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BEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2008
REGIONAL WINNER Standard Bank COUNTRY WINNER Angola BES Angola Botswana Standard Chartered Bank Botswana Cote dIvoire Ecobank Ethiopia NIB International...
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CHINA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008
City Commercial Ningbo City Commercial Bank Credit Card China Merchants Bank Mortgage Loans China Construction Bank (CCB) SME Lending, Domestic...
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RUSSIA’S BEST BANKS AND COMPANIES – 2008
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Emerging Markets : Brazilian Mall Operator Upgrades Restricted ADRs
DR NEWS Seeking to raise its profile with international investors, BRMalls, Brazil’s largest shopping mall operator, upgraded its restricted American depositary receipt program to a Level I facility sponsored by J.P. Morgan. Rio de Janeiro-based BRMalls offers an opportunity for ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Instant Messaging Craze Sweeps China
COMPANY TO WATCH: TENCENT HOLDINGS/CHINA Instant messaging (IM) has become a cultural phenomenon in China. Tencent Holdings is a Hong Kong-listed company with the bulk of its assets in China, where its QQ brand controls 80% of the IM market. ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Investors Return To Em Bond Funds
NEWS With US treasury bonds offering paltry rates of return, investors are taking a closer look at emerging market debt as a way to pick up an additional 600 basis points or more of yield. EM bond funds ...
Banking
Features : Back To Basics
SECTOR REPORT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS A series of disastrous investments in Western banks and mounting pressure to invest locally is prompting a sea change in sovereign wealth funds’ investment attitudes. Dickinson: Some SWFs are facing pressure to diversify their ...
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Features : Fuel For The Growth Engine Annual Report
STARS OF CHINA Over the past decade, China’s government has been working on an ambitious plan to improve the health, transparency and effectiveness of its country’s sprawling banking system. Weighed down with bad loans, mired in bureaucracy and often plagued ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Emerging Markets May Face Deeper Pain
GLOBAL IMF: Expects heavy demand for funds. In the most bearish research report on emerging markets seen by Global Finance since the credit crisis began, an RBC Capital research note published on January 15 claims that most major ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets : $2.9 Billion EM Fund Attracts Investors
NEWS Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, has successfully raised $2.9 billion for investment in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This is one of the largest dedicated EM private equity funds closed in 2008. The ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : ‘Bric’ Countries Represent Half Of New DrIssuers
DR NEWS Companies based in Brazil, Russia, India and China, known as the BRIC countries, accounted for 53% of new depositary receipt programs and 52% of capital raised in DR form in the first 11 months ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Banking Giants Push For Growth
BRAZIL Presidents Medvedev and Lula call for the first-ever BRIC summit. Eager to maintain its status as Latin America’s largest financial institution, Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest state-controlled bank, announced the acquisition of Nossa Caixa, a bank ...