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  • Competition is driving down the fees banks charge for running privatization issues. Last year's 3% is heading below 2%. Top firms argue that skimping on fees damages issue quality and, especially, after-sales service. But the same firms are cutting their charges to stay in the game. Peter Lee reports.
  • I am standing around in this financial mausoleum where the morticians wear frock coats, when I hear voices raised and a mahogany door slams open and out bursts this redhead, yelling: Any more of this expletive deleted from you and I'll take my overdraft elsewhere.
  • Euromoney's poll of government finance ministries, privatized companies, investors and banks puts Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley at the top of the privatization rankings. Their European rivals are on the whole less popular, but not as unpopular as, say, the words "French privatization" are to the average investor. By Charles Piggott and Sasha Zbitnoff.
  • The wave of privatizations over the last 15 years has spawned new types of legal structure - and specialist lawyers to apply them. By Christopher Stoakes.
  • Privatization has been one of the strongest oars rowing the boat of global economic liberalization. By David Roche.
  • Privatization has got itself a bad name. Investors, burned by poorly-performing issues over the past two years, are no longer excited by it.
  • In the interest of national security, The telecoms dilema, Not convertible to Maastricht, Hardly a model, Measuring the world.
  • A bid so finely priced as to put profits in doubt, a smouldering argument over 500 years of iron ore reserves, the lack of a new story to tell investors - these are the problems Merrill Lynch faces after winning the mandate to privatize Companhia Vale de Rio Doce. Competitors that failed to secure the contract say they are sleeping better now it has gone to someone else. Brian Caplen reports.
  • The Korean government is eager to sell off a large chunk of Korea Telecom, not least because it needs the money to help balance its budget. But with an issue of up to $2 billion likely, there's no way the local market can cope, especially when it's beset by scandal. So is it time for the finance ministry to call up some international investment bankers to discuss a foreign listing? Tony Shale reports.
  • Russian privatization has been rapid and controversial. Transfers to banks of stakes in the country's largest businesses have sparked a furious debate about the terms of the deals and whether or not the banks are improving management. But instead of changing tack, the government has been pushing ahead before the political climate changes. Vindicating its quick approach has been the much quieter and more successful sell-off of thousands of smaller companies.
  • The enormous enthusiasm international investment bankers showed when China began floating state-owned companies in 1993 has cooled markedly. The poor market performance of the early issuers has slowed the flow of new ones. But signs are that the Chinese authorities are adopting a more realistic approach to attract back foreign investors. Sophie Röell reports.
  • Brawn triumphs over class, Schroders touts track record, Last orders please, They live to roadshow, Privitization gives Mongolians the hump.