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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Seeking Alternatives

COVER STORY: ALTERNATIVE FINANCING By Laurence Neville Small and medium-size companies are vital to economic growth and critical to corporate supply chains. Yet traditional lending is virtually closed to SMEs in most markets—certainly in developed markets of the West. ...

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Toronto To Overtake London As A Hub For Bankers

MILESTONES: TORONTO By Erik Heinrich Canada’s financial capital is on track to become one of the largest global banking centers—overtaking London in the number of banking jobs by 2017, according to Moody’s Analytics. Toronto to overtake London in banking ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Asian Companies Ripe For Investment

MILESTONES: SINGAPORE / INDONESIA By Gordon Platt After portfolio managers removed tens of billions of dollars from Asian equity markets during the sell-off in early autumn, corporate valuations are now highly attractive in some industries and sectors. Photo ...

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Daunting Tasks For Papademos

NEWSMAKERS: EUROPE By Valentina Pasquali Greece’s interim prime minister Lucas Papademos was appointed in November, after much squabbling between the country’s two main political parties. Papademos most qualified candidate for the job Papademos faces the daunting tasks ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Global Salon

PARADIGM SHIFT By Vanessa Drucker As part of its Salon series, Global Finance sat down on November 1 with Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making Sense of the Dollar . ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hopes For Era Of Stability In Kyrgyzstan

MILESTONES: KYRGYZSTAN By Kim Iskyan Late October’s landslide victory of incumbent prime minister Almazbek Atambayev as the new president of Kyrgyzstan may bring a modicum of stability to the country’s tumultuous domestic political environment. Atambayev may favor ...

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Jon Corzine Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt Jon Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey and once a US senator, believes that a man’s word is his bond. Fallout from MF Global raises concerns over CFTC watchfulness When ...

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New Hydrocarbon Deposit May Kick-start Cyprian Economy

MILESTONES: CYPRUS By Justin Keay These are roller coaster times for Cyprus. Resource wealth to benefit Cypriots But there may be very good news on the horizon. US company Noble Energy is drilling offshore close to where ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

The 10%+ Club

COVER STORY: THE 10% + CLUB By Laurence Neville Predicting what countries will be the next growth outperformers is tricky at best. Those firms that back the winners will undoubtedly profit, and the countries that make the ...

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The Italian Job

NEWSMAKERS: ITALY By Anita Hawser As yields on Italian debt crept above 7% in mid-November, all eyes were on Italy as the next house of cards that could come tumbling down in the eurozone. Bini Smaghi out ...
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