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April 2012

Main

Top stories

Reality bites: The truth about investment banking in Asia

Asia Pacific

LGFVs: China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Infrastructure

Risk wrap key to Europe’s infrastructure ambitions

Investment banking

M&A bankers still waiting for a boom

China

What’s wrong with Dagong?

Philippines

Manila plots its next move forward

Taiwan

Taiwan’s door to the mainland slowly opens

Country risk

Equity markets

Equity markets: Will Gulf rally stay on track?

Middle East

QNB flies flag for Qatar’s growth

Corporate finance

Qatar digs deeper for financing

Foreign Exchange

EuromoneyFXNews e-trading survey: Action stations for electronic migration

EuromoneyFXNews e-trading survey results index

Investment

Hedge funds turn to relative values

Banking news

Community banks: Privately owned US banks stock up for sale

Stress tests: Hawkish Fed hastens US Basle III phase-in

Contingent Convertibles: UBS pays the price for permanent write-down

Markets news

Private placements: USPPs ride to the rescue for Europe’s corporates

Sustainable investment goes mainstream

Traiana signs six banks for client FX clearing

Equities: Rights issue drives Peugeot/GM alliance

Securitization: Spreads tighten as US ABS market gets on a roll

Asia news

China: Cinda pulls heavyweight rabbits out of hat

India: Buck is passed as ONGC’s IPO flops

Equity capital markets: AIG deal attracts one and all

Latin America news

Brazil: Mantega talks of war as Dutch disease diagnosed

Bolivia: BAML and Goldman win Bolivian mandate

Brazil: BTG recapitalizes for next growth phase

Colombia: Political complacency could cost a decade

EEMEA news

Emerging Europe: Russia deal flow returns after Putin win

Middle East: Emirates NBD prints Gulf’s first dim sum bond

South Africa: Unsecured credit boom raises concern

Market leaders

Banking: CIMB’s symbolic deal

CoCos: Hybrid deals highlight investor confusion

M&A bankers place their hopes in FIG

Brazil: Mantega needs to move war to home soil

QNB: Qatar promotes Gulf champion

Hot air blocks Asia IPO pipeline

Columns

Abigail Hofman: Time for Blankfein and Cohn to exit the Goldman stage

Abigail Hofman: Muppetgate leaves Goldman looking none-too-clever

Abigail Hofman: April

Macaskill on markets: Question marks loom over Ermotti’s call to old friend Orcel

Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs: The inside story

Against the tide: Europe is not out of the woods

Inside investment: Golden mean

Front End

HSBC: Sevens up!

Jonathan Moulds: Playing to a different tune

Cup classics!

Full moon, half moon, total eclipse

Quotes of the month

Off the record

Research Guide

The 2012 guide to Commercial banking in Central and Eastern Europe