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Emerging & Frontier Markets

IMF Identifies Reasons For Markets’ Resilience

NEWSMAKERS: EMERGING MARKETS By Anita Hawser Rosy future: Emerging hubs such as Mumbai recovered fast As the dust continues to settle following the recent global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund is attempting to explain why so many emerging ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Lack Of Coordination Sets Stage For Regulatory Mayhem

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Anderson: Inconsistent regulation raises risks It’s official. Political leaders across the G20 group of countries are ready to make the banks pay for the financial crisis. At the G20 summit in Toronto toward ...

News

Midsize Companies Going Global — But Not Too Global

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES/ GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Midsize companies in the US are increasingly turning to overseas markets to boost their sales, but they are sticking to what they see as safe markets—those they understand, such as Canada ...

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Prime Minister Attempts To Break With Party’s Troubled Past

NEWSMAKERS: JAPAN By Thomas Clouse Naoto Kan: Redefining government's strategy Japan elected its fifth prime minister in four years in June, with the lower house of parliament selecting finance minister Naoto Kan to take over leadership of the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

RBS Branch Sale Sets Off Banking Battle

NEWSMAKERS: PAKISTAN By Nick Kochan Key player: Former central banker, Syed Salim Raza When a struggling Royal Bank of Scotland asked for bids last year for its 79-branch network in Pakistan—acquired as part of ABN AMRO in 2007—it had ...

Award Winners

Slow Take-Off

READERS' CHOICE AWARDS By Paula L. Green Best Hotels & Airlines Business travel is slowly recovering from a recession-induced slump. The corporate clampdown on travel budgets that began during the global recession is gradually easing, and ...

Banking

Gulf Report: Exchanges Enrich Technology

MARKET MAKERS Exchanges Upgrade Technology And Add New Products By Gordon Platt Financial markets across the Gulf region are working hard to enhance the breadth and depth of services they offer. Financial markets in the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Airline And Telecom Mergers Heat Up

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Consolidation in the US airline and global telecom industries has kept merger activity going in the past few months. The proposed merger of United Airlines, based in Chicago, ...

Award Winners

Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2010

ANNUAL SURVEY —BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDERS 2010 Joining The Chain Gang By Anita Hawser The leading players in the supply chain finance business demonstrate the benefits of innovation and commitment to a growing market. A ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Books Excerpt: Losing Control

BOOKS —LOSING CONTROL By Stephen D. King The world is witnessing a massive redistribution of wealth as the West learns it can no longer live beyond its means, says HSBC's group chief economist Stephen D. King, author of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

China’s Currency Move Creates Winners And Losers

Emerging Markets Investor: News By Gordon Platt The People’s Bank of China last month announced that it would allow the renminbi to trade more flexibly, bringing an end to the currency’s two-year-old peg to the dollar. While any ...

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Drowning In Debt

COVER STORY: AFTER THE BAILOUT The turmoil in Greece and the subsequent rout of the euro have rattled global markets and caused a renewed bout of hand-wringing over the stability of the global economy. Some believe the developed markets ...