Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Companies Continue To Hoard Cash In Wake Of Credit Crunch
MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser It is not just banks that are coming under increasing criticism for their liquidity-hoarding tendencies....
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story: Global Markets Brace For The Aftershock
GLOBAL MARKET BRACE FOR THE AFTERSHOCK Many countries still have a long way to go to convince investors that they are not likely to suffer a sovereign default. By Laurence Neville Just as the mood was lifting ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
IMF And World Bank Lurch Into Conflict Over Emerging Markets
NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Michael Shari As finance ministers and top executives of the world's largest banks converge in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this month, a simmering diplomatic conflict between ...
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Kan Sees Off Leadership Challenge
NEWSMAKERS: JAPAN By Thomas Clouse Ozawa: Failed to unseat Japan’s prime minister Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan retained leadership of his political party and the country after political powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa unsuccessfully challenged him for his position in ...
Banking
Milestones: Financial Services Industry Faces Long Convalescence
Global By Anita Hawser Moloney: Regulators’ lenient attitude toward banks is over As banks enter the convalescence phase after what some describe as the financial equivalent of a major medical trauma, there may be a need for further ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones: Rate Decision Sparks Fears Of Political Meddling
South Korea By Thomas Clouse Lee Seongtae: Kept a steady hand on tiller during crisis Few economies have proven as resilient over the past 18 months as that of South Korea. In the wake of Lehman Brothers' collapse, ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestones: SEC Issues Wake-up Call On Climate-Change Disclosure
United States By Gordon Platt All change: Climate risk moves up the corporate agenda The US Securities and Exchange Commission opened a can of worms with its decision to require companies to consider the effects of climate change ...
Banking
Milestones: Wall Street Banks Consider Breaking For The Border
Canada By Erik Heinrich Toronto’s Bay Street: Future home of many US banks? In the 1960s US draft dodgers headed north to Canada to avoid the war in Vietnam. Today, some 40 years later, Wall Street may be ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers: Downturn Throws Chávez Onto The Ropes
Venezuela By Antonio Guerrero Chávez: Economic troubles are turning his dreams into a nightmare Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez's dream of spreading his "21st century socialism" throughout Latin America could be halted by a troubled economy. After he spent ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Newsmakers: Financial Turmoil Hits London’s Status
United Kingdom By Anita Hawser Jenkins: London faces threat from multiple emerging market centers As economic power increasingly shifts toward the East and regulators in the West look to rein in the growth of their financial sectors, senior ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Newsmakers: IMF Shakes Up Policy Advice Of Crisis
Global By Gordon Platt Blanchard: Policymakers should use all the tools available Economists who thought they had figured out how to keep national economies growing and inflation under control by simply focusing on short-term interest rates have learned ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers: The First Female President Set To Tighten Costa Rica/China Ties
Costa Rica By Dan Keeler All smiles: Chinchilla celebrates with supporters Laura Chinchilla, a former vice president and justice minister, is set to become Costa Rica's first female president after winning the country's early February election with a ...