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BIGGEST BANKS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2010
Global Finance ranks the 10 Biggest Banks in the Middle East NEW YORK, December 6, 2010 As the world’s key...
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Call for entries: World’s Best Investment Bank Awards 2011
World’s Best Investment Bank Awards 2011 In April 2011, Global Finance will publish its selections for World’s Best Investment Banks....
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Argentina: Unease With Profit-Sharing Plan
NEWSMAKERS: ARGENTINA By Antonio Guerrero Kirchner: Hoping to mend fences with the unions A controversial profit-sharing bill submitted to Congress by Argentina's ruling coalition is becoming a proxy fight between the nation's labor and business sectors ahead ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Azerbaijan: Investors Cheer Elections
MILESTONES: AZERBAIJAN By Justin Keay Baku: Enjoying the fruits of Azerbaijan's mineral wealth Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in early November ended in controversy, with critics claiming the opposition parties were prevented from being able to properly challenge Yeni Azerbaijan, ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Asia
WINNERS: ASIA Best Commodity Derivatives Provider Macquarie Australia's Macquarie Group finances producers of a wide variety of commodities and has a reputation for producing the most astute research on commodities, particularly on metals and mining in Asia. Two years ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Europe
WINNERS: EUROPE Best Commodity Derivatives Provider Morgan Stanley Despite attempts by competitors to nibble at its market share when commodities prices were soaring in 2009, Morgan Stanley has maintained its dominant position in commodities derivatives in Europe thanks to ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Exchanges
WINNERS: EXCHANGES Achievement Award ICE Long before derivatives reform was on the regulatory agenda, the Intercontinental Exchange in Atlanta was well on the way to achieving what regulators hope to accomplish with new rules—an unprecedented level of transparency in ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Latin America
WINNERS: LATIN AMERICA Best Derivatives Provider Société Générale Few other banks can claim as vast and deep a reach across the fragmented continent of Latin America—and across all classes of financial derivatives—as Société Générale. This is partly a function ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: Middle East
WINNERS: MIDDLE EAST Best Derivatives Provider HSBC HSBC has become the preferred derivatives dealer in the Middle East, which endured an even more pronounced credit crunch than other regions. The bank took clients away from Standard Chartered, the only ...
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Best Derivatives Providers: North America
WINNERS: NORTH AMERICA Best Commodity Derivatives Provider Goldman Sachs In the wake of the credit crunch in 2007 and the stock market crash of 2008, hundreds of billions of dollars poured out of stocks and bonds and into commodities, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
BNY Mellon Signs Pacts In Shanghai, Singapore
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt BNY Mellon is helping to bring American depositary receipts (ADRs) to Singapore and exchange-trade funds (ETFs) based on its DR indexes to Shanghai. This will provide access for local investors ...
News
Burma: Elections Offer Few Answers
MILESTONES: BURMA By Thomas Clouse Suu kyi: Free at last Burma held its first election in two decades in early November. The winners of the election will take control of the government from the military, which has ruled ...