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Regulars : EM Roundup Middle East

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US-based private equity firm, received a license to operate from the Dubai International Financial Center. By Gordon Platt The building in which the firm, whose 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco was chronicled in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup Russia

Amid expectations that the Russian economy had hit bottom, and despite a solid bounce in commodity prices since the beginning of the year, bad news continued to pile up. By Kim Iskyan Industrial production shrank by 17% in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : India’s consumers watching prices

COMPANY TO WATCH: HINDUSTAN UNILEVER/INDIA BY GP Mumbai-based Hindustan Unilever (HUL) sells soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos to more than 700 million Indian consumers, reaching two out of every three of the country’s inhabitants. As India’s largest consumer ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Milestones : Latin American

Latin American markets are feeling the global financial pinch, and ratings agencies are taking notice, with downgrades soon to follow. By Antonio Guerrero Standard & Poor’s downgraded El Salvador from BB+ to BB last month, and it seems ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Newsmakers : India

In the past decade, India and China have been mentioned in the same breath when discussing the coming giants of the world economy. By Laurence Neville In truth, India has never been in China’s league when it comes ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Newsmakers : Panama

The election of a pro-business leader in Panama now makes president-elect Ricardo Martinelli a member of the somewhat lonely club of Latin American right-wing leaders, in which the only other member is Colombian president Alvaro Uribe. By Antonio Guerrero ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Private equity funds bullish

NEWS BY GORDON PLATT Emerging market private equity funds raised a record $66.5 billion in 2008, and most plan to commit additional capital to new fund managers and additional countries in the next two years, according to the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Corporate Finance : Brazil’s appetite for power grows

Brazil needs to boost its electricity-generating capacity by 50% in the next 10 years to keep pace with growing demand for power, according to the country’s energy minister, Edison Lobão. Electrobrás, the state-controlled power holding group, is building an integrated ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinese online gaming firm raises cash in real world

Changyou.com is an online game developer and operator based in China that says it is committed to providing high-quality entertainment and virtual communities, and investors clearly want to play along. The company raised $128 million of real money last month ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP Africa

South Africa’s Standard Bank, Africa’s largest lender by assets, has become the first international financial institution to join the IFC’s $5 billion global trade liquidity program. The program aims to extend loans to regional banks for on-lending to importers and ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP China

China’s foreign exchange reserves, the largest in the world, grew at the lowest rate in eight years in the first quarter as export markets cooled and foreign capital inflows slowed. The reserves increased by $7.7 billion to $1.95 trillion, representing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP India

Just three months after the management of Satyam Computers, India’s fourth-largest software company, confessed to accounting fraud, the company was acquired by Tech Mahindra, another Indian software company. Tech Mahindra, which is partly owned by British Telecom, prevailed in the ...