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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Special Report: BRICs

Shifting Trade Flows And The New Consumer By Dan Keeler Fast-growing trade between BRIC countries has been fueled by an expanding middle class. Western rivals face stiff local and regional competition in building emerging markets growth. A ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM Focus: Corporate Payments

CARD TRICKS By Denise Bedell Advanced card solutions are helping companies extend working capital cycles while improving suppliers' cash flow. The drive to automate payments has been a long-term trend, pushed further by the global financial crisis ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Stars of China Awards Ceremony 2011

DATE: NOVEMBER 15, 2011 LOCATION: RITZ CARLTON, BEIJING Global Finance hosted its annual Stars of China awards ceremony and dinner...

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Treasury and Cash Management Awards Ceremony 2010

DATE: APRIL 29, 2010 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK In late April, over 50 people came to the New York...

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Treasury and Cash Management Awards Ceremony 2011

DATE: APRIL 12, 2011 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at the Harvard Club of New...

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World’s Best Internet Bank Awards Dinner 2011

DATE: NOVEMBER 3, 2011 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK Representatives of most of the first-round winners of The World’s Best...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: KGHM POLSKA MIEDŹ / Poland

POLISH COPPER, SILVER MINER ROLLS WITH THE PUNCHES By Gordon Platt After KGHM Polska Mied reported that its third-quarter 2011 profits had tripled from the same period a year earlier, the Polish government immediately announced a significant increase in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Toolkit: Contingency Planning

PLANNING FOR THE EURO CRISIS By Jonathan Gregson Given the massive financial and contractual impacts of any breakup of the eurozone, it is only to be expected that international companies with European operations, or ties to Europe are ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: Sprint Leads New Issuance Rebound

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt New-issuance volume in the US high-yield market rose sharply in November, led by a $4 billion, two-part offering from Sprint Nextel, the third-largest US mobile network operator. The Kansas company ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Unsponsored ADR Market To Slow

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt New unsponsored American depositary receipt (ADR) program creation is likely to slow down in the short to medium term, according to a report by Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: New China Life Raises $1.9 Billion

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt New China Life Insurance raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering in Hong Kong and Shanghai in December, but it was forced to price the issue at the bottom of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Mexican Exchange Woos High-Frequency Traders

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores exchange in Mexico City says it will introduce faster trading technology by the middle of 2012 in an effort to attract more high-frequency traders. BMV says ...