, Petr Prokopovich, retired against a backdrop of spiraling inflation ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: Emerging Corporate Debt Grows

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Global investors are creeping further out on thin ice to capture the higher yields available on bonds issued by companies in emerging markets (EM). Analysts caution that many of the ...

Banking

World’s Best Banks 2012: Global Winners

By Gordon Platt, Thomas Clouse, Jonathan Gregson & Antonio Guerrero Global Winners BEST CORPORATE BANK Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany, is a leading global corporate and investment bank and has long been the top foreign exchange ...

Award Winners

Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners

By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA FINANCIAL ADVISER: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group MUFG led the $585 million nonrecourse financing of the Wind Energy Transmission Texas project, and structured a $387 million construction loan for the Lone Star Transmission project, a 329-mile transmission ...

Award Winners

Turkey

DRs: Russia, Mexico Depositary Receipts

FX Supplement: The Renminbi As A Reserve Currency

Islamic Finance Goes Global

Newsmaker: Turkey Transitions To Investment Grade

Turkey: Still An Investment Darling

Central Banker Report Cards 2012: Europe

Debt: Emerging Corporate Debt Grows

World’s Best Banks 2012: Global Winners

Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners

WORLD’S TOP CENTRAL BANKERS 2012

WORLD’S BEST CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL INTERNET BANKS IN EUROPE 2012

WORLD’S BEST CONSUMER INTERNET BANKS IN EUROPE 2012