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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011

WEATHERING THE STORM Following the 2008 financial crisis, trade finance was a term often uttered in the upper echelons of global political circles. Treasury secretaries bandied the term around at G20 meetings, stressing the importance of keeping the wheels ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011: Forfaiting

IN WITH THE OLD By Paula L. Green Thanks to new technology that improves information flow, traditional trade finance tools such as forfaiting are now being used more frequently as part of a broader supply chain finance program. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011: Global Trade

REBUILDING CONFIDENCE By Anita Hawser Global trade was affected over the course of 2011 by major disruptions such as the US sovereign rating downgrade, the Japanese earthquake and political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa. Not ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011: Sustainable Supply Chains

GREEN PROFITS By Denise Bedell Companies have long been working on creating sustainable internal operations. With growing recognition of the symbiotic buyer-supplier relationship, they are now moving those efforts into their supply chains—and reducing costs in the process. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trade & Supply Chain Finance 2011: Trade Receivables Securitization

BECOMING LIQUID By Denise Bedell Investor interest in trade receivables securitization is growing, and companies are taking note as they search for alternative liquidity sources. Atallah, Deutsche Bank: Volatile credit markets are forcing companies to use new ...

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Uniting Divided Factions In Japan

NEWSMAKERS: JAPAN By Thomas Clouse Yoshihiko Noda became Japan’s sixth prime minister in the last five years after the lower house of parliament voted the 54-year-old finance minister into office on August 30. Noda is Japan’s sixth PM ...

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Beers: The Man Who Pulled The Trigger On The US Triple-A

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt David Beers, managing director and head of sovereign credit ratings for Standard & Poor’s in London, is the mustachioed face behind the rating agency’s downgrade of US treasury bonds to AA+ from ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Investors Optimistic On Sri Lankan Growth

MILESTONES: SRI LANKA By Kim Iskyan It’s been a good run for Sri Lanka of late. In mid-July, all three major ratings agencies upped their views on the country, pointing to the ongoing recovery and broad economic stabilization. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kulibayev Front-Runner In Kazakhstan Succession

NEWSMAKERS: KAZAKHSTAN By Kim Iskyan Talk of who might replace Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev—who has ruled the oil-rich Central Asian country since 1989—has long been taboo in the country’s political circles. With Nazarbayev’s blessing Succession uncertainty has ...

Banking

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Christine Lagarde will be under the microscope at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington on September 23–25. Lagarde: Wants relevant, credible and effective IMF The silver-haired woman the French like ...

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LSE’s Rolet Between A Rock And A Hard Place

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Xavier Rolet, the London Stock Exchange’s CEO, must have breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced in early August that it would investigate the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Preparing For Basel III

COVER STORY: MISSING PIECES By Michael Shari Corporations are adding up the costs—and looking at alternatives to increasingly expensive banking services. It would be hard to find a multinational corporation with a firmer grip on the intricacies ...