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Czech success seeks funding to fulfil eastern promise

The Czech Republic’s PPF Group, which owns Home Credit and insurer Ceska Pojistovna, has managed to achieve top three positions in all of its countries of operation and with limited need for international financing. Now, the previously inwardly focused group has finally begun to let outsiders in. Kathryn Wells reports.

Kathryn Wells, January 03, 2006

Hong Kong: UK hedge fund takes on HK

UK activist hedge fund The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI), famous for its successful campaign against Deutsche Börse, shook up Hong Kong’s collegiate corporate world with announcements that it had built up stakes in two of the territory’s corporate elite.

Chris Leahy, January 03, 2006

Best Islamic advisory services: Dar Al Istithmar

Leading international management consultancies have traditionally topped this category, with past winners including Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. This year, although KPMG was an impressive challenger, Euromoney recognizes the work of local specialist Dar Al Istithmar.

Kate Luxford, January 03, 2006

Islamic finance deal of the year: Cagamas IRMBS R$2.05 billion sukuk musharakah

The Cagamas R$2.05 billion ($542.5 million) Islamic residential mortgage backed sukuk (IRMBS) Musharakah, the world’s first rated IRMBS, brought a new asset class to Islamic finance. Cagamas MBS Berhad (CMBS), a single purpose and wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s national mortgage corporation, appointed CIMB, HSBC Amanah, ABN Amro and AmMerchant as joint lead managers for the August 2005 deal.

Kate Luxford, January 03, 2006

Islamic finance product of the year: CIMB Islamic for Islamic profit rate swap

CIMB Islamic’s Islamic profit rate swap (IPRS), a shariah-compliant version of an interest rate swap, opens up a new field in Islamic finance. According to Badlisyah Abdul Ghani, the bank’s head, the IPRS was launched in December 2005 under the purview of Malaysia’s central bank.

January 03, 2006

BANKING

Private Banking: EFG challenges the establishment

It was set up by private bankers. It is run by private bankers, and it is built around private bankers. The brightest talents are flocking to it. Does EFG International have the model to take wealth management by storm? Peter Lee investigates.

Peter Lee, January 03, 2006

Foreign Exchange

Privatization: Telecom Egypt rings in $891 million IPO

Telecom Egypt kick-started the Egyptian government’s privatization programme by completing the biggest IPO from the Middle East and North African region in 2005 in December.

Peter Koh, January 03, 2006

Best Islamic real estate finance house: Noriba

Bahrain-based Noriba snatched this year’s award, narrowly beating the 2005 winner, Gulf Financial House. Noriba, which was incorporated in 2002, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Switzerland’s UBS Group. According to CEO Toufic Kanafani, the bank’s investor base is international, with clients from the Gulf region, the wider Middle East, the US, Europe and South East Asia.

Kate Luxford, January 03, 2006

CAPITAL MARKETS

Leveraged finance: TDC is Europe’s biggest LBO

JPMorgan, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston and Royal Bank of Scotland are underwriting €10.2 billion of debt financing for the purchase of Danish phone company TDC, Europe’s biggest ever leveraged buyout.

Kathryn Tully, January 03, 2006

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January 01, 2006

CAPITAL MARKETS

$440 million payback due to tainted research

This article appears courtesy of Institutional Investor

December 27, 2005

CAPITAL MARKETS

Bloomberg Launches Side-By-Side Equity, Derivatives Trading

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December 27, 2005

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