Features
Myanmar | Blank Slate For Foreign Investors
Frontier Markets Report | Myanmar is wide open in terms of investment prospects, and its opportunities are luring investors—despite the risks.
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Country Report
New Opportunities For Spanish Political Parties
Country Report | Spain
The era of absolute majorities in Spanish politics is over.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Nicola Sturgeon, A Scottish Thorn In David Cameron’s Side
United Kingdom | Many questions are still being asked about David Cameron’s dramatic win on May 7. How did opinion polls, which predicted a tight race between Conservatives and Labour and even a Labour win, get it so wrong?
Banking
Offshore Blues For Private Banking
Special Report | Private Banking
Offshore banking, the booking and management of assets outside an individual’s country of domicile, has taken a beating since the financial crisis.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Pension Fund Managers Assailed On Many Fronts
Special Report | Pensions & Benefits Management
Combating economic trends, regulators and even demographics, funds are forced to think outside the box.
Banking
Private Banking | Business Is Booming, Challenges Lurk
Special Report | Private Banking
The pace of global economic growth may have slowed since the financial crisis, but the creation and concentration of private financial wealth has revved up.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Record Korean Financing Set For Brazil Steel Plant
Capital Markets | Project Finance
Brazil’s multinational metals and mining group Vale has signed a $2.1 billion agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea.
Banking
Regional US Transaction Banks Walk A Fine Line
Special Report | U.S. Transaction Banking
Dealing with the regulatory complexities faced by their larger peers and without some of the flexibility of their smaller brethren, US regional transaction banks are building international partnerships and investing in best-of-breed technology platforms in order to win, and hold on to, corporate clients.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Regulators Increase Scrutiny Amid Surge In Global M&A
Capital Markets | M&A Antitrust
Antitrust authorities around the world are stepping up their merger-monitoring activities amid a boom in cross-border M&A. They’re increasingly requiring merging companies to divest assets to win approval for their deals. In some cases, complex requirements are causing corporates to abandon proposed combinations.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Renminbi | The Goal Of Convertibility
The European Union is still debating the nature of its common currency, the position of non-eurozone EU members like the UK, and the future of stressed eurozone countries like Greece. But the situation in other parts of the world is quite different.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Russian Trade, On A Roller Coaster, Looks Set For Big Changes
Trends | FX Commodities Q&A
Petr Grishin, head of macro research and chief economist for Eastern Europe at VTB Capital, discussed the ruble, oil prices and Russian trade with Global Finance.
Country Report
Spain | Pitfalls On The Road To Recovery
Country Report | Spain
Spain’s economic resurgence has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. But how sustainable is it, given structural inefficiencies, stubbornly high unemployment and the threat of external shocks?