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Perspectives on the UK chancellor's pre-budget report

BVCA gives cautious welcome to Pre Budget Report The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) welcomes the Chancellor's emphasis on entrepreneurship. As we have said, we are calling on the Chancellor to rule out any further increases in business taxation or any new imposition of regulation on business.

December 02, 2004

ABN Amro upbeat on European corporates

Dutch bank ABN Amro has bucked the bearish predictions for European corporate credit next year, predicting that despite unattractive economic prospects, excess liquidity and scarcity of corporate issuance will keep market risk low.

December 02, 2004

BANKING

Investing off the beaten track

From unlikely roots, US private-equity investor Lombard has deftly re-invented itself to emerge as a leading local value investor in Asia. It has some way to go before it has truly regional scope but an unconventional approach to investing has yielded impressive results to date.

Chris Leahy, December 01, 2004

Trouble at the chaebol

Korea

Chris Leahy, December 01, 2004

Mossimo and IXYS make CFO appointments with the SEC in mind

Two US companies have appointed people with accounting experience to be their new CFOs, looking to use their expertise to ensure compliance with financial regulations. Mossimo, the US clothing company, has appointed former Moss Adams accountant Vicken Festekjian as its new CFO.

December 01, 2004

BANKING

China faces a stock market breakdown

China's economy is humming along in top gear but its domestic securities markets remain stuck in neutral. As the central government continues to struggle with financial reform, losses mount and systemic risk increases.

Chris Leahy, December 01, 2004

Opinion

Kylie clone is letdown at Baywatch do

Macquarie Securities' Baywatch-themed relaunch party at London's exclusive rooftop bar, Coq d'Argent, received a cool reception from some guests and not just because of the un-Baywatch like winter weather. The hosts, who were more modestly dressed than most of Baywatch's former cast members such as Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff, had told guests to expect Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue to make an appearance later in the evening.

Peter Koh, December 01, 2004

Goya is first fully managed CDO of EDS

Leading equity derivatives players are pitching higher yields and name diversification to CDO investors. But deals need to be conservatively modelled and attractively priced.

Mark Brown, December 01, 2004

A way in for European smaller issuers

Corporate bonds

Kathryn Tully, December 01, 2004

Should outsourcers be outsourced?

India Citigroup and General Electric pioneered the use of India's potential for providing cheap services to their global operations years before outsourcing became popular. But if their recent moves are any indication they have divergent views on the way they want to manage their businesses in the future.

Kala Rao, December 01, 2004

Foreign Exchange

Investors gorge on mezzanine debt

European mezzanine finance is growing fast in absolute terms and as a proportion of the financing of individual deals. With hedge funds and CDO structurers eager for the paper there's a fear among some traditional mezzanine investors that pricing is not taking proper account of risk and that innovative structures are an unhealthy development for the market.

Mark Brown, December 01, 2004

Cut down or buy up

back to What price global warming?

Deborah Kimbell, December 01, 2004

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