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Features : Check 21 Pushes Paper Checks Closer To Oblivion
New legislation paves the way for the elimination of the 40 billion checks in circulation in the US today. It...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Emerging Issuers Find Keys to Cheaper Funding
Experts in emerging markets corporate funding gathered at Global Finances offices to discuss the state of the markets. GLOBAL FINANCE:...
News
Features : Old Technique,New Appeal
While more glamorous instruments such as derivatives have stolen the limelight, insurance still has a crucial role to play in...
News
Features : Opportunities Abound For The Nimble Investor
RUSSIA Casual readers of the business press over the past year could be forgiven for thinking there is only one...
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Milestones : Us Consumer Remains A Beacon Of Hope In A Gloomy World
UNITED STATES High oil prices and weak job creation are creating worries about a potential slowing in US and global...
News
Newsmakers : Central Bank Chief Rattled By Allegations Of Disharmony
PHILIPPINES Rafael Buenaventu-ra, governor of the central bank of the Philippines, is one of the few repeat A-grade winners in...
News
Newsmakers : Fox Wins Kudos For Transparency Gains
MEXICO Mexican President Vicente Fox, who won office on an anti-corruption platform in 2000, got a pat on the back...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Corporate Bonds The Americas
Rainbow National Offering Clears Way for Spin-Off Rainbow National Services, the programming subsidiary of Bethpage, New York-based Cablevision Systems, sold...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global Depositary Receipts Europe
Royal Bank of Scotland Issues Preference Shares Royal Bank of Scotland, the second-largest bank in the UK, issued $925 million...
Corporate Finance :Foreign Exchange The Americas
Strong-Dollar Policy May Survive Election The official currency policy of the US administration in the years ahead will continue to...
Corporate Finance :Mergers & Acquisitions
ASIA Bidding War Erupts For Japanese Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Financial made a $29 billion hostile bid for UFJ Holdings, which...
Banking
Cover Story : World’s Best Banks
THE WORLDS BEST GLOBAL BANKS A growing global economy made it some-what easier to be a banker in the past...