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Banking
Go With The Flow
CORPORATE TOOLBOX: LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT By Anita Hawser Banks are offering increasingly innovative products to help companies make the most of their internal liquidity. It might be hard to picture now, but just five years ago credit was ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Hot Commodities
CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE: COMMODITIES CRUNCH By Jonathan Gregson Soaring commodities prices are changing the economic balance of Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Faltering growth in some of the world’s biggest economies may be grabbing ...
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 ...