Features
IMF Admits Greek Mistakes While Europe Sticks Its Head In The Sand
While the Greek economy remains too weak to meet the goals laid down in the current bailout package, a highly...
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Banking
Waiting For Superman: Raghuram Rajan And The Overblown Expectations For Central Bankers
Ever since the financial crisis, when political stalemate enveloped the planet and the fate of the global economy seemed to...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Asia Wakes Up To A New Dawn Of Supply Chain Financing
Asia is often portrayed as a land of milk and honey, where liquidity and capital flow freely, and high levels...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Dented, Not Doomed, By Fed Easing
If you attended to the teeth gnashing and handwringing following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it is considering a gradual...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Croatia Finally Joins The EU Fold
Croatia becomes 28th member of the EU In 2004, when nine former Communist countries joined the EU, there were widespread...
Features
Slowing Of QE Could Be Good News For Corporate Cash Management
After about six years of quantitative easing (QE) by the US Federal Reserve System the European Central Bank (ECB) and...
Banking
Will Corporate Cost Of Capital Really Rise With Higher Bank Capital Requirements?
As night follows day, bankers warn that the macroeconomic sky will fall as a result of new rules that would...
Banking
Debt: 32-Year-Old Bond Rally Falters
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT ByGordon Platt US interest rates have been in a general declining trend since 1981, when...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil
BRAZILIAN PORTS OPEN TO PRIVATE INVESTORS By Antonio Guerrero The Dilma Rousseff administration signed into law new regulations that open the country’s ports to greater private-sector investments. Approved in June, the policies are expected to help attract ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Roundup: China
CHINESE SOLAR-PANEL MAKERS FACE TRADE TARIFFS IN EUROPE By Thomas Clouse Chinese companies face trade friction in Europe now that the European Commission has imposed tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The EU charges that Chinese companies are ...
Banking
Equity: Companies Raise More DR Capital
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt The pace of capital raising using depositary receipts has accelerated sharply from last year, and the pipeline of future issues is strong, DR bankers say. Much of the recent activity ...
Features
Frontier Markets Focus: Cambodia
<p><strong>THE CONTENDER</strong><br />
Cambodia is emerging as a key investment destination—and potential consumer market—for companies focused on Southeast Asia. After more than a decade of 6%-plus growth—with just one hiccup during the global crisis in 2009—this nation of 15 million people has begun attracting serious interest.</p>