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Global Finance announces the “World’s 50 Safest Banks 2009”
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Banking
Gulf Report: Exchanges Enrich Technology
MARKET MAKERS Exchanges Upgrade Technology And Add New Products By Gordon Platt Financial markets across the Gulf region are working hard to enhance the breadth and depth of services they offer. Financial markets in the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Airline And Telecom Mergers Heat Up
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Consolidation in the US airline and global telecom industries has kept merger activity going in the past few months. The proposed merger of United Airlines, based in Chicago, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Books Excerpt: Losing Control
BOOKS —LOSING CONTROL By Stephen D. King The world is witnessing a massive redistribution of wealth as the West learns it can no longer live beyond its means, says HSBC's group chief economist Stephen D. King, author of ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
China’s Currency Move Creates Winners And Losers
Emerging Markets Investor: News By Gordon Platt The People’s Bank of China last month announced that it would allow the renminbi to trade more flexibly, bringing an end to the currency’s two-year-old peg to the dollar. While any ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Egypt’s Stock Exchange Adds Depositary Receipts
Emerging Markets Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt The Egyptian Exchange, one of the more active stock exchanges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has begun trading Egyptian Depositary Receipts (EDRs). The first company to ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Euro Bounces Back From Four-Year Low But Remains Fragile
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The euro fell to a four-year low in early June, dropping to within a whisker of its 1999 introductory rate of $1.18, before suddenly bouncing higher in thin ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis Casts Dark Shadow Over High-Yield Bonds
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Europe's seemingly intractable sovereign debt crisis has triggered a flight to safety among investors, who are shunning bonds of lower-rated companies despite some very attractive yields in a ...
Banking
Gulf Report: Game Changer
ISLAMIC FINANCING BREAKTHROUGH By Anita Hawser GAME CHANGER The arrival of the first globally standardized documentation for privately negotiated Islamic hedging products marks a major breakthrough in Islamic finance and risk management. Compared to the ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Market Conditions Fail To Deter AgBank
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) began marketing operations last month for what could be the biggest initial public offering in history, despite turbulent market conditions that caused a raft ...
Banking
On The Right Path
ON THE RIGHT PATH By Gordon Platt For the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), there have been setbacks on the road to a common currency, which now appears unlikely to be introduced anytime in the next five years, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Sasol May Gain From Lower Natural Gas Prices
Emerging Markets Investor: Company to watch By Gordon Platt Sasol is a prime example of a successful multinational company based in South Africa, where it mines coal to provide the raw material to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals. ...