Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: The Demand Dilemma
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Japan: Veteran Executive Takes Top Job At Nomura
NEWSMAKERS: JAPAN By Valentina Pasquali After the insider-trading scandal that, in July, forced the resignation of both its chief executive officer and chief operating officer, Japan's largest financial conglomerate, Nomura, is gearing up for a new chapter in ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A: China Seeks Global Energy Assets
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, returned from his second official trip to China in February and announced that Beijing would lend two giant pandas, Er Shun and Ji Li, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Offshore Deals Help Counter Slowing Global M&A Market
MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Paula Green Corporate financial executives with cash to burn are turning up the heat on merger and acquisition activity in offshore financial locales around the globe. M&A deals are on the rise in Mauritius The value ...
Award Winners
Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Global Winners
By Gordon Platt FINANCIAL ADVISER: HSBC When Abu Dhabi needed a financial adviser for its latest seawater desalination and power project, Mirfa IWPP, it selected HSBC on their longstanding relationship and the bank’s reputation, without opening the contract to competitive ...
Award Winners
Project Finance and Infrastructure Providers 2012: Regional Winners
By Gordon Platt NORTH AMERICA FINANCIAL ADVISER: Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group MUFG led the $585 million nonrecourse financing of the Wind Energy Transmission Texas project, and structured a $387 million construction loan for the Lone Star Transmission project, a 329-mile transmission ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Risk Management: Cyber Risk
COVER UP By Paula Green Insuring against cyber risks is stoking the imaginations of insurance companies as the risks to multinationals expand. However, companies should check what policies cover them for. Cyber risks are increasingly edging their ...
Country Report
Taiwan Seeks New Growth Opportunities
THE TIES THAT BIND By Arthur Clennam Economic forces are subtly improving prospects for Taiwanese companies seeking new markets in China. An ancient folk story from Taiwan goes something like this: A frog lives for years in ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Annual Directory Of TCM Service Suppliers
DIRECTORY Our annual listing of TCM service and solution providers Banking Service Providers Bank of America Merrill Lynch CONTACT : Paul Simpson, Head of Global Transaction Services EMAIL : gcbkmarketing@bankofamerica.com www.corp.bankofamerica.com ING CONTACT : Willem Dokkum, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Asia—Latin America Trade Builds New Frontiers
EXPEDITING GROWTH By Anita Hawser Trade flows between Latin America and Asia are growing at a phenomenal pace. An increasing number and variety of banks and other agencies are providing liquidity and trade finance solutions to nurture these ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasury & Cash Management: Who’s Who
WHO’S WHO Global Finance’s annual list of Who’s Who in Treasury & Cash Management Bank of America Merrill Lynch Paul Simpson Head of global transaction services Paul Simpson joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in May 2011 and ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Veteran Indian Finance Minister Back In The Finance Seat
NEWSMAKERS: INDIA By Luca Ventura Often labeled arrogant and brusque, India's finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, is not the most popular politician within his own Congress Party and not much in the public eye. Chidambaram's new ministerial appointment ...