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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

EUROPEAN CORPORATE CREDIT QUALITY IS ON THE RISE

Corporate credit-rating upgrades in the first quarter of 2014 outnumbered downgrades in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the first time since 2008, according to Moody’s Investors Service. The rating agency says positive credit trends in the EMEA region are likely to continue through 2014, despite potential negative events in Russia and Ukraine.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SANCTIONS THREATEN RUSSIAN DEALS

Mergers and acquisitions involving Russian companies, including Morgan Stanley’s planned sale of its global oil-trading unit to Rosneft, are threatened by Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET

Despite a pause in February, when the number of share purchase authorizations declined by 32% over the same period a year ago, share buybacks are still very popular on Wall Street.

Banking

US VS THE WORLD: ROUND ONE

The fight has just begun, as newly enacted Fed rules start to cramp long-accepted operating styles of global banks. The banks are weighing what to do about it—as are global policymakers.

Features

Real-time Payments in the US: Will It Take Two Years Or Ten Years ?

<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">While US policymakers arecalling for a real-time payments system to be in place within a decade</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">, payments execs think it could be achieved in just two years.</span>

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Debt: Verizons Refi Redux

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Verizon Communications, which sold $49 billion of debt last September in the largest bond sale ever, has returned to the bond market repeatedly this year to take advantage of low interest rates ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US: Elon Musk Makes Power Play

NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright Dubbed by his supporters a gifted visionary, engineer and CEO Elon Musk is not afraid to...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

US: M&A Has Strongest Start Since 2000

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt US companies announced $336 billion of mergers and acquisitions in the first two months of 2014, up 31% from the same period a year earlier, and the strongest January and February combined ...

Banking

World’s Best Investment Banks 2014

ANNUAL AWARDS: HIGH-OCTANE YEAR Global investment banks will face a tremendous challenge as they strive to continue running their underwriting businesses at the elevated levels they reached in 2013. Many of the largest banks on Wall Street reaped a windfall ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

North America

EUROPEAN CORPORATE CREDIT QUALITY IS ON THE RISE

SANCTIONS THREATEN RUSSIAN DEALS

SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET

US VS THE WORLD: ROUND ONE

Real-time Payments in the US: Will It Take Two Years Or Ten Years ?

Corporate Debt: Verizons Refi Redux

US: Elon Musk Makes Power Play

US: M&A Has Strongest Start Since 2000

World’s Best Investment Banks 2014

BAFT Annual Global Meeting

Corporate Debt: Fed Tapering To Stay On Track

Editor’s Letter: The Fed And Emerging Frailties