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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Special Report: Asset Nationalization

WAKE-UP CALL By Laurence Neville The expropriation of private assets in Argentina and Bolivia are a stark reminder of the risk of doing business in developing markets. Nationalization of the political sort—as opposed to pragmatism designed to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management: Bank Payment Obligations

BANKING ON BPOS By Paula L. Green Bank Payment Obligations could change the way that companies manage their global supply chains, making it easier and safer to work with new suppliers in risky markets. But acceptance takes time. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management: E-Invoicing

NOVEL SOLUTIONS By Paula L. Green E-invoicing is taking a quantum leap forward. New solutions help companies tackle age-old issues, such as how to stay compliant in an ever more complex regulatory landscape. Electronic invoices are helping ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management: Liquidity Management

THE NEW ONE-STOP SHOP By Rebecca Brace Liquidity management is the latest corporate treasury process to get the one-stop-shop treatment by big banks and solution vendors. A few years have passed since the financial crisis propelled liquidity ...

News

The Fate Of Europe In The Balance

NEWSMAKERS: FRANCE By Luca Ventura French president-elect François Hollande is a flag-bearer for adding growth incentives to a European fiscal agreement, rather than just doling out austerity measures. Hollande elated at defeating Sarkozy Photo Credit : SKPHOTOGRAPHY / Shutterstock.com ...

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The Still-Seamy Underbelly Of Energy Trading

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt As the tide went out for natural gas prices, it revealed that the seamy underbelly of the energy-trading business hasn’t changed a great deal since the days of Enron. McClendon ran a hedge ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2012: Country Awards

By Anita Hawser Algeria Banque Al Baraka D’Algérie Saudi-owned, Bahrain-based banking group Al Baraka first ventured into this North African country in the early 1990s. Being the first to offer Islamic banking in the country carries with it a ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2012: Overall Winners

By Anita Hawser Best Sukuk Bank Maybank With Malaysia accounting for more than 70% of total global sukuk issued, Maybank spearheaded a number of major deals. For the period under review it recorded 23 deals made up of 133 ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2012: Regional Awards

By Anita Hawser Gulf Cooperation Council Al Rajhi Bank Considered to be the Saudi Arabian kingdom’s biggest Islamic lender, Al Rajhi Bank matched that credential with one of the best performances among Saudi banks in terms of net profitability. ...

Award Winners

THE WINNERS’ CIRCLE

Global FinanceannouncesThe Winners’ CircleA ranking of the Top Winners of our Annual Awards over the magazine’s 25-year history NEW YORK, June...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management 2012

Awards

Project & Infrastructure Finance Awards 2012

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