Top stories
Japan emerges from the shadows
A new generation embraces M&A
Nikkei heads for 24,000 by 2010… or sooner
Funds get activist in Japan
Living in the past; paying with the future
Market leaders
Emerging market’s boundaries broken down from desire for local opportunities
Hotspot sale spurs talk of eFX consolidation
China market may soon be a real deal
Time for FoHF to reassess their strategies
LATAM equity markets: A bubble atop a bubble?
No room for complacency on interest rate rises
Debt news
Debt markets: Telefónica’s faulty line
Quality borrowers: Top issuers pay up for dollars
MTNs storm ahead as new structures find favour
People: End of an era, and a new start for René Karsenti
Hybrids: Porsche takes unusual turn to Asian retail
FIG Watch: The man who makes Barclays fluent in finance
DM round-up: FSA takes the covers off
DM round-up: Bright spotlight on HBOS
DM round-up: KfW extends itself
Structured credit news
Securitization hedging: Indices set to deliver European ABS hedge tool
Real estate CDOs: Equity tranches could be next for CRE
Mezzanine ABS CDOs: Rarity pays for Aegis
SC round-up: Nomura polishes Diamond
SC round-up: More RMBS platforms
Foreign exchange news
ETDs: Nybot launches euro index futures and options
Canadian dollar: Correlation story loses the plot
FX market volumes: No sign of a slowdown
FX round-up: Does Hotspot takeover signal consolidation?
FX round-up: Unleashing hell on the FX poll
FX round-up: Bribery... It’s the thought that counts
Fund management news
Asset allocation: Hedge funds in M&A turnabout
Investor activism: Funds stand up to Shell
BofA targets wealthy US families
NASD ruling might catch out hedge funds
Hedge funds: Liquidations up, but so are manager numbers
FM round-up: Alternative investments of the month:
FM round-up: Life and death arbitrage
Equity markets news
IASB rules could curtail sales of complex derivatives
Sukuk: Dubai Ports raises $3.5 billion
Execution rankings: And the best brokerage is…
Derivatives exchanges: Eurex seeks US options partner
ECM round-up: The month in numbers
ECM round-up: Akemashita Omedeto Gozaimasu!
Corporate finance news
Acquisition financing: New weapons in pharma wars
LBOs: Could more mean worse?
Leveraged recapitalizations: Weetabix takes the biscuit
Chapter 11 bankruptcy: Winn-Dixie creditors pushed out
Moody’s grants GMAC stay of execution
CF round-up: Spare wing, anyone?
Asia news
New deals, old questions for China's bank investments
Japan: Crisis? Which crisis?
Brewer milks the market in Vietnam
Private equity: Morgan Stanley cements Asia deal
Indian Investment Bank: State alliance
Consolidation takes off in India’s aviation sector
M&A: Japan Inc heads overseas
CNOOC keeps buying oil abroad
Capital markets still alive in the Philippines
Asia round-up: Credit Suisse gears up
Asia round-up: Distressed specialist goes into rehab
Latin America news
LATAM Perpetual bonds: Too much of a good thing?
Investment banking: Goldman/Pactual deal is called off
Liability management: Convexity breaks Panama’s bonds
Andean banking: Peru straightens up for international players
Chile: Bachelet’s good start; Marcel can make it happy
LATAM: Foreign banks try to catch remittance flow
Latin America market round-up: Hugo Chávez watch
LATAM round-up: Deutsche’s Latin chief is moving on
EEMEA news
Iraq restructures Saddam debt
CIS: Raiffeisen looks to sell stake in RosUkrEnergo
South African LBO record smashed
Foreign banks rush in to Ukraine
DIFX – one stock, no trades
EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - Lebanon
EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - Romania
EEMEA round-up: Bank watch - UK
Front End
I had that Anshu Jain in the back of my cab
redit uisse: You ’redit here first
Trading blunders: This month, the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Stadium sell-out for Gulf bank IPO
Morgan Stanley’s pantomime
