Emerging Europe
CEE company ranking 2007: CEZ leads the way for CEE corporates
Emerging European banking: UniCredit pulls its eastern businesses together
Russia: Denholm Hall gets Sharpe with rouble debt
Russia: Mint Capital takes a fresh approach to private equity
How RAB planted the seeds of Russia’s rural recovery
Russia’s hedge fund managers: The long, the short and the tall
How Citic oiled the wheels of Kazakh M&A
Tatarstan overview: A unique republic, A unique investment opportunity
Debt news and analysis
Leveraged finance: Financial sponsors push boundaries
Real estate: Anglo Irish Bank bypasses CMBS market
Covered bonds: First benchmark covered bond for maple market
FIG Watch – Carlos Stilianopoulos: Caja Madrid reins in mortgage book growth
Debt market round up: Niall Cameron joins Markit
Debt market round up: Jenkins joins the buy side
Debt market round up: DBRS gains ECAI eligibility
Structured finance news and analysis
Whole-business securitization: The mystery of Theatre
CMBS: Leisure assets prove hard work
SF market round up: Home advantage
SF market round up: CDS growth levels slow, but still up by a third
Foreign exchange news
FX M&A: Tullett squares up to eSpeed
Monetary union: Single Gulf currency plan hits snag
Ukraine considers abandoning currency peg
Markets: Icap gatecrashes electronic swaps market
FX market round up: ISE launches electronic options
FX market round up: General Atlantic invests in Getco
FX market round up: CFETS launches new platform
FX market round up: FXMarketSpace goes live
Alternative investments news
Macro fund performance: Goldman Sachs’s Global Alpha trips – but will it fall?
Japanese hedge funds struggle to raise assets
Prime brokerage: Citi broadens its Asia hedge fund services
Institutional investment: Direct investing increases
Investing in Asian companies: Hedge fund Harmony runs deep in Asia
AI market round up: Tremont to expand core businesses
AI market round up: Asia’s second generation
AI market round up: Carlyle to launch $1 billion hedge fund
Latin America news
Hedge funds: GCA ready to launch LatAm fund
Ecuador: Correa still intent on debt renegotiation
Brazil: FIDCs force the pace in Brazilian securitization
Equity markets: Market for the region
Latin America market round up: Hugo Chávez watch
Latin America market round up: Pactual’s Pereira to head Latam ECM at UBS
Latin America market round up: SG buys Brazilian bank
EEMEA news
Project finance: Oman’s Blue City advisers sued
Russia: Baring Vostok scales new private equity heights
Turkey: Local banks still taste sweet
CIS: Central Asian policy lender spreads its wings
Africa: Nigerian banks enter international bond markets
Serbia: Carrying on with business as usual
Poland: Warsaw woos, Warsaw woes
Borrower profile: Çalik builds funding for rapid growth
EEMEA market round up: Dresdner takes on Lojevsky in Russia role
EEMEA market round up: KBC buys in Russia
Market leaders
ABN Amro: Bid war means it’s get Real time
FX: Is there life beyond the bulge?
Covenant-lite means risk-heavy
Real estate as an asset class: Universal location
Equity markets: Clearing the way for integration
The case for exotic assets: Sub-Saharan Africa, Cuba and Bosnia
Hong Kong’s China listings: Another China own-goal
Front End
Euroweek: 1987 and all that
CrackBerry bankers forced to interact
Eurex: Swimming with sharks
Global ABS outgrows Barcelona
Der mensch ist, was er isst
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