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June 2008

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Top stories

Mezzanine financing: Another fine mezz

Mezzanine finance: Lenders rewrite their terms of engagement

LBO market braced for messy restructurings

Credit markets

Reinventing the CDO wheel

Interview

Wilbur Ross builds from the bottom up

Green finance

EU could shut the window on the carbon market

Bond investors

Bond investors: Liquidity has a price

Debt issuers

Borrowers awards 2008: The world's best borrowers

Primary debt poll

Primary debt poll 2008: Survival of the fittest

Separating the wheat from the chaff in debt services

Debt capital markets

Credit crunch lessons in debt capital markets

Real estate

US real estate: Which floor has the door to US homes?

Commodities debate

Commodities debate: Refining value from raw materials

Cash management

Corporates demand safeguards for their cash

Turkey

Turkey’s lending boom still booming

Taiwan

Taiwan builds bridges with the mainland

Thailand

Thailand’s doctor of finance prescribes a dose of reform

India

India’s smaller companies go on a buying spree

Portugal

A jump start for Portugal’s IPO market

Dubai

Rasmala: Ali Al Shihabi talks investment in two cultures

Credit markets news

RMBS: HBOS sets a much-needed benchmark for Europe

Leveraged loans: Sponsors buy their own loans

Covered bonds: Mixed fortunes for Iberian borrowers

Credit Markets round-up: Frontini off

Credit Markets round-up: BNP promotes Egan, Marks

Foreign exchange news

People in FX: The need to network

FX platforms: Barclays has a white label

Foreign exchange round-up: CLS adds shekel and Mexican peso...

Foreign exchange round-up: …but central bankers want more

Equity markets news

Trading: Banks swim in dark pools

Exchange traded funds: Regulations eased in the US

Capital markets: NYSE-Euronext jumps into Gaap

Small caps: LSE offers research

Equity market round-up: The month in numbers

Equity market round-up: Nasdaq OMX chooses Fortis

Alternative investments news

Performance: Blow-ups can be predicted

Investment trends: Investors look east and south

Fortress takes hits

Distressed ABS face legal risk

Emerging markets: Focus launches emerging markets FoHF

AI market round-up: US hedge fund managers gloomy

AI market round-up: Citi hedge fund head leaves

AI market round-up: Hedge fund IPOs

AI market round-up: Largest global emerging markets PE fund closes

Hedge funds news

Hedge funds: It’s not only about the money

Hedge funds: Data

Asia news

Philippines: Oil and rice undo hard work

Pakistan: Economy buoyant despite political turbulence

Japan: Dividends up, earnings down

Korea: A friend to business

Banking: Maybank buys in Pakistan

Asia market round-up: Top CS bankers head east

Asia market round-up: Deutsche Japan snags ex-Lehman chairman

Latin America news

Equity capital markets: Brazil suffers IPO indigestion

Investment banking: Banks shake up management

Investment management: BlackRock begins Latin American expansion

Chávez watch: Venezuela strikes deal with Japanese firms

Latin America round-up: Oi buys Brasil Telecom

Latin America round-up: Brazil to manage $20 billion

EEMEA news

Microfinance: Stan Chart and IFC free MFIs

South Africa: Inflation set to fall, says central bank governor

Euro may increase Slovakia’s charms

Ukraine: MHP feeds appetite for farming

Portugal/Angola: BPI’s Angolan dilemma

Saudi Arabia: Ma’aden builds aluminium industry from scratch

EEMEA round-up: Blackstone adds weight in Turkey

EEMEA round-up: Russia – Deutsche regroups, Merrill’s head quits

EEMEA round-up: Burgan goes regional

Market leaders

Pay attention to corporate cash

HBOS attempts a jump-start

It’s time for the raters to come clean

Investment banking: Asia’s finest defy the global squeeze

Citi makes a timely move to Dubai

Argentina’s time for decisiveness

Brazil’s upgrade prompts scepticism

Investment banks: Debt clouds have an equity lining

Columns

Abigail Hofman

Inside Investment: Bill Miller’s conundrum

Against the tide: History is no guide to financial institutions’ woes

Editor's letter: Chill wind after joy of spring

Front End

Ripe bums emerge from sub-prime

Bear Stearns: Grin and bear it

Emptying UK Treasury coughers

Career down the tube?

Quotes of the month

Off the record