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Asian Private Banking: Where The Money Is

ASIAN SOPHISTICATES By Michael Shari Do Asian private banks have the complexity to outshine their Swiss counterparts and attract the vast private wealth reserves growing in the East? After a formal apology by the Swiss Bankers Association for wrong conduct ...

Features

Brazils next Central Banker?

The bank's chief economist believes Brazil is more vulnerable to QE III's eventual end than other countries in Latin America.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BRICs Sink In Change Ranking

MILESTONES By Paula L Green It doesn’t seem to matter how rich a country may be. Or the number of...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China/Ukraine: Mutual Attractions

MILESTONES By Luca Ventura With a fifth of the worlds population but only 9% of its land, China in recent...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

China: A Man, A Plan, A Canal

NEWSMAKERS By Erik Heinrich Wang Jing is a man who likes to think bighis is the kind of grandiose thinking...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Debt Hits The Heights

CORPORATE FINANCE FOCUS By Gordon Platt Apples $17 billion corporate bond offering in April was the largest in history at...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Life And Pensions Rebound

RISK MANAGEMENT By Karen Kroll Corporate life and pensions insurance is regaining strength as economic conditions improve. The US market for corporate- and bank-owned life insurance (COLI and BOLI, respectively) and corporate supplemental pension plansor top hat plansare once again ...

Banking

Cover Story: Chinas Third Revolution

WHAT SECTORS WILL GAIN? By Arthur Clennam With its new leadership, China is changing. And with transformation comes opportunity. Reform...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: All Eyes On The Big Players

DEAR READER NOVEMBER 2013 | VOL. 27 NO. 10 A few months ago nobody would have expected the United States...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: Coming Out Party

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Led by growth companies in the technology and healthcare sectors, investor returns on initial...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Foreign Exchange 2013: Corporate FX Technology

VOLATILE TIMES: GETTING A GRIP ON RISK By Rob Daly Corporate treasurers now have ever-more-sophisticated tools to help get a handle on currency exposures and manage increasingly volatile FX market risk. It has been interesting times for currency exchange rates, ...

Banking

Foreign Exchange 2013: Global Reserves Diversification

EMERGING STATUS By Gordon Platt Emerging markets currencies are beginning to get some respect from central banks. The Federal Reserves decision to delay tapering its monetary stimulus has provided a temporary boost to emerging markets currencies and financial markets. And ...