Emerging & Frontier Markets
Stars of China Awards Ceremony 2011
DATE: NOVEMBER 15, 2011 LOCATION: RITZ CARLTON, BEIJING Global Finance hosted its annual Stars of China awards ceremony and dinner...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Company To Watch: KGHM POLSKA MIEDŹ / Poland
POLISH COPPER, SILVER MINER ROLLS WITH THE PUNCHES By Gordon Platt After KGHM Polska Mied reported that its third-quarter 2011 profits had tripled from the same period a year earlier, the Polish government immediately announced a significant increase in ...
Banking
Country Report: Kuwait
LONG-TERM VISION By Justin Keay Kuwait’s development in recent years has been driven by the state, with little FDI. However, upcoming elections promise a new government that could improve the business climate for foreign investors. When protesters ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Deep Freeze On IMF Lending To Ukraine
MILESTONES: UKRAINE By Kim Iskyan The IMF’s $15 billion loan program to Ukraine looks increasingly likely to be suspended at least until parliamentary elections in October 2012, following an early November visit by the IMF that ended without recommending the resumption ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
DR News: Unsponsored ADR Market To Slow
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt New unsponsored American depositary receipt (ADR) program creation is likely to slow down in the short to medium term, according to a report by Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM News: Mexican Exchange Woos High-Frequency Traders
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores exchange in Mexico City says it will introduce faster trading technology by the middle of 2012 in an effort to attract more high-frequency traders. BMV says ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Environmental Risk Insurance
ENVIRONMENTAL INSURANCE: GLOBAL EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT By Anita Hawser Environmental risk insurers are offering more sophisticated solutions and a broader range of coverage amounts. A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Moerdijk, Netherlands, in January 2011. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Lingering Risks
Europe may be the center of attention at the start of the new year, but it is certainly not the only area of the world that worries economists and policymakers...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Resource-Rich Myanmar Open For Investment
MILESTONES: MYANMAR By Thomas Clouse Preparing to chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2014, Myanmar is also opening its doors to foreign investment. A new dawn breaks in Myanmar, which is open for business Leaders from ASEAN’s ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Sector Report: Real Estate Finance
REAL ESTATE FINANCING: NEW AVENUES By Vanessa Drucker Real estate projects are getting capital injections from new and diverse sources as traditional bank lending dries up. Banks around the world have become skittish about lending. Although central ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Seeking Alternatives
COVER STORY: ALTERNATIVE FINANCING By Laurence Neville Small and medium-size companies are vital to economic growth and critical to corporate supply chains. Yet traditional lending is virtually closed to SMEs in most markets—certainly in developed markets of the West. ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Special Report: Infrastructure Finance
NEW HORIZONS By Solomon Teague Regulation is making it harder for banks to lend to infrastructure projects. New types and sources of funding will be needed to handle a wave of infrastructure development now under way—particularly in the ...