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...
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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 ...
Banking
Newsmakers: Geithner Presses For Controls On Banks’ Risk-Taking
United States/Global By Gordon Platt Geithner: There should be no return to business as usual It looks like there could be significant reform of the global banking system after all. US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner pushed for meaningful ...
News
Newsmakers: Potential Lula Successor Clears Legal Hurdle
Brazil Antonio Guerrero Palocci: Stillfacing more corruption allegatio ns Former Brazilian finance minister Antonio Palocci has won a political victory after the country‘s Supreme Court dismissed charges that he violated bank secrecy laws. The ruling could put Palocci, ...