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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Russian Bank’s Gdr Issue Is 2,000th Dr Program

Dr news Russia’s state-controlled Vneshtorgbank (VTB) raised nearly $8 billion in its sale of a 22.5% stake in the company, making it Russia’s seventh-largest company by market capitalization. VTB selected The Bank of New York as the depositary ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions With Trading Partners Reach New Low

Russia Russia's Vladimir Putin at the recent G-8 summit Relations between Russia and the West plunged to fresh post-Cold War lows, as the planned US missile shield in the Czech Republic, the investigation of the death of Alexander ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : End Of An Era As Yeltsin Dies

RUSSIA Boris Yeltsin: Russias first freely elected president The death of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin in April marked the end of an era for Russia. Retrospectives in the Russian press of the country’s first freely elected president ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Key Ipo Weathers Political Storm

TURKEY Gul: Nomination triggered a political crisis Turmoil sparked by the nomination of a suspected Islamist candidate for president in Turkey might have been expected to derail the long-anticipated l2.5 billion Turkish Lira ($1.86 billion) privatisation of the ...

News

Features : Banking on Responsibility

Lending Policies / Banking on Responsibility Increasingly, banks are discovering that strict lending policies can be a powerful risk management...

News

Features : Terrorism Insurance / Holes in the Safety Net

Despite the lessons learned in recent terror attacks, companies are still unprotected against the catastrophic losses they could face in...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Deal Helps Bank Austria Take Clear Lead In CEE

Mergers & Acquisitions Erich Hampel, CEO of Bank Austria Creditanstalt, writing in the banks 2004 annual report, said, In Central...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Euro’s Heightened Political Risk Does Not Detract From Success Of Single Currency, Analysts Say

Corporate Financing Focus The clear no votes in the Netherlands and France on the EU Constitution led some market participants...

News

Cover Story : Living On The Edge

Just months after analysts began suggesting it could topple the dollar as the worlds favorite currency, the euro has been...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese Firms Embark On Shopping Spree

China Oil giant CNOOC joined the rush to snap up foreign assets Chinese companies continued to demonstrate their economic prowess...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Oligarchs Tremble After Khodorkovsky’s Conviction

Russia Chubais: Takes the blame The trial of former Yukos Oil Company head Mikhail Khodorkovsky finally ended, as the former...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : State Governments Chase Investment

India Battling the monsoons in India Indias state governments have begun to push hard for foreign investments. Among them is...