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Features : Novartis Writes a Transatlantic Prescription
A CFO is at the heart of change in a Swiss icon. Its the day after the companys annual results...
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Features : Rating Agencies On Watch
With a global reach but only three primary players, the powerful credit-rating business may finally be getting an overhaul and...
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Features : Sony’s New Board Game
The Japanese blue chip is leading a makeover of the way that countrys companies are governed. When Japans Sony announced...
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Features : Sub-Custodians Ease Into the Spotlight
Local knowledge is important, but tech requirements are prompting consolidation in the world of sub-custodians. Stephen Brown, regional network manager...
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Features : World’s Best Companies Awards
On January 28 representatives from Global Finances Worlds Best Companies gathered in New Yorks Palace Hotel for an award ceremony.This...
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Milestones : Fast Track For Inflation Bonds
FRANCE Whoever it was who said that inflation was dead forgot to tell bond investors. Theyre snapping inflation-linked bonds as...
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Milestones : Indexing Islam
UNITED STATES As timings go, it could be better.With the United States preparing for war in Iraq, financial information provider...
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Milestones : Prophet With Profits
We have always been run along business principles. Eitan Raff, chairman of Bank Leumi, the bank founded by Thedor Herzl...
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Milestones : Ubs Combines Its Forces
SWITZERLAND Is this, finally, the future of private banking? UBS, the Swiss bank that runs the worlds leading private banking...
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Newsmakers : Back To The Future At The Bank Of Japan
JAPAN Toshihiko Fukui Call it the revenge of the old guard. The late February nomination of Toshihiko Fukui as the...
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Newsmakers : Blood In The Aisles
THE NETHERLANDS When Icarus flew too close to the sun and melted the wax on his artificial wings, he plummeted...
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Newsmakers : Fridman’s New Frontier
“As businessmen we are pretty young, and so we havent many traditions of corporate behavior as a country. RUSSIA Mikhail...