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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global IPO Pipeline Filling Up Quickly
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/ DRS By Gordon Platt Companies based in China and India dominated global initial public offerings in the first three quarters of 2010, and now the US is getting ready to join the new-equity ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global: Basel III Debate Over Trade Finance
NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Nivison: Trade is different When the new Basel III capital adequacy proposals were announced back in the summer, some members of the banking community breathed a sigh of relief as the timeline for ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Global: G20’s Mantra Covers Big Differences
MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Comic relief: G20 leaders laugh despite deficit deadlock At last month's Seoul summit of the G20—or the G19+1, as one senior Asian central bank official recently dubbed it—the US was isolated from the ...
Banking
Global: World Bank’s Environment Valuation
NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Dan Keeler Zoellick: Promoting fair value of ecosystems In an attempt to help countries calculate the true value of their natural assets, the World Bank has launched a project that will create an ecosystem valuation ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
QE2 Boosts Cross-Border M&A Deals
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITION By Gordon Platt Growing risk appetite triggered a sudden burst of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in October, as investors prepared for a second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, from the Federal ...
Features
Regional Report: Southern Europe
COVER STORY: LIVING ON THE EDGE By Laurence Neville Southern Europe's sovereign debt crisis may appear to have been resolved, but severe trials still lie ahead—particularly for Greece. The travails of Southern Europe—in particular Spain, Portugal and ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Rise Of Integrated Expense Management
TOOLBOX: CORPORATE CREDIT CARDS By Denise Bedell Businesses discover the benefits of linking corporate card programs with other parts of the physical and financial supply chain. As automated expense management solutions become ever more integrated with other ...
News
Russia: Former Yukos Chief Gets More Jailtime
NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Khodorkovsky: Sentence likely to be extended After months of wrangling, the verdict on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia's Yukos Oil Company, is due in mid-December. The ex-tycoon ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
The Great Divide
ANALYSIS: GLOBAL GROWTH By Laurence Neville As companies thrive while countries struggle, a split seems to be emerging between macroeconomic and corporate performance. Observers of the global economy could be forgiven for being a little confused of ...
Award Winners
The World’s Best Derivatives Providers
ANNUAL SURVEY: A NEW STATUS QUO By Michael Shari The landscape of leading derivatives providers is being reshaped largely by a preference for low commissions and a newfound fear of having American banks as counterparties. It would ...
Award Ceremonies and Events
World’s Best Internet Bank Awards Ceremony 2010
DATE: NOVEMBER 2, 2010 LOCATION: HARVARD CLUB, NEW YORK Representatives of most of the first-round winners of Global Finance 's World's Best Internet Banks awards came together on November 2 at the Harvard Club in New York for ...