Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features : Clear Path
SECTOR REPORT / TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT Large corporations are leaping at the chance to connect directly to the banks...
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Country Report
Features : Growth Pains
COUNTRY REPORT / CHINA China’s continuing economic expansion may be a bumpy ride, but the country’s prospects still look remarkably good. Reach for the skies: China’s newfound wealth is reflected in its grand plans for Shanghai and ...
Banking
Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead
ISLAMIC INVESTMENT BANKING Investor demand, banks’ creativity and deep pools of liquidity in the Middle East are driving strong growth in the development of Islamic investment banking products. Hassoune:“Investors and entrepreneurs must hare the risks and rewards of ...
Banking
Features : The Business Of Growth
SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE As they expand their own businesses, clients are demanding increasingly sophisticated services from their global custodians. GLOBAL FINANCE: How has the recent market volatility affected global custodians? JAY MARTIN , senior vice president, global custody regional ...
Award Winners
Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007
ANNUAL SURVEY / BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS The fourth annual Global Finance awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers comes at a time when derivatives are in the mainstream news as never before. The US subprime mortgage crisis has ...
News
Milestones : $100 Billion Bank Fund Buys Time For Treasury
UNITED STATES Hank Paulson: Eager for Uncle Sam to avoid bailing out major American banks. The United States Treasury in effect told the big American banks last month to clean up their own mess and not to look ...
News
Milestones : Challenges Grow In Run-Up To New Payment Rules
EUROPE Europe's payments landscape is set to change dramatically with market reforms. Banks and companies in other parts of the world are watching with interest as the deadline for radical transformation of the UK and Europe’s cross-border payments ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestones : Loonie Bests The Greenback For The First Time In More Than 30 Years
CANADA/UNITED STATES Piling up: The loonie posts record gains against the US dollar. Record prices for Canadian commodities have combined...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Venezuela’s Monetary Experiment
VENEZUELA Rodrigo Cabezas: New currency will help fight inflation. Venezuela is gearing up for the introduction of a new currency to replace the bolivar, in circulation since 1879, in a move the Hugo Chávez administration hopes will help ...
News
Newsmakers : Offshoring Industry Faces New Opponent: Its Clients
UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES Divett: Offshoring IT involves hidden costs. Offshoring information technology services is an emotive subject that incites mixed responses from most companies. Although Wall Street financial firms were among the early adopters of outsourcing, sending their ...
News
Newsmakers : US Shouldn’t Take Its Aaa Rating For Granted
UNITED STATES Nikola Swann: External imbalances put the dollar at risk of ratings downgrade. Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Nikola Swann says the dollar’s preeminent role in the world cannot be taken for granted. The greenback is still ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE As risk appetite returns to the global markets, the dollar could lose what little support it has gained from its role as a safe-haven currency during the recent period of turbulence, analysts ...