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Award Winners

Best Developed Markets Banks Awards

TOP BANKS BOUNCE BACK After two dismal years, the banking industry in the world’s developed markets is flourishing again. By Laurence Neville The recovery of the financial markets from March 2009 (and earlier in the ...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter: Cause And Effect

Dear Reader April 2010 | Vol. 24 No.4 As Global Finance was going to press, the prime minister of Greece,...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Emerging Equity And Bond Fund Flows Rise

Investor: News By Gordon Platt Investor flows into emerging market bond funds passed the $5 billion mark for the year to date in the week ended March 10 after posting their biggest weekly inflow in more than a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Nectar Lifesciences’ GDR Raises Funds For Expansion

Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt Nectar Lifesciences, based in Chandigarh, India, makes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), generic drugs and phytochemicals, such as mint derivatives, including menthol. In order to expand its generic pharmaceutical business and build new ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Zhejiang Geely/China Can Chinese Carmaker Turn Volvo Around?

Investor: Company to watch By Gordon Platt Zhejiang Geely, China’s largest privately owned automaker, aims to nearly double Volvo’s annual global production if it succeeds in acquiring the Volvo Cars division of Ford Motor. The Chinese firm is ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features: Analysis – Accounting Standards

CONVERGENCE OR CONVERSION? Multinational corporations face a less confusing future as US and international groups work toward accounting standards convergence. By Amy E. Buttell After 15 long months, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Focus – Trade Finance

REBUILDING TRUST IN TRADE Trade finance is stabilizing, but caution is the watchword in an industry still reeling from the effects of the financial crisis. By Anita Hawser Throughout the financial crisis, trade finance, that ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Regional Report – Southeast Asia

A FORCED TO BE RECKONED WITH The economically vibrant nations of Southeast Asia are forging closer links—and creating a regional powerhouse in the process. By Thomas Clouse While the world has focused its attention ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Treasury & Cash Management – Liquidity Management

RISK AND REWARD Businesses are increasingly seeking to outsource parts of their accounting processes and discovering that contingency planning is...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

How Safe Is Your Safety Net?

INSURANCE FOCUS The fallout from the financial crisis is prompting risk managers to take a cold, hard look at their insurance providers. Many do not like what they see. By Paula L. Green Don’t let that ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Mapping The Bank Regulation Maze

COVER STORY: BANKING Bankers and regulators are beginning to lay out the future structure of the global financial industry. In the short term, it is set to be a deeply confusing place. By Nick Kochan It ...

Banking

Middle East Supplement: Bankers Survey A Changed Landscape

MIDDLE EAST: BANKING INDUSTRY Banks across the region learned many painful lessons during the crisis but have emerged stronger than ever. By Gordon Platt Financial institutions across the Middle East are carefully monitoring their loan portfolios ...