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Special Report: Afghanistan

A LETTER FROM KABUL By Valentina Pasquali The sense of anticipation is mounting in the Afghan capital of Kabul as the country gears up for a crucial double transition to take place in 2014. It is the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company to Watch: Mr Price / South Africa

RETAILER EXPANDS IN NIGERIA By Gordon Platt Mr Price Group has developed a successful retail formula in South Africa that could work well in markets across Africa. The majority of Mr Price’s 1000-plus stores are in South Africa, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: EP Energy Issues Debt For Buyout

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Houston pipeline company EP Energy sold $2.75 billion of debt in the high-yield private placement market to fund its buyout by a group of private equity firms led by Apollo Global ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: DR Capital Raising Falls Sharply

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY / DRS By Gordon Platt Investor caution and market-specific issues, such as the presidential election in Russia, put a damper on equity capital raised in the form of depositary receipts in the first quarter ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Building Frontier Markets Access

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The development of new frontier indexes in both the fixed-income and equity markets is making it easier for institutional investors to trade often risky and illiquid securities out of just-developing markets. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets Asset Management

SEISMIC SHIFT By Gordon Platt The emerging markets account for an ever-increasing percentage of global investable assets, and the demand for investors' services is growing commensurately. New domestic players are popping up, and global managers are partnering with ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Europe’s Crisis Deepens Euro Worry

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro is likely to decline against the dollar in the medium term, due to political uncertainty in Europe and weak economic conditions, analysts say. “The eurozone debt crisis is ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Indonesia Delays Bank Danamon Deal

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Indonesia’s central bank said it will wait until new bank-ownership rules are in place to consider Singaporean banking outfit DBS Group’s $7.2 billion takeover bid for Bank Danamon Indonesia. Indonesia ...

Banking

Middle East Transaction Banking

NEW GRAVITATIONAL PULL By Ryan Harrison As companies in the region expand globally, their treasury and trade processes are growing in sophistication. As a result, transaction banking is becoming an ever-more-important business driver for both regional and global ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Caucasus

THREE COUNTRIES AT A CROSSROADS By Kim Iskyan Countries of the Caucasus have had very different fates since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Each is moving on a path toward economic stability and growth—albeit at very different ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Risk Management: Trade Credit Insurance

SEARCHING FOR THE SILVER LINING By Al Modugno The European sovereign debt crisis is causing rates to rise for trade credit insurance, and demand is increasing—particularly in emerging markets. Since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008,demand for ...

Banking

Sector Report: Chinese Banking

YIELDING STATE CONTROL By Arthur Clennam Breaking the monopoly of China's big banks is only an idea for now, but one that the government knows it cannot ignore. Premier Wen Jiabao, second-most-powerful member of China's standing committee ...