Banking
Whats Next For Kuwaiti Banks?
SPECIAL REPORT By Andrew Cunningham Kuwaiti banks are in good health. Capital levels are high, nonperforming loans low and declining,...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ukraines Yanukovych Makes a Deal With the Devil He Knows
Yanukovych: Taking the soft option ( Roland Goodman ) The Ukraine in December secured a $15 billion bailout from Russia,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Mexico Greases the Skids for Foreign Oil Companies
For Pemex, a crude awakening A steady, year-long stream of institutional and economic reforms in Mexico is about to end...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Ryanairs OLeary vs. EasyJets McCall: No contest
Ryanair: Attitude Adjustment When EasyJet in November reported a pre-tax profit of 478 million (US$785 million) for fiscal 2013a 51%...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Why IBM Finds Itself in an Indian Bleak House
IBM in India: Kind of Blue (Bangalore photo: Vinoo202) IBM’s ongoing tussle with Indian authorities shows once again how complicated...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
WTO ‘Historic’ Trade Agreement: Is This Anything?
Azevdo: Organization man Remember the days when accession to the World Trade Organization was seen as an admittance ticket into...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Argentina: Location, Location, Location
Mapping out the history of Argentina (foto: Robles Pepe) Think you know what turned Argentina from an early 20 th...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Eike Batista: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Batista: An SOS at OSX (Photo:Juliana Coutinho) When they fall, they fall hard. The past few months have brought only...
Banking
Asian Trade: Mind the Gap
Is Basel III to blame for the $425 billion shortfall in trade finance in developing Asia? Some observers think so, but others say trade finance needs to go back to basics.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
DRs: Return On Receipts
The major emerging markets are attracting renewed interest from investors. The uptick comes at a time when companies from these fast-developing countries need capital to grow and are turning to depositary receipts to tap into the deeper capital markets in the developed world.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Frontier Markets: Gold Rush In Myanmar?
Myanmar may be the last frontier market in Asia, with plenty of natural resources and a government targeting growth of over 7.5% for the next five years. Still, while investors remain cautiously optimistic,the economic transition will need to be delicately handled.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Deflation Woes Deflate the Euro
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS The outlook for the euro has worsened, following a slowdown in inflation in the eurozone to the lowest level in nearly four years. The European Central Bank cut its benchmark rate to a record low of ...