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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Saudi Said To Approve Stock Licenses For Citi And Ashmore
Capital Markets | Banking Licenses
Saudi Arabia cracked open the door to direct investments in its stock market by qualified foreign institutions in June, when HSBC became the first foreign firm to receive a license.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Shareholder Activism Is Coming To A Boardroom Near You
Management | Corporate Boards
Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Some FX with your M&A?
Cross Rates: An unprecedented wave of cross-border mergers and acquisitions is driving demand—and rates—for foreign currencies.
Award Winners
Stars of China 2015
As the renminbi gains international acceptance, Chinese firms look further afield for growth.
Banking
Status Symbols For Safety
This issue of the magazine focuses once again on Global Finance's ranking of the Safest Banks. Not just the safest banks in the world, in the emerging markets, or the safest commercial banks, but also in each of more than 100 countries.
Banking
Staying Safe With The Award Winners
Global Finance interviews senior executives from some of the banks featured in this year’s World’s Safest Banks rankings.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
The Levant Uncovers A Few Surprises
Some green shoots lurk beneath the region’s raging civil wars, economic woes and political unrest.
Awards
Top 50 Safest Global Banks 2015
With financial markets strengthening in most quarters, a stellar credit rating—not just a solid one—is now required to gain a place on our list of the World’s Top 50 Safest Global Banks.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
TPP Achieved, Passage In Congress Is Next Step
USA: After years of talks, 12 Pacific Rim nations, from Vietnam to Peru to the United States, reached an agreement in early October to create a vast, new trade bloc called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Award Ceremonies and Events
Transaction Processing Awards Ceremony 2015
Global Finance held its annual Transaction Processing Awards ceremony in Singapore in October, during SWIFT’s annual Sibos conference. Leading financial executives from banks were present to accept their awards and honor other recipients.
Banking
Turning On The Liquidity Tap For SMEs In Europe
Capital Markets | Business Funding
In 1957, when the Treaty of Rome was signed and the European Economic Community was established, it was the first milestone in the long path toward free circulation of goods, capital, services and people among European countries.