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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : St. Paul, Travelers to Merge In $16 Billion Stock Deal

THE AMERICAS St. Paul Companies and Travelers Property Casualty definitively agreed to merge in a $16.1 billion stock-swap transaction that...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : US Accounting Rules Trip Up Foreign Issuers

THE AMERICAS In the past two years, foreign issuers of securities have agreed to pay a total of about $700...

News

Cover Story : All Change

New banking regulations could have as profound an effect on global businesses as any of the recently drafted codes of...

Editor's Letter

Editor’s Letter : Brave New World

In this issue we bring together a number of disparate stories from around the world, including Brazil, Russia, the United States and Western Europe...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Brazil Emerges From the Shadows

Global Finance brought together some of the key players in Brazil Day 2003 in a roundtable to discuss the state...

News

Features : Bringing Brazil to Wall Street

In late November a group of executives from the top Brazilian companies visited New York City in order to bring...

News

Features : Online Business Invoicing Gathers Pace

Offerings get more sophisticated and better integrated with financing. The much-anticipated world of business presenting and viewing invoices online and...

News

Features : The Russian Roller

The climate for investment in Russia has cooled since the Kremlin began an offensive on the countrys leading oligarch. But...

News

Features : To Bail or Not To Bail

Managers of corporate 401(k) plans invested in US mutual funds have been closely watching the emerging scandals. Corporate financial executives...

Special Section

Features : When Doing The Right Thing Provides A Pay-off

The corporate world is still searching for definitive proof that corporate responsibility paysand now the evidence is piling up. For...

News

Milestones : “A currency bloc including Japan and China could be created by the end of the decade, ultimately leading to a currency union.”

ASIA JAPAN EASING CHINA DOWN ROAD TO ASIAN CURRENCY BLOC As Japan and China increase their economic ties, currency issues...

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Newsmakers : “The Treasury and Justice Departments have fallen nearly a year behind in developing a plan to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.”

SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, UNITED STATES LOSING THE WAR ON TERRORIST FINANCING Bank secrecy is on the rise in Europe, while the...