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Latin America’s two biggest equity markets have agreed to integrate as part of a pilot scheme to bolster liquidity in the region. Brazilian and Mexican investors to gain access to each other’s markets.
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Middle Eastern private investment and advisory firm Injazat Capital is launching a $100 million Islamic-compliant healthcare fund this month.
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Brazil’s biggest private sector bank is a retail powerhouse. But Bradesco’s president Márcio Cypriano tells Sudip Roy that the bank intends to beef up its capital markets business.
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Morgan Stanley took the most M&A advisory mandates worldwide in the first half of the year, but Goldman Sachs had edged ahead again by November.
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GSAM's boutique structure provides a potential model for other asset managers.
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“It’s nearly impossible to say which one you would choose when they go head to head in a pitch for passive mandates. They’re 10-ton gorillas that joust at the top.”
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The world’s largest foreign exchange banks have made a mistake in streaming prices to scores of electronic platforms and inviting everyone to participate in them. Now, they want to take back control. As Lee Oliver finds out, a new bank-only system is being touted as the answer. Who is behind it, and will it succeed?
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Modest though it might appear, China's first fully-fledged buyout of a state-owned enterprise is significant.
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Capital market practitioners have failed to develop the necessary credit skills to assess and absorb infrastructure risk. Now as Philip Moore reports, these shortcomings are being addressed.
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Although deals by large listed companies grab the headlines, BEE is having an impact at all levels of South African economic life. Despite its short investment horizon, some bankers see a natural fit between private equity and BEE.
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Cash offer for O2 prompts concerns that telecoms sector might be about to embark on another debt binge.
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Deutsche survey finds CFOs think they are great at what they do.
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Companies take advantage of the growing popularity of the Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios, or the FIDC market. The Brazilian ABS fund, (FIDC) is growing in popularity as it enables companies to improve their debt situation by reducing the cost of funding and lengthening tenors.
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A spate of poor deals gets the investment bankers thinking. After a difficult October, in which initial public offerings met with a variety of fates, attention last month swung once again to the IPO process itself.
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Greater anonymity, leverage and lower trading costs are seen as incentives.
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Banks get together to create industry utility.
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UK Takeover Panel amends its rules on contracts for difference.
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The decision of £118 billion ($202 billion) pan-European fund manager F&C to dissolve negotiations to outsource its operational functions to Mellon Financial Services strikes another blow to back-office operations providers. Earlier this year, Schroders and JPMorgan cancelled their outsourcing agreement, and consultants say it’s a sign that fund managers and service providers are realizing that outsourcing is not as easy to conduct as was once thought.
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But UK regulator will not ask for position data.
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SovRisc is capital markets disintermediation and may transform the $50 billion export loan guarantee business.
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Hurricane Katrina blamed for extreme changes in cross-border flows.
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Cantor Fitzgerald offshoot BGC is being coy about the apparent closure of its spot FX broking business.
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Investment banks need to think carefully about which institutions they market their services to.
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Can wealth management truly thrive within the confines of an investment bank?
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The wounds from the region’s financial crisis may have healed on company balance sheets but the trauma remains
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Proposals in the French budget bill for 2006 and discussions in parliament last month could lead to significant changes in France’s public sector debt and risk management. Risk management role for AFT as Cades remains separate borrower.
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Trichet’s statements have profound implications for some EU member states
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As banks get ready to divide up their bonus pool in December or early January, some fixed income traders had better get ready to be disappointed.