News
Features : Mergers Make Slow Comeback
Caution is the watchword in a sluggish market for corporate takeovers. Throughout last year, observers of international M&A; predicted a...
News & Features Archive
Join the global community of corporate and public-sector finance industry leaders reading Global Finance monthly in print.
Click Here
News
Features : The Man Who Wired Russia
A Russian programmer spotted a gaping hole in the market. First, lets get the clichs out of the way. Anatoly...
Banking
Features : World’s Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers
Global Finance selects the worlds best. The real-time global settlement process took a major leap forward in September 2002, when...
News
Milestones : Accounting Board Puts Options Expensing On Front Burner
UNITED STATES Mandatory expensingusing flawed valuation modelswill lead to inaccurate and misleading information for investors. Ken Wasch, SIIA The norwalk,...
News
Milestones : Dubai Drags
DUBAI Which are braverbankers or rugby players? The planners behind the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) must hope the former....
News
Milestones : Nasdaq’s Cold Welcome
GERMANY Almost all stock exchanges are currently listless, but few are listingless. On March 21, however, Nasdaq Deutschland was launched...
News
Milestones : Rich Pickings
UNITED KINGDOM Troubled UK telecoms group Marconi had its long-term credit rating cut to D in March, warned that its...
News
Newsmakers : Bad Timing
TURKEY Whos afraid of war? Certainly not the 200 brave souls who packed into the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul to...
News
Newsmakers : Norwegian Cuckoo
NORWAY The sizes of our stakes in global companies have increased, and so we will gain from being more active....
News
Newsmakers : Oxley Back In The News
UNITED STATES No one can accuse Representative Michael Oxley, the Ohio Republican of Sarbanes- Oxley fame, of shunning the media...
News
Newsmakers : Singapore Sling
SINGAPORE Whether theyre jumping or being pushed, a steady stream of executives are leaving their posts at Singapore Inc. Most...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bidders Queuing Up For British Grocer
EUROPE William Morrison Supermarkets touched off a bidding war for rival British supermarket chain Safeway with an offer valued at...