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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Asia

ASIA ACTS AMID ADVERSITY By Thomas Clouse The turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa and the devastating consequences of the early March earthquake in Japan are dragging heavily on Asia’s export-led, resource-intensive economic recovery. When ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Take Cover

INSURANCE: POLITICAL RISK COVER By Anita Hawser Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have brought political risk into sharp focus for multinationals in the region and beyond. It was the morning after the Japanese ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Analysis: Latin America Goes To Market

ANALYSIS: LATIN AMERICAN DEBT By Denise Bedell Latin America’s corporations are accessing both domestic and international debt capital markets as never before, and investors are happy to fund growth in the region. Last year was a significant ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Fatima Fertilizer

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: COMPANY TO WATCH By Anita Hawser Headquartered in Lahore, Fatima Fertilizer, which provides nitric acid, ammonia and other fertilizer and chemicals products, was born out of the Pakistan government’s 2001 Fertilizer Policy, which aims to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: Investors Fear Inflation

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The European Central Bank sent a shockwave through global fixed-income markets last month with its “strong vigilance” alert, signaling that it was about to raise interest rates to ensure that ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Bumper Year Ahead For Asian DRs

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Anita Hawser A Korean flour and feeds mill company, DongA One, selected BNY Mellon as its depositary bank for its ADR program. Each ADR issued represents two common shares of the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: PE Firms Cash Out With IPOs

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Nashville, Tennessee–based hospital operator HCA Holdings sold more shares than planned in its initial public offering in March, and it sold them at the high end of the expected price ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM: Turmoil May Change Sovereign Fund Strategy

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Anita Hawser The investment activities of sovereign wealth funds in some of the oil-rich countries in the Middle East and North Africa are being scrutinized with increasing interest by investors as political unrest ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East

BUSINESS AS USUAL DESPITE UNREST By Anita Hawser The turmoil sweeping the Arab world threatens to cause a contagion that will spread far beyond the Middle East, says Barings Asset Management. Kuwait and other GCC countries in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Fed Lags Europe In Inflation Fight

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The dollar has been drifting lower this year on expectations that the...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Energy And Financials Heat Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The energy and financial services sectors were expected to be fertile ground for mergers and acquisitions in 2011, and so far they are living up to those expectations. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Taiwan Roundtable: Economy & Business

TAIWAN: CHARTING A STEADY COURSE Moderated by Joseph Giarraputo At a roundtable in Taipei, Global Finance brought together key figures in Taiwan’s banking and finance industry to discuss the prospects for one of Asia’s most successful export-driven economies. Tzung-Ta ...