March 2013

Main

Top stories

The jumbo LBO market reopens

Markets

Are European CLOs back from the dead?

Africa

Miners in Africa dig deeper for cash

Latin America

Indian summer for LatAm debt markets?

Bancomer back in the spotlight

Rates

Bond markets: The threat from rising rates

Rates market: Will hedging options evaporate?

Western Europe

Portugal’s banks are impatient for recovery

Emerging Europe

Istanbul’s invisible IPO market

Infrastructure debt

Institutional buyers jostle for position in new infrastructure debt market

Banking news

Commercial banking: BNP Paribas aims to grow in Asia

Jenkins slashes Barclays’ problem division

Crowdfunding gets stamp of approval

Markets news

Investors stick with commodities

New players tackle private equity succession

Restructuring: The revenge of the zombie balance sheet

EM policymakers to sit out the currency war as EM FX correlation hits decade low

Yen exchange-rate misalignments overstated; renminbi a better focus of currency hostilities

Asia news

Chinese NPLs: unsafe at any level

ECM: Chinalco IPO misses the mark

Latin America news

Brazil: UBS links wealth management, trading and IB

Ecuador to test high-yield access

EEMEA news

Debt capital markets: Russia and Turkey boost local-currency Eurobonds

Asiacell listing sparks hopes for more Iraqi IPOs

Acquisition financing: Record–breaking loan as M&A bids pick up

Nigeria greets new bond platform with caution

Comment

JP Morgan: Double Dimon’s number’s up

M&A boom, bondholder doom

Litigation: S&P can’t dodge the DoJ

Honourable Hourican leaves RBS with head held high

HSBC: When universal isn’t

Investment: Over-exuberance in Africa

Alarm over G-Sifi debt buffers

Columns

Abigail with attitude: Jenkins' Gulag-esque approach to redefining Barclays

The hypocrisy of banking and the misdirected cull

Abigail with attitude: Storm clouds on Santander’s horizon

Abigail with attitude: PS – Africa, Jim O’Neill BAML’s Montag

Banks and hedge funds hope to profit from currency wars

Regulators belatedly tackle potential abuse with the broadening of Libor investigations

Inside investment: The collateral crunch

Barclays: Exceptions become the rule

Front End

Private banking awards: Because he’s worth it

Calling all Greek entrepreneurs! Your country needs you

Many strings to S&P’s bow

50 Shades of Gary?

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