Banking
Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Ultimate Guessing Game
Changing fortunes in the region’s oil-rich economies have made the secretive world of sovereign wealth fund asset allocation even more opaque.
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Features
Taiwan Roundtable: Ready To Manage The Risks
Taiwan is facing a challenging year, according to participants in a Global Finance roundtable in Taipei. But sound regulation has made banks resilient, and the mood is still upbeat.
Features
Taiwan: Bring It On
Taiwan’s new president and its banks face a tough market and a changing economic picture. They’re ready.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Taking The Long View: Crises Demand Attention, But So Do Long-Term Trends.
Corporate leaders can be forgiven for not thinking too far ahead. The length of time that investors hold stock has fallen. Share-holders want fast rewards—and quick fixes when performance flags. Moreover, given the upheavals and macroeconomic uncertainties of the past decade, many CEOs and CFOs have been preoccupied with firefighting.
Editor's Letter
The Long View
Working at a modern media outlet with a website, Twitter feed and the rest of it, we at Global Finance easily get caught up in the tumult of fresh content.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Treasurers On A Wild Ride
Foreign exchange volatility is a major headache for corporates, but with strategic planning it’s possible to enjoy the ride.
Award Winners
Winners Profile | Best Investment Banks 2016
Profiling the winners of the Best Investment Banks 2016
Award Winners
World’s Best Investment Banks 2016
The best banks see falling stock prices as an opportunity to finance takeovers with debt and sell bank equity to please regulators.
Features
P2P Scam Heightens Scrutiny Of Sector
Chinese authorities arrested executives from online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company eZubao in early February after the company stole an estimated $7.6 billion from 900,000 investors.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Activist Investors Target Banks
<strong>Management | Shareholder Activism</strong><br />
Activist investors are knocking more loudly at banks’ doors. According to Thomson Reuters data, in 2015, activists launched 97 campaigns aimed at the US financial sector, 22 of them targeting banks.
Award Winners
Africa Growth Spurs Advances: Patrick Gutmann, Ecobank
Return To Coverage Global Finance: What are the the challenges for corporates dealing with payments and collections in Africa? Patrick Gutmann: For many of our corporate customers, be those midsize local corporates or the big ones like Coca-Cola or ...