Renaissance nears African brokerages deals
Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank, is in “advanced negotiations” to buy brokerages in “five or six” African countries, its co-founder and chief executive Stephen Jennings told the FT....
View ArticleRenaissance Capital to open HK office
Renaissance Capital, the Moscow-based investment bank, is opening an office in Hong Kong in expectation that a wave of Russian companies will choose to sell shares in the city. The move comes five...
View ArticleNine IPOs set for US market
The US initial public offerings market is heading for its busiest week in nearly three years after a recent share price rally raised hopes for the struggling market in new issues, reports the FT. At...
View ArticleIPO market still out for the summer
Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Renaissance Capital (in the usual place) do their best to add gloss to their third quarter overviews of the IPO market, but not enough to brighten a depressingly dark...
View ArticleGreek lessons from John Major, Latvia and Ireland
So, bondholders (if they “agree”) will give Greece more of a fighting chance to tackle its debt burden. But Greece will also have to pull its own weight. Without its own currency, what is the best...
View ArticleA new shareholder for Nat’s coal curiosity
So, the billionaire Bakrie Brothers have sorted one of their debt issues. They have struck a deal to sell half of their stake in Nat Rothschild’s cash shell curiosity, Bumi Plc, to an Indonesian...
View ArticleA golden opportunity for the FTSE
On Tuesday we asked what rules should govern entry to the FTSE UK indices. We launched our consultation in response to a similar survey from the FTSE Group, which sought market feedback on the free...
View ArticleJennings sells the rest of RenCap
Moscow-based financier Stephen Jennings is finally giving up control of Renaissance Capital, the investment bank he founded 17 years ago, to his Russian billionaire partner Mikhail Prokhorov. More...
View ArticleOn Russian sanctions and Belgian beer…
Given that Russian subjects are reportedly being force fed a diet of Putin-esque mis-information over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, it seems worth noting what strategists employed by...
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A sovereign legal scorecard
First let’s start with a scatter chart, courtesy of Charles Robertson at Renaissance Capital. Click to enlarge… Continue reading: A sovereign legal scorecard
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