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.
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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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
A selection of winners from Global Finance’s awards program over the past year.
Banking
BOTÍN: GROOMED FOR SUCCESS
NEWSMAKERS | SPAIN<br />
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.
Banking
BRIDGING THE CHASM
MARKET REPORT | ISLAMIC TRADE FINANCE<br />
Offering inventory financing to commodity traders brings much-needed liquidity to the Islamic trade finance market.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
CEMENTING REGIONAL TIES
AFRICA 2014 | UNITY<br />
Africa’s dream of greater economic unity is gradually becoming a reality, with plans to establish a free-trade area spanning eastern and southern African countries well under way. Yet it could take time for the associated economic and trading benefits to play out.