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Newsmakers: The First Female President Set To Tighten Costa Rica/China Ties

Costa Rica By Dan Keeler All smiles: Chinchilla celebrates with supporters Laura Chinchilla, a former vice president and justice minister, is set to become Costa Rica's first female president after winning the country's early February election with a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Poor Gain Better Access To Financial Services

MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Antonio Guerrero Despite the fact that 60% of the world's economies posted a drop in real per capita income last year, access to formal financial services in developing countries grew. According to "Financial Access 2010," ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Rating Upgrade Opens Door To Costa Rica Bond Issue

NEWSMAKERS: COSTA RICA By Dan Keeler With the ink still wet on a Moody's rating upgrade from Ba1 to Baa3 investment grade, Costa Rica has revealed it is considering a bond issue in the near future. José Rossi, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Rusal Plans To Create DR Program in Russia

EMERGING MARKET INVESTORS: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Rusal, the world's largest producer of aluminum, plans to create a Russian depositary receipt (RDR) program on the Micex Stock Exchange and the Russian Trading System by the end of ...

Banking

Shifting Sands

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: MIDDLE EAST By Jonathan Gregson Many banks in the Middle East are still suffering the after-effects of the global financial crisis. Over the past decade the Middle East's banking sector has become ...

Banking

SIBOS: Asian Transaction Banking

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT By Denise Bedell Corporates are demanding increasingly sophisticated cash and trade solutions within Asia. Those banks that want to stay competitive must step up their game. Asia is a key growth area for transaction banking ...

Banking

Slow Recovery

EM REGIONAL BANKING FOCUS: CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE By Jonathan Gregson Hit hard during the financial crisis, Central and Eastern Europe's banking sector is still fragile and vulnerable to external shocks. During the boom times of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cement Maker Bags Contracts in LatAm

Emerging Markets Investor: Company To Watch By Gordon Platt Cementos Argos, the leader in the Colombian cement industry, with a 51% market share, is benefiting from growing construction activity in its home market and a healthy backlog of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Free-Float Rules Could Boost Indian DRs

Emerging Markets Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt India’s finance ministry issued neles in June requiring listed companies to have a public float of at least 25% of their shares. The new rules could prompt a rush of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Local Government Debt Shadows China

Emerging Markets Investor: News By Gordon Platt Julian Thompson, portfolio manager at Threadneedle Emerging Markets Equity Fund, says he expects China’s economic growth to slow and sees much more opportunity in other parts of the world. Much of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM: Braced For Turbulence

FX EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT Currency volatility is increasing, and companies are finding that more than ever they need to have an effective FX hedging strategy in place. By Anita Hawser Frank Pirozzi is the assistant treasurer at Red ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trading Up

ANALYSIS — ASIA'S EXPORTERS By Thomas Clouse Asia’s exporters are all benefiting as China’s manufacturers begin to move up the value chain. The Asian economic miracle is hardly a new story, but every once in a while, ...