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BEST INTERNET BANK AWARDS 2014 | INTERVIEW WITH THE WINNERS
Global Finance speaks with Citi, DBS, Finecobank, and Standard Chartered on the Internet Banking landscape.
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Award Ceremonies and Events
BEST INTERNET BANKS AWARDS CEREMONY 2014
<strong>Global Finance</strong> held its 11th annual Internet Banks Awards dinner in New York in November. Leading financial executives from around the world were present to accept their awards and honor other recipients.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
CEE: STRUCTURAL REFORMS NEEDED
<strong>Central & Eastern Europe | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
Central and Eastern Europe has come a long way in the past 25 years, but the region must overcome some significant obstacles in 2015—particularly as Russia’s conflict with Ukraine continues.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHANGING ECONOMIC CLIMATE OF EMERGING MARKETS
<strong>Seeking A New Paradigm | Emerging Markets Growth</strong><br />
To ascertain whether emerging markets is an obsolete term, we must first understand what it means.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
CHINA EASES INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
<strong>China | Milestones</strong><br />
China will allow foreign firms to increase their ownership stakes in encouraged sectors and enter into previously protected industries, according to investment guidelines drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Banking
Deepening Africa’s Financial Markets
<strong>Africa | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
African economies are well on their way to transforming the region’s status from a frontier to an emerging market. The IMF predicts Africa will grow by 5.8% in 2015, up from 5.1% this year, with Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique projected to growth over 8%.
Banking
ECB STRESS TESTS FAIL THE CREDIBILITY TEST
<strong>European Banking | Trends</strong><br />
The degree to which the recent stress tests of big European banks by EU regulators lack credibility is becoming clear.<br />
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
EDITOR’S LETTER: REDEFINING EMERGING MARKETS
For many years <strong>Global Finance </strong>has regularly covered emerging markets and frontier markets. This annual issue of the magazine, which is focused on the EM, goes a bit further. We analyze these markets regionally, but we also question the prevalent definition of emerging markets.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET FACES CULTURAL CHANGE IN WAKE OF FIXING SCANDAL
<strong>Foreign Exchange | Capital Markets</strong><br />
How to take the gaming instinct out of foreign exchange traders has become the order of the day, following last month’s imposition of $4.3 billion in fines on six global banks for manipulating currency benchmarks.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
HUNGARY: PROTESTS FORCE PM TO SHELVE INTERNET TAX
<strong>Hungary | Milestones</strong><br />
Hungary has witnessed the biggest street protests since the current right-wing government came to power in 2010, against the government’s plans to tax Internet traffic, the world’s first such levy.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
IMPROVING ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY
<strong>Asia-Pacific | Emerging Markets Regional Review</strong><br />
Structural changes in emerging Asia’s manufacturing-for-export markets are erasing the low-cost advantage.
Banking
ING COMPLETES BAILOUT REPAYMENT
<strong>Netherlands | Milestone</strong><br />
As a part of the restructuring agreement between ING, the Dutch government and the European Commission, ING agreed to several of what it called “bans,” according to an email sent by a company spokesman to Global Finance