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Banking

Features : Changing The Game

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...

Award Winners

Features : Internet Leaders Think Strategically

WORLD'S BEST INTERNET BANKS In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best corporate/institutional and consumer Internet banks globally and in six regions. The best banks on the Internet have long treated ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Star Of The South

COUNTRY REPORT / BRAZIL Brazil’s commitment to developing biofuels is paying off handsomely. Investment is flooding in to other areas of the economy, too. José Sergio Gabrielli, CEO of Petrobras For the administration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula ...

Country Report

Features : The Wild East

RUSSIA Russia’s greatest strength could also turn out to be its biggest weakness. Skyscrapers go up as some of Russia’s surplus is invested in infrastructure projects Oil has been kind to Russia. In the past few years, as world ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Businesses Confirm That Green Begets Green

UK / GLOBAL Growing awareness: Firms see risk management benefits in going green Multinational corporations are waking up to the fact that being “green” is not just for environmentalists. That was the message that came out of a ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : DP World IPO Catapults Dubai Market Into The Limelight

DUBAI DP World’s flagship port operation in Jebel Ali, Dubai When DP World, the Dubai government-owned port giant that bought the UK’s P&O; in March 2006, lists at the end of November (still pending as this issue of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Integration Helps Firms Avert Risk

GLOBAL Firms are unprepared for risks such as terrorist attacks Major companies are still struggling to come to grips with risk management, despite recent high-profile events such as the September 11 attacks, the London bombings, the threat of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : The Prodigal Oil Producer

ECUADOR Correa: Clamping down on the oil industry After a 15-year absence, Ecuador has rejoined OPEC in a move president Rafael Correa says will allow his country to gain greater access to technical advice and market information. ...

News

Newsmakers : Global Finance Helps Bring Medical Aid To Indian Orphans

INDIA Children attending lessons at the Manjushree Orphanage On November 18, a team of doctors and support workers from Amrit Davaa, Global Finance’s partner charity, embarked on their mission to deliver sustainable medical care and food aid ...

News

Newsmakers : Miliband Urges EU To Open Door To More New Members

UNITED KINGDOM Miliband: The European Union should ontinue to expand to the east The United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, says that the European Union should gradually expand further into Eastern Europe, including Russia, as well as into ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China has approved a series of major IPOs in recent weeks in an attempt to cool its soaring stock markets by flooding them with a growing supply of new issues. The country’s main Shanghai index has ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Energy companies are fueling a merger boom in Europe, as the industry continues to restructure in response to liberalized markets and foreign competition. Investment bankers are welcoming the advisory fees from these huge deals at ...