Let Hoteloc be a warning on the risks in short tail period.

SG CIB takes its cue from collateralized loan obligation securitization.

Asian private banks are continuing to visit the wilder shores of alternative investments. Chris Wright reports.

South Africa is beginning to hit the radar screens of global private equity funds, with two big transactions, one completed the other still being negotiated, grabbing the headlines. Bain Capital bought Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon), while an Actis-led consortium raised its bid for Alexander Forbes, Africa’s biggest independent retirement fund administrator. The deals signal a shift towards buyouts in South African M&A, which has tended to be dominated by black economic empowerment transactions.

In December 2006, Mizuho unveiled Alexander Rekeda, Doug Munson, Jim Shepard, Bill Budd and several others as part of its new structured credit and debt capital markets team in New York. The bankers had formerly worked at Calyon, covering various areas of structured finance and debt.

Why the China rainmaker just won’t go away I The ins and outs of mandate hunting

China’s rainmakers just won’t go away, even though most investment banks now hate the term and stress that it is the bank, and not the individual, that wins mandates. But the superstar bankers are still vital to doing deals in China. The old names hold on to key positions, while a new breed of dealmaker rises to the top of the ranks. Which firms have got their strategy right?

Moody’s efforts to sell a new methodology for rating banks met with a vitriolic chorus of disapproval from market participants and ended in a humiliating climb-down. Now that the agency has patched up its joint default analysis it faces another struggle – to regain its credibility. Alex Chambers reports.

Why the China rainmaker just won’t go away I The ins and outs of mandate hunting

In less than four years Istithmar, the investment arm of conglomerate Dubai World, has become one of the most influential private and public equity and real estate financiers in the world. Its blue-chip holdings include Time Warner, Standard Chartered Bank and large swathes of Manhattan real estate. Sudip Roy reports from Dubai on how the fund has risen to prominence so quickly.

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Henry Cai is a well-liked, hard-working and driven banker who has spent the past decade raising capital not for China’s state-run firms but for its growing army of privately run corporations.

Simon Brady speaks to Sameer Al Ansari (SA), executive chairman, Dubai International Capital, and Rabih Khoury (RK), DIC’s head of Middle East and North Africa Investments about the strategies of the international investment arm of conglomerate Dubai Holding and how it fits in the Dubai Investment Group.