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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 ...
AWARDS CEREMONY : LOCATION BEIJING China’s Bright Lights Global Finance hosted its annual Stars of China awards ceremony and dinner in Beijing in November. Banks and companies were honored for their outstanding performance over the past year. ...

Award Ceremonies and Events

Stars of China Awards Ceremony

AWARDS CEREMONY : LOCATION BEIJING China’s Bright Lights Global Finance hosted its annual Stars of China awards ceremony and dinner in Beijing in November. Banks and companies were honored for their outstanding performance over the past year. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Asian Companies Ripe For Investment

MILESTONES: SINGAPORE / INDONESIA By Gordon Platt After portfolio managers removed tens of billions of dollars from Asian equity markets during the sell-off in early autumn, corporate valuations are now highly attractive in some industries and sectors. Photo ...

Editor's Letter

Between Aid And Contagion

Who would have predicted that the Europeans would try to get financial support from China, Portugal would try to get investment from Brazil, French banks could try for funding from Russia, or that the US administration would criticize the “lack of action” in Europe as a way to divert attention from its own problems?

Award Winners

Biggest Emerging Markets Banks 2011

CHINA’S BIG FOOTPRINT By Andrew Cunningham Global Finance presents its annual listing of the biggest banks in the emerging markets. When it comes to asset size, the dominance of Chinese banks in emerging markets is hard to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Ranbaxy Laboratories / India

INDIAN DRUG MAKER SEEKS TO CASH IN ON GENERIC LIPITOR By Gordon Platt Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s largest pharmaceuticals company, has secured a six-month exclusive right to sell a low-cost version of Lipitor, Pfizer’s popular anti-cholesterol drug, in the ...

Country Report

Country Report: Turkey

EVADING A HARD LANDING By Gordon Platt Turkey’s widening trade and current account deficits are making some investors nervous, but government officials are confident they can keep the fast-growing economy from overheating if they apply the proper mix of fiscal ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DR News: Unsponsored DRs Abound Amid Lack Of New Issues

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt The market for new sponsored depositary receipt programs for companies in emerging markets has dried up since the equity market turmoil in August, but there has continued to be a steady ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EM News: BRIC Exchanges Announce Alliance

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Stock exchanges in the BRIC countries, plus South Africa, plan to cross-list equity index derivatives as the first phase of a joint initiative announced at the annual meeting of the World ...

Banking

EM Regional Review: Africa

AT A CROSSROADS By Jonathan Gregson Africa is at the cusp of major change. Whether that change involves greater economic growth and an improved standard of living depends on both internal and external events over the next few years. ...
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