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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Generic Drug Blockbusters Timed For Yearly Release

Company To Watch: Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories/india By GP Hyderabad-based Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, India’s second-biggest pharmaceutical company, is a major global supplier of generic drugs. It has developed a strategic plan to increase its market share in the United ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Portfolio Flows Resume Into Emerging Europe

News By Gordon Platt Investors are pumping fresh money on a sustained basis into equity funds investing in emerging Europe, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts-based EPFR Global. In the week ended September 2, emerging Europe equity funds took in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Trading In Depositary Receipts Sets Record

Dr News By GP A record of more than 72 billion American and global depositary receipts changed hands in the...

Award Winners

Features : Best In Class 2009

A selection of Global Finance’s best bank awards from the past year. BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS BEST SUB-CUSTODIANS BEST ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BEST TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT PROVIDERS BEST TRADE FINANCE ...

Award Winners

Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2009

During one of the toughest years on record, the world’s central bankers were tested as never before. Contributors: Gordon Platt, Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Dan Keeler It is clear that 2009 is not a year on which ...

Banking

Features : World’s Biggest Banks

Global Finance ranks the world’s 50 biggest banks, as measured by total assets. By Dan Keeler This past year has seen a stunning reversal in the fortunes of the world’s biggest banks. After a flurry of eye-popping write-offs ...

Country Report

Features: Country Report: China

THE NEXT GREAT LEAP FORWARD Ample liquidity and a bold government stimulus package have catapulted China past stumbling rival economies. By Thomas Clouse China is showing few symptoms of an economic crisis. While many of the world’s ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Spotlight: Business Continuity

Preparing For The Worst Multinationals are reassessing their business continuity plans as the global economic turmoil continues. By Paula L. Green In an increasingly intertwined business world with far-flung supply chains stretching across myriad time zones and ...

Banking

Features: World’s Safest Banks

THE WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS 2009 Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies. By Dan Keeler After two tumultuous years that saw many of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones: Global Currency Could Smooth Out Volatility

Global Anita Hawser Hillier-Brook: Currency already has potential users The campaign to depose the dollar as the global reserve currency...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones: Governments Begin To Unwind Stimulus Programs

Global Gordon Platt London: G-20 members agree to greater coordination The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed at a meeting in London on September 5 that it was far too early to begin unwinding ...

News

Newsmakers: Economic Gloom Deepens As Honduras Crisis Continues

Honduras Antonio Guerrero Zelaya: Garnering interna tional supprt After Honduran soldiers stormed leftist president Manuel Zelaya’s home in June and he fled into exile, many speculated the Central American nation’s economy was poised for growth. After all, Zelaya ...