Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Declining Consensus
For the past couple of years much international economic debate has focused on issues of growth and austerity, while regulatory debate has focused on Basel III and systemic risks...
Author: Andrea Fiano
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: BRIC By BRIC
The outgoing president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, recently made a statement that we consider particularly relevant to our readers...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Ratings And Reform
This month we look at ratings and ratings agencies in two different, and only apparently contrasting, ways...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Roundtable: Taiwan
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH By Andrea Fiano At a roundtable in Taipei, Global Finance brought together key figures in Taiwan's banking and finance industry to discuss how new cross-strait trade opportunities will support this export-driven economy. Andrea ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s Letter: Elections, Austerity And Uncertainty
In deciding to focus on elections worldwide for this month's cover story, we weren't just pondering their political implications and the relative uncertainty they occasion, we were also considering the global nature and impact of uncertainty in a single national election...
Awards
WORLD’S 50 SAFEST BANKS 2012
Global Finance announces a half-yearly update World’s 50 Safest Banks: April 2012 NEW YORK, March 1, 2012 Bank stability is...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Editor’s letter: The Europe Effect
For months now public debate around the world has been dominated by the turmoil in Europe...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Lingering Risks
Europe may be the center of attention at the start of the new year, but it is certainly not the only area of the world that worries economists and policymakers...
Editor's Letter
Between Aid And Contagion
Who would have predicted that the Europeans would try to get financial support from China, Portugal would try to get investment from Brazil, French banks could try for funding from Russia, or that the US administration would criticize the “lack of action” in Europe as a way to divert attention from its own problems?
Editor's Letter
Crisis And Cooperation
The sovereign debt crisis in Europe and economic slowdown in other developed countries have forced dramatic fiscal and economic measures and several increasingly harsh rescue plans in countries around Europe...
Banking
Best In Class In Times Of Turmoil
When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have their annual meeting in Washington DC at the end of September, the atmosphere will most probably be very tense...
Editor's Letter
Slow Growth And Ratings
Once again the month of August has brought turbulence to the financial markets...