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Features : The Best Emerging Market Banks 2004

Emerging markets are poised to post their strongest growth in 20 years. Global Finance has picked the banks in 73...

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As it prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary, the African Development Bank finds itself at the heart of a debate...

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Internet-based telecom technology has come of age and is now providing businesses with quantifiable benefits. Its tax season and the...

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GLOBAL The American Bankers Association and the European Banking Federation have joined with their counterparts in Canada and Australia to...

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INDIA It may be robust but the Indian banking system is anything but fast. Even checks paid within Mumbai (Bombay),...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EMERGING MARKETS Enrique V. Iglesias The stars appear to have aligned in favor of the emerging markets. Strong growth, easing...

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SOUTH KOREA Lee Hun-Jae The South Korean won suffered its biggest decline since November on news that the progovernment Uri...

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MEXICO Guillermo Prieto Trevio, president of the Mexican Stock Exchange, picked a good time to come to New York to...

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UNITED STATES/CHINA Tim Halter Chinese companies that trade on US stock markets offer some comfort to investors seeking to catch...

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UNITED STATES Alan Greenspan No matter how careful he is with his words, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is going...

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SRI LANKA Mahinda Rajapakse Sri Lankas newly appointed finance minister Sarath Amunugama and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse have already gone...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS Comcast, the biggest cable-TV operator in the US, made an unsolicited offer to buy Walt Disney, the American...