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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Sri Lanka Lures Foreign Direct Investments

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombo.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

IMF | WORLD BANK – 2014 ANNUAL MEETINGS

Global Finance—official media partner of the IMF/World Bank 2014 annual meetings seminars—provides daily coverage and live streaming of events as around 13,000 people gather to appraise the health of the world’s economy.

Features

China’s Legal Reform Is Front and Center

Some discrepancy exists between the rules that are written and those that are enforced. This is true for most places in the world, and China is no exception.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

A Small Step to Unlock Credit for the Club Med

This month the European Central Bank will start to buy euro-denominated asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds in an effort to revive a market that has been sharply impaired since the financial crisis.

Supplement

Africa Supplement 2014

Though Africa has experienced impressive growth for well over a decade now, domestic markets and intraregional economic relations have remained constrained, with national economies driven primarily by mounting foreign demand for the continent’s natural resources and commodity exports. Today, however, things appear to be changing.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

CENTRAL BANKS: WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE

The central banker’s job today is certainly difficult. But it had better not be impossible.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

IMF/WORLD BANK ISSUE—INTRODUCTION

Global Finance presents its annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank issue, in conjunction with the organizations’ annual meetings, taking place in Washington, D.C., in early October.

Editor's Letter

THE IMF OLYMPICS

Dear Reader The annual meetings in Washington, D.C., of the IMF and the World Bank afford a unique mix of events where economic forecasts are made, meetings held, official statements delivered, and award ceremonies (including Global Finance's Best Banks) conducted.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

AFRICA’S CONSUMER BOOM

AFRICA 2014 | INTRA-AFRICA TRADE The rise of the African consumer market is providing an opportunity for domestic companies to increase their footprint across the region.

Banking

BANK INTRODUCES FINGER VEIN BIOMETRICS TO DETER FRAUDSTERS

MILESTONES | UNITED KINGDOM Technology derived from medical scanning is being used by a UK bank in the fight against cybercrime and identity fraud.

Award Winners

BEST IN CLASS

ANNUAL SURVEY | WORLD’S BEST BANKS A selection of winners from Global Finance’s awards program over the past year.

Banking

BOTÍN: GROOMED FOR SUCCESS

NEWSMAKERS | SPAIN Less than 24 hours after the sudden death, in September, of her father Emilio Botín, widely recognized as one of the shrewdest, most successful bankers in modern history, Ana Patricia Botín was unanimously named by the board to take the helm of Banco Santander, an institution that has been under the control of her family for three generations.